When we bought our place last spring we noticed in the back woods there were 4 hog pens/traps. So this past week the local guy that watches our place baited one of the hog traps with some corn. We've been catching hogs ever since. I think we've caught 8 hogs so far. Yesterday we saw them for the first time. Last week he took a couple of hogs over to a gator farm that only accepts live hogs. When he got there they'd only give him $8 per small hog, so he said he's never going back there. It's a lot of trouble getting a live wild hog in your truck and then the gas to get over to the gator farm. Not sure if it's true, but the guy tells us there are about 4 million wild hogs in the US, and 2 million of them are in Texas. And I am told they do a lot of damage and it's getting worse because the reproduce so quickly.
Angry/mean black wild hog hiding pre-shot
Black hog shot, putting noose around leg to pull him out while other live brown hog stays in pen for buyer later in week
My nephew pulling dead black wild hog out of pen/trap, ribs and bacon soon!
Sharing a video from Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee (from 2021) that really highlights how tough these wild hogs are!! (amazing the lifting and carrying power of the bear too!)
I wonder if the hog recovered. What spoke to me is how ill equipped and inexperienced the bear seemed to be. Killing hogs isn't a primary source of food for bears which eat a lot of vegetation, fruit, and nuts. Take a mountain lion which makes its living killing ... that hog would have been toast.
A mountain lion would have been on the windpipe and choked it out.
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