Legality

• Possession of live wild hogs is illegal. This means trappers are obligated to kill at the trap site. They may not release or relocate the animals to a different site.
  
  

License

• Wild boar hunters are required to carry a Kentucky hunting license. A license can be purchase online, via the phone or in person at one of many vendors located statewide.
  
  

Roads

• No hunter may shoot wild boar across roads or hunt from motored vehicles. Hunting in medians is prohibited.
  
  

Hours

• Hunting is legal from 1/2 hour before sunrise until 1/2 hour after sunset only.
  
  

Trivia

• Wild hogs are not indigenous to North America. They are Euro-Asian descendants thought to originally have been introduced to the continent by Christopher Columbus.