Speaking for me T-Bob, I can say that a conversation like you describe hasn't come up.....lol
The landowners I hunt for feed their families by money they make from what they produce, grow, and harvest. I've seen acres of corn layed down in a single night, hay fields torn up, hogs push in between yearlings at a feeder and acres of seed rooted out of the ground the day after it was planted. Im positive they do not farm / ranch just so I or they can hog hunt.
Their are plenty of big hogs to catch, without me adding any more in my area.
Like I said before, Im not knocking barr hogs, its just something I cannot do where I am at. Its a fast way to get a bad reputation which could jeopardize my permission to hunt on other places.
Im not trying to take anything away from the monster that Chance and them caught. Thats is a once in lifetime hog and truth be told, Im still trying to break the 400 mark myself. I would have loved to be in on that catch. They were hunting in an area where that is not frowned upon, I hunt in an area where the practice of barring hogs is. Simple as that....
