yep, there was a russian type boar killed not 10 miles from my house the other day . i wouldnt dought twra ain't turning them loose .
I know for a fact they used to, whether it was officially done by the state or not I’m not sure but we used to have a state senator here that was said to be the most powerful man in the state and he was as die hard a hog hunter as anybody who lived, when my pawpaw was a young man he took care of all of “60” Rayburn’s dogs and was directed by him to round up a bunch of swamp hogs, some game wardens from Tennessee drove down and picked up a trailer load and paw paw hauled several trailer loads of black swamp hogs as they were called at the time, up to Tennessee, this would have been in the 50’s, Senator 60 was also responsible for coyotes in our country, years ago when the original virgin timber had been harvested there’s wasn’t any game left, when the timber companies bought the land and replanted it in pines, deer were just about unheard of and red fox were prized possessions and the fox hunters had just about caught and killed them out, so he had a game warden from North La, whose name I’ll withhold who was a hog and fox hunter to send a trailer load of coyotes down here so the fox hunters would have something new to hunt...
Those "swamp hogs" came from Southeast Georgia, along with a few loads of "Pineywoods Rooters" from Green Swamp in Central Florida. They turned them hogs out on the Plateau on Catoosa WMA. Locals bred some Russian into them from mountain hogs out of the Smokies. See alot of color in those hogs up that way, but that Russian blood is definitely dominating;)
Not sure what “swamp hogs” your referring to but the ones I’m talking about came from the swamps of the pearl river and were descendants of the old free range herds mixed with Russians that had been imported for sport hunting by the few hunters of that time...
