Very interesting post. I agree with you on hog management. People want to complain about places that there is no hogs, but yet they kill everything they come across. If you manage hogs then you will have hogs. I have a place that has quite a bit on there. Try to keep as many in the place as possible. I like the way the old school hogs looks. Not the hogs that all you see of them is crossing the road in front of you steadily running lol. I try to keep as many colored hogs in the place as I can. I have been feeding one boar hog since 2011 and he was just a pig then, yellow spotted but if you get on him he does nothing but run. We don't normally kill any unless we are going to put them in the freezer. Barr and mark or if we have a buyer we may sale a few. When I started going with my dad when I was just out of diapers I remember him sitting me in a tree and they go in to the bay's and sometimes it being a wad of hogs or one salty boar or Barr. Easy to catch with no problems besides being rank. Now pretty much 17-18 years later if the bulldog going to the bay don't break them then that's suprising. If people left the hogs that bayed in the woods just mark and release it would be a better and we would have better hogs.
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^ bingo, folks like yourself are the ones I was speaking of in regards to this post. The ones that have been in the woods 10-15-20 years or more and have also noticed the overall change in hogs throughout the years. I did not start running dogs until 05/06 but I was in the woods all the same, hunting em with my brush gun and running traps and I can personally say that I have seen quite the change in hogs over the years. Also to clarify, my family hunted the same block of woods for 23 years before my grandfather finally gave up the lease due to continued timber harvesting and increasing lease rates. I was off of that lease and did not hunt the land for 4 years, luckily myself and a friend got back on a lease that borders the lease I grew up and ran around on for all those years. So in order to even further narrow down what I am talking about regarding the overall change in hogs I am speaking about based off of one general area.
