Using trained dogs to hunt and catch feral hogs provides a unique sport as well as a means to help control problem feral hogs. Once caught, hunters can move in to dispatch of the hog or tie it up and remove it as well as any problems it may have caused. Randy Reed Feral hogs can be, and often are, successfully hunted with mules and dogs. Captured hogs can be sold for slaughter or butchered at home. The disadvantage to any type of hunting is that if pressure is intense, hogs may shift their home range areas, causing them to leave the property, or change their activity periods to night.
Night shooting or hunting with dogs at night then become the best hunting methods.
Night shooting should be done only with the explicit permission of a game warden. Intense hunting pressure needs to be considered if trophy fees are collected for feral hog hunting due to the possible shift in activity periods or home range. The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.