A friend was over a bit ago with a story. He said that the Kansas Game and Fish Department is going to use helicopters around Clinton Lake to clean out the hogs. This is the same state which banned hunters from hunting hogs last year. Has anyone else heard of hogs around Clinton Lake? The lake is located just outside of Lawrence, Ks., which is about 17 miles from Kansas City, Ks. Tom P.

since no one responded I decided to task this one out myself. What I found out is there are, or were, hogs around Clinton Lake on the outskirts of Lawrence, Ks. The United States Department of Agriculture has been eradicating them for the past few years, or at least that is what one wildlife official told me. She said hunters used to be able to take hogs there, but no more. The state has issued a law prohibiting the killing of wild hogs in an effort to get people to stop letting hogs grow wild in Kansas.

7x57 was talking with the folks back In Hutchinson,and they told me the same thing seems Kansas is dead serious about keeping hogs down and out

I hope they can do a better job in Kansas than they can in Texas because I am hunting a place that has been shooting them out of helicopters for three years and I am still killing just as many hogs there as I ever did. It seems that you had better kill every one of them the first time because when they hear that copter coming they will hide and you will never see them again from the air unless you happen to catch them in the open.

Duckman: I was told that they are using a chopper in the eradication effort. The twist is, Kansas has outlawed hunters from hunting the animals. Apparently someone in the state was importing hogs for hunting and the state legislature put a stop to hog hunting to stop this individual from importing more hogs. That won't keep hogs from coming out of Oklahoma into new territory, or do a walkabout from Missouri into Kansas. As far as your place in Texas, that is too bad. There were a couple of kids from Montana on one of these forums several months ago that offered to come to Texas to do some major hog eradication for free. As I remember it, they didn't get one offer to come to Texas to help in the hog eradication problem, but they did get some offers to come there and hunt the animals for a fee they had to pay. I think that what you said about the hogs hearing choppers is true as can be. I used to go to the King Ranch when I lived in New Mexico to hunt hogs. My brother had part of a lease there, so I got to get on the ranch and hunt hogs while he hunted deer. I quickly learned that when the pressure is on, hogs will pattern hunters and then avoid the behavior they learned. Tom P

Guys, I have lived in TX all my life, and 20 years ago it was pretty rare to kill a pig while deer hunting. There are so many of them now that they literally are running the deer out of the areas, and away from the feeders.

I hope the farmers, ranchers and lease property owners drown in the darned things! This state is absolutely the worst as far as greed goes. You hear the farmers and cattle ranchers talking about how the hogs tear the property up, but if you offer to hunt/trap them, you are told that you are welcome to come hunt them for a fee. Good deer leases go for anywhere between 2500 and five grand, and there is apparently enough money in the state that the leases are bought up.

It has gotten absolutely out of hand. Hog hunts now go for anywhere between $125 and $500 a day, and sometimes that does not include the "trophy fees". I have shot a bunch of them, and yes, they are fun to hunt, but there is no way they are worth $500 a day plus fee. They are nothing but vermin, and Texas has a problem with them!

Doubless, I guess it is all about your point of view. If we all thought the same, we would all try to marry the same woman!
Foe me, I would rather catch a good boar with dogs than kill the biggest buck in Texas for $2500. The money has taken deer hunting away from the average person, but if you are a responsible hunter you can hunt hogs 24/7 where I
live.I have been doing it for 25 yrs since I got priced out of the deer.

No doubt that wild hogs do a lot of damage to crops and cost farmers lots of money. That said, I get more pleasure hunting hogs than deer, but that's my personal preference.......what this has to do with this thread, I have no idea! Sorry for the hi-jacking!

Kansas feral hog news
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/16777122.htm

Keep in mind these same folks (Kansas Dept Wildlife and Parks) have determined there are no mountain lions in the state because they paid a houd hunter for a year to try to catch one. He was unsuccessful, therefore there are no lions.