[EinNYC]

How can you be sure the hog is really dead and not just wounded when shooting from a helicopter? Wouldn’t it be cruel to leave behind wounded game?

[TADSLOS]

Feral hogs are out of control here in Texas. There is an open season with no bag limit. All you need is a hunting license and landowners permission. A sow will typically give birth to 4-6 in each litter and can reproduce twice a year. They are destructive to crops and livestock feed plants. We even have hog damage on the three golf courses here in my community.

I have a friend who operates a hog hunting business from helicopter here in central Texas. He will typically kill up to 30 hogs a day, go out the very next day to the same locale and repeat. Local ranchers are more than happy to work with him in clearing out their hog problem. Most of the hogs he kills are either too far into the brush and marsh to retrieve or the meat becomes tainted from adrenaline from running under the helicopter.

[smokingfrog]

People don’t have much sympathy for the hogs the way they tear up your property. I’m sure they probably attack young deer as well.

[SanchoP]

Hogs are cannibals. They’ll eat the carcasses and the wounded.

[Texan]

Wouldn’t it be cruel to leave behind wounded game?

Uh...No.

[FreedomPoster]

Pests are treated differently from game. We are talking pests here.

[dangerdoc]

The helicopter hunters have a ground team that collects the hogs.