Its been a while since I read the TN law but my takeaway was that "hog hunting" was relegated to landowners and x number of approved individuals. There is no regulation about killing every one you see! Any transportation of a live feral hog is a major problem with significant penalties. The intent of the law is to prevent the creation of a "hog hunting" industry leading to uncontrollable spread of the tasty but destructive critters. So far I have not seen any sign of them on my farm and the map showed them to be less than 4 miles away close to 10 years ago. Dont know if its the result of the law (haha) or our tendency to shoot and eat tasty critters :)