I target sows specifically,
I really urge you to look up research on this being contraproductive
it is a general rule in pretty much all of Europe that you never shoot a sow with piglets, I can't speak for Eatern europe (they are gungho and shot everything including other hunters and dogs)
but populations in Germany and so on are relativly controlled and yet they shoot a million of pigs a year in Germany alone, probalby as many in France/Poland
and I would reckon that pigs are more a problem in farming areas then Texas? (I just get the impression that Texas is more cattlecountry)
I so would want to see Franz Albrecht go helihunting in Texas thou
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b43aF4R0h40
that man can shoot!