Hunting plays a key role in the management of any property’s hog problem. While systematic, strategic trapping takes the lead, there’s an absolute and necessary role to be played by active hunting.

Hog hunting runs in my blood. The European last name on the maternal side of my family loosely translates to “the place where men kill boar.” I don’t know if genetic selection played a role, but I ...

Wild hogs have inhabited North America since the middle of the 16th century. Brought over as domestic stock by early settlers, America’s earliest farm pigs escaped their enclosures and became feral in ...

Feral hogs are the most destructive and costly invasive species in North America. They are also one of the most numerous and widespread, and while it should be said that hunting doesn’t effectively ...

Over four decades of hunting hogs, I’ve lost count of the number I have killed. I’ve shot them on spot-and-stalk hunts, behind hounds, on trails between feeding and bedding areas, in open fields at ...

State legislators across the country are looking to limit the population of wild hogs and the damage caused by these massive creatures. Wild hogs are also called feral swine and are the same species ...