Ahhhh, a subject I know about.
I grew up in Southern Florida and hog hunting with my Dad, Uncle and friends.
My uncle had the dog pack, consited of 3-5 dogs. The breeds he used were black mouth cur crossed on pit and/or some type of hound. The hound cross was for trailing, the curs for baying/holding and the pit cross for actual catch.
Hogs down here are like cockroaches, over populated and everywhere. It is not uncommon to see them dead on the side of the road on my way to work.
The piney wood rooter (usually black) is a narrower built, longer snouted and more of a greyhound built type of hog. Smart and nasty. It was not uncommon for people to release domestic into the population on purpose to get size and meat on the offspring.
Of course that was when nearly eveyone could get into the hunting areas and hunt, which kept the population in check.
Now a days, most can't/won't afford to hunt or have no interest/don't know how.
Boars can have good meat if they are shot without getting them hot, immediatly castrating them and gutting them out on the spot.
I currently have a pen raised wild hog in the freezer and have trapped over 50 in the past 3 years on my property. I seamed to have them thinned out and my pasture actually has grass rather than plowed fields and pot holes from the hogs.
There is a local man who will buy the large boars with tusks. He sells them to a game preserve in Ga that has trophy hunts. The bigger the hog and tusks, the more he gets for them. One of the boar I trapped went to him.
Now you have to also have a permit to transport live wild hogs due to psudo rabies.
I grew up in Southern Florida and hog hunting with my Dad, Uncle and friends.
My uncle had the dog pack, consited of 3-5 dogs. The breeds he used were black mouth cur crossed on pit and/or some type of hound. The hound cross was for trailing, the curs for baying/holding and the pit cross for actual catch.
Hogs down here are like cockroaches, over populated and everywhere. It is not uncommon to see them dead on the side of the road on my way to work.
The piney wood rooter (usually black) is a narrower built, longer snouted and more of a greyhound built type of hog. Smart and nasty. It was not uncommon for people to release domestic into the population on purpose to get size and meat on the offspring.
Of course that was when nearly eveyone could get into the hunting areas and hunt, which kept the population in check.
Now a days, most can't/won't afford to hunt or have no interest/don't know how.
Boars can have good meat if they are shot without getting them hot, immediatly castrating them and gutting them out on the spot.
I currently have a pen raised wild hog in the freezer and have trapped over 50 in the past 3 years on my property. I seamed to have them thinned out and my pasture actually has grass rather than plowed fields and pot holes from the hogs.
There is a local man who will buy the large boars with tusks. He sells them to a game preserve in Ga that has trophy hunts. The bigger the hog and tusks, the more he gets for them. One of the boar I trapped went to him.
Now you have to also have a permit to transport live wild hogs due to psudo rabies.
