Wild hogs have lived in South Carolina for hundreds of years and can be nuisances. They’re known to destroy farm land and eat young livestock.

Later, in the early 1900s, wild boars were brought over and set free for hunting purposes. The boars bred with the feral swine and created the destructive feral hogs seen in South Carolina today.

The number of hogs are increasing all over the state, according to a 2016 Clemson University study, an estimated 130,000 to 140,000 wild hogs live in South Carolina.