We have them and we can't kill them fast enough. Shoot them and trap them (then shoot them).

even a domestic sow can be vicious monster when she has pigs

Like the others states, there are many no hunting areas and that's a big part of the problem. Since most of Texas is private land, you can hammer them and they and they just move to a no-hunting zone, breed and come back. If you shoot at every one you see and or use dogs, they will move to places that make their life much easier. If not they loose respect for humans, which appears in this case. Large scale trapping,catching the whole heard, thermal scopes and of course hunting is a big help. A silencer on a 300 black out is a great tool for the job. It's very quiet and you can get off several rounds.

That video was incredible!
The numbers of hogs were unbelievable. Some hogs were simply run over. I pray that they get them under control because if not already, this will soon be an issue with national consequences.
I recently read in an agricultural publication about a farmer who planted a couple fields that were very small in terms of Texas fields - only about 10 acres each. He planted corn using a large planter, so was in and out quickly. He monitored the fields. Within 24 hours both fields had been cleaned out by hogs. They walked down the rows and ate every kernel.
It sounds like if unchecked, this could reach the magnitude of Biblical plagues.

I've done my part. I go down there every winter for 3 days and kill as many as I can. I'm at almost 350 since 2010.

I raise a couple butcher hogs each year. I also raise chickens. I've had some hogs that would stalk and kill every chicken that got into their pen. It doesn't take any imagination for me to see feral hogs stalking and killing a person. Hogs can be vicious when they go on the hunt.

I've found several wounded deer in my area that people couldn't find and they looked like coyotes had eaten them but upon inspection it was hogs. Hog tracks everywhere! Like stated above in our area most everything is leased up or completely off limits to hunting. So if you have a place you can kill them and you start hammering them hard they just move across the road or across the fence and they are now untouchable. Then they breed, regroup and come back with a vengeance. I think landowners that do not allow some sort of hog control on thier property should be fined for it heavily. They will never be controlled until we take away thier safe zones. The usda had no problems levying fines on farmers in Oklahoma for allowing purple thistles to grow on thier land and it should be the same with hogs!

I killed 40 hogs off of the quarter last year in 3 months. There had not been one single sign of hogs on the place since I quit trapping and hunting them in January last year until this boar showed up by himself last week. Three nights later he brought his entire sounder back with him. Now I have a job to do all over again.

A friend of mine goes to TX every year to shoot hogs. Where he hunts the rancher charges him and his buddies $100 a hog. He said they like eating them and don't shoot the larger boars. I can sort of see charging something for them, but if they're a serious problem, a $100 seems a little steep for me. He's asked me to go with sometime, but I can't see paying that kind of money for a wild hog.

Doesn't sound like they know if the hogs killed her or not.

where do i sign up to pay somebody for doing them a favor? how much do they charge you to kill coyotes and feral dogs?

$100 is a very good price. I know ranchers who charge $500 and up. My friend catches them, cut's the boars and sells them to high fence ranches. The land in Texas is private, so anytime someone comes to your property your taking a big risk of getting sued. It's the world we live in today.
The other thing ,is hunting them with a gun does little good. We carry guns in our tractors, truck and wherever we go and does very little to control them.

its not the world i live in. in my world they can just live with their hogs

It looks like the hogs did her in but I wonder if they knocked her down or if she tripped and then they had at her?

We used to throw carcasses of coyote, coon, possum and fox it the hog lot after skinning. The next morning the only thing left was the colons. I still have nightmares about the sound of the skulls being being crushed in total darkness.
The lady could have had cardiac arrest and still bleed from the bites.

I wonder if they said that said you have to be a registered game farm to charge people to hunt hogs and then said you have to report all hog kills as a registered game farm.

as long as people cam make money off their neighbors crop damage it would be hard to see how this ever gets corrected.


I have heard bounties don't work , but not sure why , if there was a buck to be made killing hogs you would think there would be people chasing them . let land owner collect the bounty for hogs shot on their land turn in the head frozen to collect

post-mortum wounds bleed different , they can bleed but the blood doesn't pump out , if they saw splatter and pooling consistent with arterial bleeding she was alive at least for a bit.

Exactly! Don't any of you fools ever watch Criminal minds or the CSI shows?

The women CSI's in Las Vegas can tell you what kind of bubble gum a killer chewed when he was only 10 yrs old, and the BAU can tell you what kind of deodorant the killer will buy next week even B4 the victim's body has become rigid! Oh, and if the state of Texas would just hire that little pencil neck Horatio Cane to thin the hogs down the survivors would swim the Rio Grande and learn to speak Espanola.

Trust me, they know whether she was dead or alive when the hogs took to her flesh .

Me thinks you might be a little smarter than the average cheese head! Move down here and I will write you in for Governor of Texas next election!

That film almost looks like shooting rats in the Secaucas Dumps around Newark NJ when I was a kid. There were hundreds of them and 30 or 40 people shooting......jk