I’d be willing to bet you none of the “control trappers” released pigs for job security. There is nothing fun about pig trapping, unless you like driving t posts in rocky ground, dragging 16ft panels through tick and chigger infested poison ivy in 110 heat index and a million percent humidity and smelling like sour corn. Plus they already have a smart animal in rough terrain with a high reproductive rate and redneck morons that release them to hunt with dogs so they can get a big boar to take a picture with while leaving the sows for seed pigs.

They will put you under the jail for hauling a live one here in Bama. Hard to believe people pay good money to kill one of the nasty boogers. I killed three the other day with a 20 ga. and some buck shot and trapped one or two small ones that week. We also trap em for folks willing to pay. Their hanging out at the larger mud holes right now.

Supposedly the same in Georgia.

The legalese here is no movement of any type of pig without USDA health inspection and permit. Technically under state code all pigs are domestic in Georgia. So all pigs must fall under USDA rules.

Just curious...how far north into Missouri would you say that the feral hogs are common? I don't hear much about them all the way into southern Iowa, but I don't know where they fizzle out in MO.

I believe they now classify wild pigs as furbearers in Alabama. Not sure of the reason.

If they could put a 10$ bounty on every hog killed. Hog problems would slow way down

Not really. That was tried at Ft Benning. So much per tail. A whole bunch of tails were brought in but the numbers seemed to stay the same.
One of the biologists began to wonder and started visited local pig processors. None would talk to him but one dummy eventually spilled the beans. Hog "hunters" were buying up tails on their way to Benning.

Since it was a federal program on a federal installation the outcome was long term club fed stays for all involved.