Goose87
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« on: April 14, 2019, 05:53:29 pm » |
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We used to do that around here but it points a direct finger at the hog dog hunter, all deer hunters want them dead, nobody works and cuts the boars anymore except in isolated part of the swamp, ands that's just about a 1500 acre block and that's it, I might put a mark in ones ear or bob a tail on some of the deer leases I hunt but other than that we try to be discreet as possible, if we got the stuff to do it close by well trim the hooves back on one toe on one side on a Barr, about 20 years ago and old man used to hog hunt and trap and bring in hogs around his dairy farm, he cut a bunch of boars and tagged them and turned them loose there and told everybody around those were HIS hogs, he pitched a fit when some deer hunters shot two of them, one night he gets a call from a neighbor down the road and ask if he had a big spotted hog with a tag in it, he told the fellow as matter of fact I do but I don't want them messed with, the neighbor said "thanks for informing me, my wife just totaled out her brand new car right down the road from your house, she hit your hog, I'll be there in a minute with the deputy to fill out the report", after that ole Chester Dillon never claimed another hog in Walthhall County Ms...
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