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This is an honest reply. It really depends on the situation. Feral hog sounders are a very scary thing, and fairly common in areas that commonly vote against their own economic interests. That bit in the Hannibal the cannibal movie, about the pigs, holds its share of truth. But in a city things that are necessary outside of one should be appropriately regulated.
That meme about European woodland being pleasant and the American woodland being a hellscape, is not very far from the truth.
Why can't I fight the feral hogs with my brass knuckles?
Because they have 4 hands and you only have 2 so you're outgunned already, imagine if they took your brass knuckles
The only answer for a bad ungulate with brass knuckles is ... Alright, I got nothing here
Another honest reply from a european, is commonly known in italy that if you want to have troubles you can always go to the country side and do a stroll among the fields and in the woodlands where based on the area you can meet friendly beasts like hogs, bears, wolves and drug dealers hiding on trees and holes in the ground making animal noises or whistling and you can find wandering drug addicts, if you cross path with one that is high enough you have a machete fight at your hand if you are lucky enough to not find the one with the handgun and if you start smelling weed an nobody is around it means you are near a cannabis plantation you can try to get some in the spirit of the adventure but be careful the local mob could think you are snitch and zero you before you can even grab a flower, so come over and bring your sword this fairy tail is awaiting you.
But on a more serious note since i roamed for real these places at night i ensure you that the woodlands are scary as it can get both if you find an animal or a person, the woodlands are the perfect place to hide for animals and shady people all over the world, this is not fantasyland and memes are just jokes.
Here an example articles about hogs destroing cocaine stashes in the woods
https://www.newsweek.com/italy-drug-bust-wild-boar-hidden-cocaine-destroyed-smuggling-operation-1471472
Plus two other on topic
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2016/11/15/police-clear-milan-drug-dealing-wood-in-huge-op_e86a036a-c453-4672-ac44-e678136e7311.html
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2021/09/30/priest-caught-buying-cocaine-in-tuscan-wood_4a5e3a2a-9847-4eea-af20-a373ea8020df.html
I want to answer honestly as well. I looked up the numbers, and we have 2 million wild boars in Germany. Germany has roughly the size of Montana.
High estimates say, there are 9 Mio in the US, 3 Mio in Texas (twice as large as Germany). So the numbers are rooouuughly comparable, a little more swine here in DE.
I guess, the feral hogs are really back to being wild nowadays despite stemming from domesticated pigs. So I will classify them as scary as a wild boar. Which they are, they are scary.
How do we manage this? Each year about 600 000 boars are shot by professional hunters. The general population doesn't need weapons for that. And the hunting rifles are bolt action or single action, not automatics.
The main damage they cause is not to live and limb, but to property, namely crop fields. Our solution is, that each hunter is assigned a district and a number he must shoot. If the farmland in his area is damaged more than x% that is also his responsibility.
This sounds like forming some kind of anti hog military force.
Yeah Europe forgets it killed it's scary megafauna. America has grizzlies and wolves and the boars are invasive with no natural predators
Coyotes and Skunks are more a nuisance than Grizzles and Wolves where I live. Wish there was something we could feed the skunks so they didn't stink up large areas. Then again they'd probably be killed by Coyotes if they didn't stink so bad.
Yeah right? Or is americans that are afraid to admit to themselves they dont know shit and assume things ?
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/wild-boars-are-wreaking-havoc-in-europe-spurring-creative-solutions
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/23/europe-carnivores-predators-bears-animals-continent-scientists
https://www.lifewolfalps.eu/en/misconceptions/no-il-lupo-non-e-stato-reintrodotto/
Ah I wasn't aware your conservation efforts had yet borne fruit.