As discussed above, they're a nasty problem. Impressively hardy and voracious, and they reproduce faster than anything native except maybe rabbits. They will destroy your crops and pasture, and drive out native wildlife. You need to get rid of them and every month you wait your problem will increase until your land is barren.
The best thing about them is that they're free food with no limit, and they're pretty easy to clean and butcher by yourself.
We don't have them up here, but in TX they were a big problem. I found them to be exceptionally good eating - leaner than farm raised pork, but very good if slow cooked. Much better than deer, and again, no limit. I've been told that some of them are heavily diseased and to really check out the internal organs when you dress them, but I've never seen one with any problems.
You can do some net surfing for different techniques, and I had some friends that trapped them, but my recommendation is to bait them with corn (I knew guys who swore by soaking the bait w/diesel, but plain corn worked well for me) and shoot them. I've got friends that use .223s, but I'm a big fan of larger cal (12g slug works great from a tree stand in the woods, and a good 7mm Mag or larger rifle is perfect about anywhere).
Do some research on kill zones also. I shot my first pig (~150+ lb boar) dead center of where I was aiming - a couple inches behind the shoulder (where a deer's vitals are). It killed him in one shot, but a lot of that was because it was a 180gr .300WinMag (yes, overkill). It also blew out a whole side of ribs, which is a waste. I later learned that the vitals on a pig are a lot more forward. You really need to aim for or just in front of the shoulder. With a slug or big rifle, hitting the neck just in front of the shoulder is about perfect, will put them down immediately, and doesn't waste much meat. If I was using something smaller like a .223 or .243, I think I'd go for the heart/lungs area, which is in the lower third of the body below the shoulderblade and just above the "elbow."
) to turn them into would solve the problem. Once there is a demand for them, more people will turn into full time hunters to cash in & in no time at all, the pigs will be extinct.
