Well I live in Texas. If you want to retire and hunt some hogs and soak up a great culture while your retired then you should come here. I hunt hogs as about my only pastime these days, besides cooking but I'm a Chef so I cook for a living too. The hog hunting here is great over most of the state, so you will experience a huge diversity of hunting settings and experiences, all the way from the Piney woods, swamps, rivers, and the Big Thicket in East Texas, to the more hardwood forests, river bottoms, swamps, and open cow pastures and hay meadows sprinkled with hardwood trees in the east central part of the state, to the coastal plains and swamps along our huge Gulf Coast line, to the more open and hilly fertile farmland of the Blackland Prarie and Crosstimbers in central and north Texas, to the canyons, cedar and live oak thickets and lots of Hills in the Central Texas Hill Country, to the mesquite and live oak jungles and open cattle pastures and cropland of the Brush Country in deep South Texas all the way to Mexico, all the way up to the vast treeless wide open plains in the Panhandle. I dont know of West Texas having to many hogs. And all of totally different climatic, hardiness, and geographical zones are all in just one state, Texas. And all of those areas have huge pig problems. So if you feel like hunting in the Deep South just go bust some pigs in East Texas. If you want to hunt close to the ocean go to the vast Gulf Coast of Texas. If you want to go hunting in the wild west part of the country, just go to the Hill Country and West Texas and you will feel like your in the far southwest of the U.S. If you feel like you want an experience in Mexico, just go to South Texas. If you feel like hunting in the wide open plains like in the Central U.S. and the Midwest, just go to the Texas Panhandle.
All these different experiences, one state, Texas.
Plus all of our other hunting is great too, not to mention we have the largest Whitetail population in the country.
And we have absolutely no laws restricting hog hunting in anyway, shape or form. You can bait them, use dogs, use any kind of lights, use vehicles, use supressors, use night vision, use any kind of weapon period, no minimum caliber reqs., no seasons, no bag limits,no daylight or after dark restrictions, just no restrictions period on hog hunting here. People even use helicopters and fully auto ARs to hunt here and also some people hunt em down with dogs and kill em with knives. And you dont need any sort of hunting liscence to hunt hogs here or tags or anything.
I know I sound like a nativist, but hey there is also WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY more to Texas then hog hunting.