This is why Missouri made hunting hogs as a sport illegal. As long as some fool thinks he can make a buck, native ecosystems be damned, we will continue having problems.

The wild boar is not native to North America or North Carolina. The wild boar was believed to have been brought to North America by Christopher Columbus in 1493. The wild boar did not come to North Carolina until April 1912, when hunters brought 13 European boars to a game preserve at Hooper’s Bald in Graham County. By 1920, approximately 100 boars had escaped into the Great Smoky Mountains and established a wild breeding population. During the 1940s, a second release occurred, this one planned, in Green River Cove in Polk County.
Since then, feral farm hogs have interbred so that nowadays there is little to no Russian bloodline.

A few years ago a fella around Lincoln NE was going around stocking carp in ponds and lakes as he liked to catch them. I'm pretty sure he commited suicide the Hillary way.

Wld pork does not taste like the stuff you get at the grocery store. think of it like turkey. Why would ya go out hunting them if ya can get a ready plucked frozen one at Wally World?

The only time I've had wild boar was on a Disney cruise it was amazing. Much better than the store stuff

Well back to the title of this thread... I did date this one Paiute gal briefly...

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Ever had a hog hunt in a bar? Guys go invite an ugly girl to come sit at the table, then bail out and leave her with his buddies.

People that live where there are a lot of wild hogs have a little different opinion on them as table fare. It usually goes something like this “if you get them not much over a hundred pounds their not to bad to actually pretty good depending on what they are eating. Anything over 250 gets pretty rank pretty quick” This is from a man that killed 193 wild hogs in one year, and kills more than a few every year.
Also when you see piglets with stripes when they are young that is European genetics showing up.

This. Sows ain’t too bad up to 125-150 though. Boars 75 and below.
And if you don’t have hogs then count yourselves blessed. They may seem like they would be nice to have to hunt, and if you could get rid of them then they might be. They’re like an STD, once you got’em you’ve got’em for life! I killed 2 yesterday evening checking/resetting traps. We kill them anytime we see them, day or night.

I wish we had hogs here. A good population that stayed and grew. It would be fun!

Hah... I see you're quite the angler as well.

No, you really don't. They breed like rabbits and the females can reproduce as early as 4 months old. Their population curve assuming no mortality is staggeringly exponential. The USDA presentation on them is 2 million hogs in 7 years from.a single breeding pair assuming no mortality.