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Doesn't add much to this beautiful photo, but we used to put in for quota hunts on Ossabaw. Unreal beautiful place. Hogs were everywhere. We killed them at every opportunity. GA DNR does not let hunters remove them from the Island, so they get dumped in a pit. Legend was the hogs were brought over from Spain in the 16th Century by explorers. The ones that survived the journey were released to fend for themselves. They made it fine obviously.
Word I get from Codey Elrod that works the island as the only Hog Control Tech is that the sport hunting on Ossabaw has a minimal impact on numbers. Two quota hunts annually.
He shoots them with impunity now to try to control the numbers. Evidently the hogs are wearing out sea turtle nests, endangered bird nests and even the annual fawn drop. IIRC, his record for one year was over 1500 hogs in a year.
That is a lot of wasted meat
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
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