Lathern Hull was born in Scott County in 1968. "My grandfather, who was half-Cherokee, started me hunting before I can remember," he says.

Lathern started hunting wild boar in the mid-1980s, both with dogs and without. "I have taken 300-plus boar from the Big South Fork NRRA in my 20-plus years of boar hunting," he says. "Most kills were by tracking them to their bedding areas."

In 1992, Lathern began guiding boar hunts at a local hunting preserve, and has since opened a reserve of his own.

"From the time I started hunting hogs, I have witnessed over 4,000 kills from myself, my friends and my clients," he says.

Lathern enjoys hunting everything, but wild boar is his obsession. "I do not claim to be the best boar hunter but I do claim that I love the sport more than anyone," he says. His goal in hunting wild boar is to take a boar from every state that has them and to hunt boar in Europe.

E-mail Lathern Hull at Lathern@tnhunting.com.