Some of you will think this is a great story and some will not like how the thing started.

The U. of Georgia did a study on imported wild Russians back in the late �50s around �why wild hogs are hardier than domestics.� When the study was over they where supposed to destroy all of the Russians. Well, the researchers found that hard to do and whata you know, it wasn�t long before a cattle trailer was on its way to Mississippi to seed hogs for REEEAAALLLL hog hunting. Several groups were deposited around the state.

Guess what!!! They are thriving and as you said very destructive etc, etc. One caveat � these are bad hogs and will charge as soon as they see you. Gives squirrel hunting a whole new thrill because 6 shot may not turn a big boar.

Anyway, I was invited to go on a hawg hunt on a 13,000 acre plantation in Noxubee county Ms with my best friend. We were not hunting with dogs as they usually did and were just hoping to take some long shots in the bottom fields. So, at the crack of daylight we walked down the dirt road within 25 yards of the road breaking into the fields and out steps this 253 lb boar. I�d never hunted anything that chased you before and we were not expecting this at all. So, here it was two guys standing on a gravel road 25 steps from a big boar also standing in the middle of the road but broadside. It�s still so dark that I don�t think he could see us very well, but he smelled us. I get off one shot as he turning towards us. It was good we got him because all the trees were little so I guess we would have had to jump into the pond next to the road (back in the 30�s they levee�d up the hills at the edge of the bottoms and created 5 ponds/lakes and this became the road down to the fields in the bottoms).

Be happy you don�t have wild Russians running about like in Mississippi. They are breeding with the same feral hogs and overtime it may improve and then again it may be like the Africanized honey bee. They just will keep spreading.