"An explosion of wild pig populations has become such a nuisance that hunting seasons are being flung wide open for wild hog across the nation."
"Until the shot rang out, the air was so quiet the circling bumblebee sounded like a chain saw and the woodpecker its construction crew.
Clambering down from the 16-foot-high deer stand, hunters walked over to the pig wallow they had been staring at for the last four hours. A large boar rushed past at a speed unimaginable for an animal its size. The hunt was on.
Fast, smart and dangerous, the wild boar was once the most prized hunter's catch in ancient Greece.
Now it is becoming a popular target of hunters in the United States. An explosion of wild pig populations has become such a nuisance that hunting seasons are being flung wide open for wild hog across the nation."
Verna Gates reports for Reuters June 24, 2012.
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