Lets talk about Hog management.........for those that don't kill em all

Ok so I managed to screw that up............ my computer went dum dum on me and didn't let me finish........

Anyway, we are all actively trying to kill any and all hogs that do not fit the profile of the hogs we have had in the past. We have all agreed to kill any hog that has characteristics of imported, not native (if you will) hogs............... Now we all know that none of these hogs are native if you go back far enough, I am using the word "native" to describe hogs that have been around our area for longer than I have been alive, generally thicker, stouter, bulkier hogs.......pretty much simply better blooded hogs...... over the years some folks in our area have introduced domestic hogs to the woods which has in turn thrown more color into the hogs we have today, these aren't the hogs we are actively killing, in fact these are the hogs we are marking and turning back out. We are NOT targeting hogs simply based off of color, we are looking for hogs that are built different than the hogs we have had in these woods for years.

Those of you that have been in the woods for a while will know exactly what type of hog I am talking about, while some areas hold larger populations that are more influenced than others I would imagine by now most folks in texas have at one point or another seen and run into this type of hog. The hogs we are killing are the longer more streamline hogs, hogs that generally are built lower and slimmer in their rear ends and larger/ bulkier in their front ends with longer more stretched out heads and longer legs, built more athletic then the rooter hogs we have had in these woods longer than i've been alive. The majority of the hogs I am talking about are generally a reddish brown almost rusty color but they do come in just about every other color with smaller ears and bigger, longer heads than their rooter relatives.

Obviously we all know that we will not wipe these hogs out BUT we much prefer to kill these than we do to kill our rooter type hogs and we have been trying to practice catch and release whenever possible on our better blooded hogs, and killing or barring these hogs that show more characteristics of outside introduced genetics to minimize the further breeding and dilution of our rooter type hog population.

When I first started chasing these hogs some 10 years ago it wasn't unusual for us to catch wattled hogs, over the years these type hogs have gotten harder and harder to come across and now when we do catch one we try to keep it in the best shape we can to turn it back out.

Thoughts? Opinions? criticism? lets hear it. Any one else out there working on managing their herd?