man I typed this post a few hours ago and forgot to post it...

it is always open season on wild hogs in quite a few places. you can hunt them here all year around which is why I started this thread. maybe before or right after I made this thread i saw a local news story recommending hogs be hunted as a sport. im mostly a city guy myself but I'm still making plans to get out and do some hog hunting when I can. I just ended up getting busy and my resources got a little slim. met a couple guys I who offered me a place to go but i got pretty busy so never made it out.

if you are interested in hog hunting it's probably a good bet that you can find a guy willing to let you come shoot some if he's got em.

If you watch YouTube you will a lot of different types of hog hunting and it looks like fun to me. The destructive nature of hogs pretty much sets any hog you see in the "clean kill is a good kill" category. The only real rule I have seen on them is to shoot them. I have read about some guys who hunt to sell them locally and others who do it for sport and give them away. Traps, arrows, dogs, knives, night vison snipers... Its on Youtube! There are even some cases where they are just a serious problem and must be killed no matter. If I had a yard full of pigs every night like some of these guys I would go out and invest in lot of ammo and a big grill.

I don't think a homeless shelter or and other established organization can use wild game for legal reasons. I will most definitely be eating any hogs I can shoot. I would like to get to where I can even process them myself.

Wild pigs and domestic pigs gone wild aren't too fussy what they eat, that can range from a diet of grains to rotten carrion.

I used to often pen up wild pigs we'd caught with dogs, young sows and boars, we'd cut the boars then drench all of them with a horse wormer and swab them all over with kerosene to get rid of the ticks and lice. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

We'd feed them up for s couple of weeks with grain, mainly barley before we killed them.
Just cleans their system out and packs some condition on them and makes them far better to eat.
Ian.

Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry can use wild deer if it is butchered by a qualified butcher and taken to a food pantry. Checking on this in my area this week. I recently got offered a chance to hunt them this year and will shoot more than 1 if the fod pantry can use them.

I Live in Ohio and never really heard much a about this in till this thread.
This sounds like a great hunt. I like deer, bird, and every other hunt I have tried. Just another thing to put on my to do list.