Let's Hear It For the Hogs
- Jim Wilson
- 5 hours ago
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by Jim Wilson
A fellow once told me that, regarding feral hogs, there are two kinds of places...them that’s got ‘em and them that’s gonna get ‘em. Feral hogs, if they are anything, are adaptive. We even have them out here in this high, dry desert country of the Texas Big Bend. They are tough, prolific, and destructive...oh, and they’re really fun to hunt.
Hogs came to the South with the earliest settlers. And those folks were in the habit of earmarking their pigs and just turning them loose to roam the woods. The notches cut in the pig’s ear were supposed to denote ownership so the owners could tell which critters belonged to whom. One story claims that the famous Hatfield & McCoy feud started over the disputed ownership of a wild-roaming pig.

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