I have hunted deer and dove all my life in Lavaca County, TX, and every couple of years I go backpack hunting in Colorado for deer or elk. I'm getting a little long in the tooth to be carrying a 90 plus pound pack for a 10 day high country hunt, but I'm trying to trim down my load. We have the same problem with hogs in Lavaca County. My great grandfather and all his brothers ran hogs on mast, just like everywhere else in the south, and now you can't cut hay because of the holes. Still, if the truth be known, I'd rather have the hogs out there than make any real money on the damned cattle.
I had a buddy one time tell everybody at work: "Russ wouldn't ever get any dates at all if he didn't have a hog trap." (Actually, I've never trapped, and although we have hundreds of them down there, they all seem to be pretty nocturnal. My 80-year-old mother lives on the ranch, and I told her I was going to put out some traps and I wanted her to run them for me every couple of days with a loaded .44 mag, blow away anything she found, then hook a rope to the pickup and drag them off to rot. She doesn't talk to me much any more and I have pretty much concluded she would prefer her reading club.
Russ