TN government has gotten in the way of having fun with hogs unless you own a place infested with them. They are all over the place, but very spotty. Seems a higher population in Cumberland county than most surrounding me, but I have seen pictures of Putnam, Overton, Jackson, and White counties all having hogs as well. I suspect that hogs are thicker in Sequatchie County just because of the terrain. All told I believe middle Tennessee has likely got more hogs than East Tennessee and definitely more than west Tennessee. Of the areas I am familiar with, only 1 public hunting areas has a verified hog population and that is Catoosa.
But on the topic of the govt, to be able to go kill them legally you have to have fish and wildlife come do a survey and you list a few people who will be killing the hogs and that’s the only people who can do it. Seems an attempt to avoid the issue of having folks adding to the population for purposes of running a hog hunting ranch, but it sure puts a damper on guys like me who know farms wiring 20 minutes drive that are covered but can’t hunt them because I’m not on anybody’s list of exterminators yet.
