Despite my username, I do like to have the chance to bust a few pigs now and then --- so in a way I'm glad there are some running around in rural Texas. But I realize that they can certainly get out of hand. I just got an interesting report from one of my hunting buddies. Late this past deer deer season (which would be in January down here in Texas) he hunted over an oat patch that he estimated to be about 500 yards long by 200 yards wide, so I guess it was about 21 acres. He said one evening, using his binoculars, he stopped counting pigs when he got to 75 and he said there were lots more to count. Today my buddy got a call from the ranch owner, who reported that earlier this week he had hired some hog hunters who used a helicopter and they killed right at 140 pigs in one session! They then dug a pit with a dozer and buried them. I've always believed in myself (or somebody else) eating anything I kill, but I guess I can't really blame the guy in this case. Can you imagine the damage that a huge "herd" of hogs like that could do to an oat patch that was meant for calves or deer, or what they could do to the ranch land & fences in general? Regards, Arnold Ziffle