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City Park Porcine Problem Prompts Council Decision

Visitors to city parks don't want to see or be bothered by feral pigs, which is why one city council has contracted with a trapper to remove the porcine problem.
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Landowners Getting Loaner Traps to Deal With Feral Hog Problem

The feral hog problem is severe in Texas, which is why Nueces County officials are offering to help landowners by loaning traps to capture the nasty critters.
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Just How Many Feral Pigs Has This State Killed This Year?

Missouri officials have taken a hard stance against feral pigs, implementing a hardcore trapping effort and changing hunting regulations to eradicate the invasive pests.
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VIDEO: How to Skin and Butcher Feral Pigs

If you've ever wondered how to skin and butcher feral pigs after knocking down one or two on a hunt, it's not difficult and can result in some tasty meat for the dinner table.
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Bluegrass Landowners Asked to Help Locate Feral Pigs

Landowners have been asked by officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to help locate feral pigs in a specific county.
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Take Precautions When Cleaning and Butchering Wild Hogs

Feral hogs are delicious to eat, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn to take precautions when cleaning and butchering the animals to prevent infection from a naturally occurring and debilitating disease.
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3 Ways Predator Hunting Can Help Introduce Someone to the Outdoors

One of the best ways to introduce someone to the outdoors is on a predator hunt that involves calling, moving around and, hopefully, a successful ending.
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Coyotes and Varmints: The Best Predator Hunting Caliber?

See our lineup of a lineup of some of predator hunting’s best calibers. Find recommendations for everything from coyotes to small varmint.
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Hogs Invaded a Quiet Nature Preserve, and Then They Started Dying

When feral hogs began invading a quiet nature preserve the folks who run the preserve used trapping before adding a sportsmen's access program for hunters.
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Getting Paid to Hunt Feral Hogs? Yes, Please Sign Us Up.

Financial bounty programs date back decades for a variety of wildlife ranging from felines and canines to the growing number of feral hogs in Texas.
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Can We Win the War on Feral Pigs in the United States?

With millions of feral pigs roaming throughout a large portion of the United States, can we win the war on these pests? Do we really want to?
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A New Airgun Projectile: The .357 Air Bolt

If you have a 35-caliber air rifle or want one for predator hunting, you might want to give the .357 Air Bolt a try to enjoy something new in the field.
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Just How Deadly Is a Wild Boar?

Are wild boars deadly? Attacks are not common, but they do seem to be trending upward. Seventy percent of reported attacks occurred between 2000 and 2012.
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Persistent Porkers Crash and Burn at Oklahoma Airport

The good people at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City don't mess around when it comes to protecting the planes and runways from feral pigs.
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Where to Find, Hunt Feral Pigs in Summer

Summer isn't the most fun time to get into the woods to hunt feral pigs, especially in the Southeast. But it's a time when these nasty critters can be patterned more easily.
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Predator Gun Review: Savage MSR 15 Recon

What modification did Savage give one of its popular rifles? We got the Savage MSR 15 Recon, gave it a thorough checkup and put it to the test to find out.
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First Look: .308 Texan for Texas Hog Hunting

How does this new airgun caliber work compared to the standard .457? Jim Chapman heads to Texas for field testing and research on wild pigs.
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Airguns and Feral Hogs: Going Small Bore for Small Boar

The author looks at using standard-caliber air rifles to hunt feral hogs and answers if it can be done ethically.
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Hogs beware, the 6.5 Creedmoor is built-to-kill

Building your own dedicated hog-killing rifle in the hard-hitting, flat-shooting 6.5 Creedmoor can be a blast.
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Wait, how many feral hogs did this state agency eliminate?

Arkansas wildlife officials used helocopters and extensive field reports of sightings to combat invasive feral hogs as part of a control project.
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How hunting varmints can keep your skills sharp

Varmints are the ultimate targets; so get out in the field this summer.
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Whitetail deer disease affecting management of feral hogs

If you love to kill feral pigs and want to make a little cash, Guadalupe County in southwest Texas is...

Hog Apocalypse: Is Poisoning Hogs The Way To Go In Texas?

With poisoning hogs now legal in the Lone Star State, the “Hog Apocalypse” is coming, according to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
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Hog Wild: Why Bowhunters Should Set Their Sights On Feral Pigs

Strapped for cash and looking for a fun way to fill your freezer? Bowhunting wild hogs is your answer.
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Warrants Issued For Live Hog Transportation In Backseats, Car Trunks

Feral pigs transported in dog boxes, backseats and trunks across state lines in Alabama, Florida and Mississippi led to 16 arrest warrants being issued.
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Shoot More Hogs With Thermal And Night Vision

As the nation continues to battle the feral hog epidemic, modern technology helps pave the way for hunters to shoot more hogs.
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Boar Emerges From Sea, Attacks Beachgoers

A wild emerges from the Baltic Sea and violently causes havoc to beachgoers in northern Poland.
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Missouri Bans Feral Hog Hunting On Conservation Land

The Missouri Game Commission has banned all feral hog hunting on its conservation lands, believing that shooting hogs scatters sounders and makes it tougher to eradicate the swine.
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Radioactive Wild Pigs Run Wild Near Japan Plant

Radioactive wild pigs near Fukishima continue creating problems for Japan. Lack of conservation has caused population to increase 330 percent.