I'll try to keep this short.
I dont understand or agree with the hunters that are sticking hogs or just cutting heads of boars. I would not classify myself as an "old timer", but I was trained by some "old timers". Boars were made barrs and sows were left alone. If we did/do catch hogs, they are caught alive and tied or hobbled. Once all the dogs are caught and tied, we take the hog to the truck/4-wheeler or we bring the truck/4-wheeler to the hog alive. If we are going to eat the hog, we take the hog home alive and them do the deed. Maybe it is just a new breed of hunters or maybe people want to see hog sticking on you-tube. Me persoanlly, I dont think it is cool to see some guy running in and sticking a hog before the hog is tied. I know what the laws say about transporting live hogs, and the laws are different in different places. I'm just saying I dont agree with it and I really dont care to see it.
I am the oppisite, cant beleive people risk there lives and dogs to waste time tying a $2 hog, shoot them or stick them and keep going is my motto, most big ranches dont want people on their ranches with a trailer that has been used to haul live hogs from all over the country especially if they have bangs or rabies in the area, there so many hogs in my area that ranchers compare mini 14s, ak57s and ar15s with high capacity cli[ps to see how many hogs they had to leave laying in the woods, no way any dog hunter is going to keep up down here any more, to many hogs and getting worse every day, high fence deer operations can not risk diease as well and just trap and shoot year rould including dogs alas to my dismay but i can see why, there so many drop the tailgate illegals around here there are so many loose dogs left in the woods by hog dog hunters they been coming under the deer fences trying to find a home and meal, this county is prob one of the worse in texas i figure, u ought to see the snare trappers trophy collection of dog collars and pictures he shows new client ranch owners.........
