Message #56580

[smwilson]

I guess if you boys had to worry about pastures, pecan orchards and hay fields being torn up you would be mighty glad to get rid of the hogs. You know I didn't always trap my own hogs. I couldn't find anyone that followed thru or do what they said.  Couldn't use a hobby hunter or weekend person. Back eight or nine years ago you could ride up on a tank and there might be thirty or forty hogs there. You could cube the cows and in twenty minutes find hogs standing in the row feeders eating. I had a choice to shoot hundreds of hogs and let them lie and rot or build traps and start catching them myself. Yes I do sell them. Trapping hogs is know my hobby. I use the money to hire high school kids during the summer to fix fence, paint and hay work. I don't know if you fellas realize how close the state of Texas is on cracking down on feral hogs. There is yearly several hundreds of  millions of dollars in damage caused by hogs. I hope you can confence (convince) yourself then that it is a serious issue.