He's right you know.

Never seen a hog in Kansas.

The issue is that people secretly love hunting hogs. They can’t admit it, but they do.

Im confused, How does prohibiting hog hunting lower the hog population?

Let’s say you have a sounder of hogs come up on you while you are hunting. You shoot at the group and you kill 1 maybe 2 hogs out of that group. Now the rest of the group has been educated. Hogs are very smart animals and learn to avoid hunters very quickly.
Option B... You’re in the woods and you have a sounder of hogs come up on you or you have been getting regular pictures of the sounder on your cameras. You get in contact with a local trapper and he comes and sets up a trap. He feeds the trap for a few nights and lets the hogs get used to it. On the 3rd night, the whole sounder is in the trap. Trapper drops the trap and goes in the next morning and shoots the entire sounder. Picks all his stuff up and moves on to the next job. Hog problem eliminated.

What happens if one or 2 of those hogs is outside the trap and now have been educated on traps? If hunting can educate them it seems like missing a hog or 2 in a sounder would educate them as well.
And for the record I hate having hogs on our property. We shoot everyone we see hit also run traps.

The Hatians and Hybrid Pythons have to eat.

That why you don’t drop the trap if there’s a chance at missing any of the hogs. However, 1 or 2 hogs on a property can be removed with shooting them. Sounders or groups are not that easy. The rule states that property owners can still remove hogs by any means necessary. So if you have a lone boar hog on your property and the opportunity presents itself to shoot that hog, you kill him with out prejudice!!

I don’t know a whole lot about how to best control hogs so I will keep opinions to myself on that. However, if on the TN side of LBL there has been an effective knocking back or elimination of hogs, it would damn well have to be recent. I tried to hunt turkeys there last spring and finally just said to hell with it. Could not get away from the nasty bastards. They were literally everywhere I went. And the turkey hunting was garbage too, as expected after getting an understanding of how bad the hog problem was.

Thats how they started in North Alabama. Some guys with Hog dogs were tired of driving to other states to hunt them so they turned some loose in Bankhead. On one occasions they had a trailer load coming home and had a flat on I565. In fear of getting caught they opened the gate and thats how they started on the Wheeler refuge, and from there every county north of the river.

It doesn't but the goobermint types want to outlaw hog hunting so they can get the grant $$$. There have been animals hunted to extinction and hogs are no different.

I'll openly admit it. I much prefer the challenge of hiking miles in the mountains of north Alabama with all my gear chasing hogs to sitting on my a$$ in freezing weather waiting on a nocturnal deer to show up every blue moon. Hog hunting is much more fun.