It Cost How Much???

[TrainChaser]

Sorry, Gary, but when people brag about blowing up animals, I get irate.  My last post was restrained.  It's bad enough when people do it, but worse when they brag about it.  And that's what he was doing.  They don't really do it for the general good, they don't do it to save ammo, they do it for the FUN and bragging rights of it.  I've heard of this before.  Do they go in afterward and destroy the injured hogs?  No, they just leave them to die... eventually.  

And WHY does Texas have such a problem, esp since the 1980s?  Well, guess what?  The Texans did it to themselves, DELIBERATELY.

The Texas ranchers actually started cultivating wild hog populations on their ranches so they could sell hunting leases.  Some of them were actually trapped and released in other parts of the state, for the same reason.  Other ranchers set out feed to attract deer, but attracted wild hogs, instead, and the well-fed hogs kept multiplying.  Texas has deliberately raised themselves to the the state with -- by far -- the worst feral hog problem.  And they knew how destructive they were.  They did it Deliberately...  voluntarily...  and on purpose. Did they think about the possible problems? Of course not.