Making it illegal to charge for pig hunts?

[Tejas Wildlife]

Amen!

It's their land to do with what they want. If they want to charge someone to access their land to hunt pig's then so be it. If they want to charge $1k per day I say go for it. Noone should be able to tell another man what he can or cant do on his own property as long as it is within the law.

[AJ the TP Guru]

Several states that currently don't have pigs are doing this. Thought is that in some areas, pigs are being spread by hunters (this is very true) for paid hunts. If I am not mistaken, CO has similar laws on it's books, and there's only one or two places that were exempted b/c they had them before the laws went into place.

That may be true, but there ain't many of those states left. The game biologists at TP&W said at a feral hog seminar I attended that ferals are now in 39 states and rising.

[qzilla]

Actually, I wished they would pass a law that would make it illegal to charge for a pig hunt or charge for access to where a pig might be killed at all. So even a deer lease with pigs would fall into this and unless all pigs were removed prior to the lease agreement. This means only properties without pigs could be leased for profit or fees.

My point is, as long as pigs have a monetary value, we will never get rid of the problem. IF the pigs make it to where they bring a negative monetary value, then the farmers will remove them for their own benefit and ultimately get rid of this statewide problem.

[backstrapper77]

gosh how this has turned into a touchy subject.......

[txarcher]

Actually, I wished they would pass a law that would make it illegal to charge for a pig hunt or charge for access to where a pig might be killed at all. So even a deer lease with pigs would fall into this and unless all pigs were removed prior to the lease agreement. This means only properties without pigs could be leased for profit or fees.

My point is, as long as pigs have a monetary value, we will never get rid of the problem. IF the pigs make it to where they bring a negative monetary value, then the farmers will remove them for their own benefit and ultimately get rid of this statewide problem.

Hogs do far more damage statewide than what little revenue they might create on a ranch.