There’s a state park near my home, in the steep hills to the east of Silicon Valley. We once chatted with one of the rangers who took care of the campground and picnic grounds, and he says that he and a couple of other rangers hunt the wild pigs. They took their jeeps further back into the park, well away from trails and visitors, and shot the hell out of them. But they couldn’t really make a dent in their numbers. Campers are advised to not feed them and keep an eye out for them, as they’re dangerous.
Ha! We had a SCA event in one of those parks, and the rangers were lamenting no one could use guns there, too close to civilization. We offered SCA heavy fighter sin armor with boar spears. They were tempted, but the liability issues…
That sounds like more than a liability issue - it sounds like a good way to die…
I remember a thread from years ago where someone asked what animal would be the worst opponent under some circumstance and the general consensus came down to wild boars.
Yup, even your cute domestic pig can go a bit feral and kill you with very little effort. And domestic pigs that escape go feral with a quickness and are quite successful at it. Very efficient and capable animals, pigs. Smart, too.
Whenever anything remotely related to this topic comes up - or worse, the dreaded “w” word - I’m obliged to post this: Never send a big dog to do a little dog’s job.
Maybe I’m wrong but I’d think that if you killed the adults, the young would be more vulnerable to predation and generally be more apt to die early. So you’d have the knock-on effects of no adults and whatever young wind up inside a puma or coyote or whatever eats undefended young boars. But I’m assuming some fairly young young. Probably you’d have enough intermediate aged boars to pick up the slack.
Semi-related article, describes how to us temperature and terrain to determine where boar will be
Brian