I’m not in Texas, so of course we have different laws... but in SC releasing hogs is not a common practice. Most areas around here want them dead because of the damage they’re causing and a property owner won’t allow you to let them live. But, the only laws I know of are in regards to transporting. We can not transport unless you have a permit, and under no circumstances can you cross county lines with a live hog. You can also not transport them to release them somewhere else. They must go to a pen if they are being kept alive.
With that being said, most of DNR want the pigs gone because of all the damage they cause. While they’re not going to arrest you for cutting a boar and turning him loose, they’re definitely not gonna be happy and you won’t be making any friends with them. If I was out in the swamp on a property without crops, sure I would do it. Just gotta be aware of who may find out and who it might affect. Some of you down in Texas have it awesome with big leases that are fine with hogs being on the property. Unfortunately people over here aren’t as understanding of turning them back loose.
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Most landowners around here just want them hunted. Never had one care whether we tied or killed it. As for cutting and turning hogs loose, most land owners not gonna be real keen on that. Luckily I help manage 2 separate ranches in central and south Texas. So when it comes to hogs, we do as we want. Lots of guys down here such as y’all, hunt “problem hogs” for land owners with a “hog problem”. I gave up on that about 2 years ago. Cost me too much money to load up and go hunt a bunch of small tracts when I I can let dogs out of their pen and have 5k+ acres to hunt from there. I only have 3 places I hunt these days back home that I have 0 ties to other than hog hunting. And they all some how have Barr hogs walking around them some where.
Most people I know around me that cut hogs, are doing so without landowners knowledge. and more often than not, atleast in CenTex, they’re catching them, cutting them, hauling them to the biggest acreage place they have and turning em loose.(illegal) but most landowners I’ve ever met are hardly proactive enough about their “hog problem” to ever realize there are a bunch of castrated hogs around. And the only people outside of landowners I’ve met not real keen on finding Barr hogs are the big cell trap guys who think it is their life purpose to eradicate the wild hog. As if that’s possible.
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