I’ve been to Texas every winter for ~20 years. In my opinion, there were way more pigs there in 1998 than there are now and I think night vision scopes are the biggest reason with helicopter hunting coming in second. One fellow I know killed over 50 in a night with an ATV, night vision and a pistol and we’ve killed between 20-30 per night with one AR-15 equipped with a Gen 3 scope. Helicopter hunting can kill every pig on a property. Dog hunting can kill a lot of pigs if done right. I think there is a zero percent chance of wild pigs ever becoming anything more than a localized nuisance in Alberta. Pig hunting in Texas is big business and the pig population could be severely reduced in a year if people really wanted to.
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