To: monday
Seal skins with bullet holes in them are not worth as much money.If you can get close enough to club them with a baseball bat, chances are you can get close enough to kill them quickly with a pistol. A bullet through the skull is a quick, painless death. No wasted holes in the pelt, quick and easy.
If this were being done to control the size of the 'herd', then there should be a reasonable number of seals that are 'harvested'. I have heard of no limitations on this.
24 posted on
04/12/2004 11:41:05 AM PDT by
Hodar
(With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
To: Hodar
"I have heard of no limitations on this"
The first sentence of the article says...
"The government is allowing more than 300,000 seals to be killed this year, many of them in a 36-hour mass cull."
It is a lot, but there are limits.
25 posted on
04/12/2004 12:30:13 PM PDT by
monday
To: Hodar
If you can get close enough to club them with a baseball bat, chances are you can get close enough to kill them quickly with a pistol. A bullet through the skull is a quick, painless death. No wasted holes in the pelt, quick and easy. Calculate the cost of 300,000 bullets.
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