Hunt Hogs at Night Hunting hogs at night, where legal, is increasingly popular because heavily pressured hogs may become mostly nocturnal. The author shot these hogs while testing a prototype thermal ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Flooding, hurricanes, early frosts and supply and demand issues have always been a concern for North Carolina’s farmers. But, now there’s a new and growing threat: Feral hogs. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A hunter in North Carolina shot and killed a ...

Wild hogs have inhabited North America since the middle of the 16th century. Brought over as domestic stock by early settlers, America’s earliest farm pigs escaped their enclosures and became feral in ...

A family of feral hogs are pictured in this U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo on NC Wildlife.org. STEVE HILLABRAND U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE It’s not a bird... it’s not a plane. It’s a ...

Over four decades of hunting hogs, I’ve lost count of the number I have killed. I’ve shot them on spot-and-stalk hunts, behind hounds, on trails between feeding and bedding areas, in open fields at ...

Talk about your porky pigs. Feral swine up to 400 pounds have invaded almost every county in North Carolina, and the state ranks No. 7 in the nation for the beastly boar, a study revealed Wednesday.

The loss of her family’s corn crop two years ago still causes Rachael Sharp to wince when she thinks about how it happened. Feral hogs rooted up the Sharp’s freshly planted corn fields and devoured ...