Hot air balloons aren’t just tourist attractions anymore. Soon, they may be the newest way to reduce the feral hog and coyote population in Texas. A bill to let Texans hunt feral hogs and coyotes from ...

Though a new Texas law allowshunters to shoot feral hogs and coyotes from hot air balloons, it's not easy to find a balloonist offering the activity. “I have never had a phone call from anybody asking ...

It was almost 2 a.m. on a moonless October night at a ranch in Caldwell County, just northeast of San Antonio. I sat next to Eli Smith in his small utility terrain vehicle, the engine off. Behind us, ...

Lawmakers in Mississippi are considering a proposal that would legalize the use of drones to hunt, trap, and kill wild hogs on private land year-round. It’s one of a handful of recent national efforts ...

Landowners, farmers and ranchers across Texas have at least one common enemy: The bands of feral hogs that rip through their land, causing over $500 million in damages each year. These descendants of ...

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 ...