BRIAN QUACA OF Groesbeck earned a “Telly” award for his television series recently, and was featured in a story in the July 2 issue of USA Today. Brian “Pig Man” Quaca of Groesbeck hosts a series for The Sportsman Channel and has earned a 2010 Telly Award for outstanding outdoor television production.

He was also featured in the July 2 edition of USA Today.

“Pig Man: The Series” debuted in January of this year and gives viewers and fans an inside look into the hunting trials and tribulations of Quaca as he travels the world in search of wild hogs along with many other species of game.

Quaca is the creator, host and executive producer of the series.

In the July 2 edition of USA Today, Michael Hiestand, who covers sports television for the newspaper, wrote this:

‘Pigman says boars are

wild, and never boring---

Brian “PigMan” Quaca earned his nickname. He’s had wild pigs ram his truck - “people say you’re making that up, but no, they’ve rammed it” - and figures the 50 square miles around his home near rural Mexia, Texas, is “the pig capitol of the world, or at least the United States.”

He takes advantage, he says, of the abundance: “I’ve got 4,000 places around here to shoot pigs. We’ll probably kill some pigs this morning.”

And he’s turned his persistence into TV sports. The Sportsman Channel’s PigMan, The Series (Sunday, 10 p.m. ET) debuted this year and is now already starting its second season of original episodes. “Most (outdoors) shows have an offseason. I kill year-round.”

And in creative ways, given “we kill pigs with anything we possibly can. Literally.”

Which makes sense given he’s not talking about farm animals. He’s seen a captured wild pig weigh 645 pounds, ended up with 58 stitches from one that charged him - “you’ll see the scars this season” - and often finds ineffective old bullets lodged in wild pigs he fells.

Quaca, who helped neighbors repel pesky wild pigs as a teen, says they’re no easy prey: “You can shoot ‘em with high-powered rifles and, if you don’t hit the right spots, they run off like you’ve just dusted them.”

Upcoming PigMan episodes include the wild boar Quaca killed in New Zealand, which, he says, set a South Pacific record for “tusk size,” as well as treks to states to try to verify unconfirmed reports of the presence of wild pigs.

Noting he’s seen wild sows give birth to batches of 18 piglets, Quaca sounds confident his series will never run out of new material: “There are people who already have pigs. And there are people who will have pigs.”