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Hogs continue to spread throughout the country, doing untold amounts of property damages—leading some hunters to take to the air in a control effort.

Sid Miller, Texas Department of Agriculture (DOA) commissioner, proposed a change to the Texas Administrative Code in an attempt to control the 5 million feral hogs in the state. The destructive hogs are estimated to cause upwards of $52 million in damages a year in Texas alone, and Miller suggested using poison, specifically Kaput Feral Hog Lure, a bait mixed with the blood thinner warfarin that is normally reserved for humans but happens to be lethal to pigs.

In only the fifth fatal wild hog attack documented in the United States since 1825, a caretaker was exsanguinated by a pack of feral hogs mere feet from the front door of her destination.

After deer, hogs are Florida’s next most popular big-game quarry, and compared to most other hog states, the wild porkers are a close second.

Wild swine are devastating property and wildlife across the country and one way to combat the threat is to employ military-like tactics such as night vision.

Pigs are not only some of the most destructive pests, the animals also happen to be some of the noisiest. Here’s how to silence a pig or two by following your ear.

Florida’s Space Coast is a great place to hunt day and night. There you can stack pigs till the wee hours then rise to look for an alligator.

An AR, a FLIR optic and a crossbow do the trick on pigs in the land of the Osceola.