[paul51]

Gansowski said a lack of funding was the biggest obstacle to preventing the population from exploding.

What's to fund? Hunters could take care of that problem.

[Varda]

Simply put a bounty on them. They’d disappear in no time.

[driftless2]

Here in Wisconsin hunters are allowed to shoot wild pigs on site. I’ve yet to see a wild pig alive or dead while driving on the roads in the area. Supposedly there’s a very large population of the critters in some of the counties south of where I live.

[driftless2]

Here in Wisconsin hunters are allowed to shoot wild pigs on site. I’ve yet to see a wild pig alive or dead while driving on the roads in the area. Supposedly there’s a very large population of the critters in some of the counties south of where I live.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Hunters cannot keep up with that reproduction rate. Right now, both Berlin, Germany, and parts of Texas are overrun with wild boars, and they destroy entire farms in their path.

In Germany, the first year of an open season boar hunt, hunters killed some 250,000 boars. The next year, triple that amount, and still weren’t making a dent in their growing numbers.

There are now several videos of hunting boars by helicopter in Texas, and they are like helicopter gunship films from Vietnam. Some run 10 minutes or more (with better or worse rock ‘n’ roll music added), fly over the same ground, and there are always more and more boars to shoot. Afterwards, a ground crew brings a truck and they fill its bed with with dead boars.

They say that every 90 days there are 15 new piglets from each sow, that reach maturity quickly.