That's for guuuuurls...
Posted on 02/19/2009 1:33:54 PM PST by redk
MERTZON, Texas (AP) — Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.
A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from helicopters.
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I heard a rumor that the state of Texas was going to go with a permitsystem on hogs @ $60 a year, have you heard that or is it just that, a rumor.
The article makes the purpose clear:
"Millions of wild pigs weighing up to 300 pounds have been tearing up crops, trampling fences and eating just about anything in their path in Texas. But now they had better watch their hairy backs.
A state lawmaker is proposing to allow ordinary Texans with rifles and shotguns to shoot the voracious, tusked animals from helicopters.
For years, ranchers in the Lone Star State have hired professional hunters in choppers to thin the hogs' fast-multiplying ranks."
Nothing on another board. Hogs are too much a pest.
Just keep close to a tree that you can quickly climb. Those piggies are vicious.
Shirt with no pants is gonna give Eaker a false sense of security again.......could be dangerous !
“....The only correct way to hunt wild boar is...”
Ease up there friend. Most of these are feral pigs, not indigenous wild boar. We have a similar problem in South Mississippi, but Katrina just put a dent on their population.
These are pests, rodents per se ....millions that are damaging crops. It’s control of a wild pig that has infested the ranch and farmlands of Texas.
But you might have know that before ya went off on yer rant had ya read the text.
Think of hunting these down as one would hunt down a criminal. No fair chase needed or asked for.
(grin!) fair enough. Context is everything, I guess. Feral-anything is fair play from helicopters: it isn’t “hunting”, it’s extermination.
Well, to a certain extent he’s right; I wouldn’t consider it sportsmanlike hunting either. I don’t consider bear hunting where you set up a pile of logs with bait under it and then sitting in a tree to shoot the bear while he’s busy digging to the bait particularly sportsmanlike either. But I don’t think that this means that there aren’t good reasons for doing either one given particular circumstance.
> But you might have know that before ya went off on yer rant had ya read the text.
Settle down, mate. The text mentioned “hunters” and the exercise you describe is not hunting, neither are its participants hunters. It is exterminating a pest species — which is a completely different matter.
Well the HELL with it, then!!!
What Judd ad?
Heck, if anyone here in TX is having a problem with these hogs, just give me a call and I’ll be happy to take care of a few for you, and I won’t charge a cent...
No your wrong. They ain’t standing on the highway with signs that say shoot me..... you still have to “”hunt”” em down.
My last....
Agree I never fly sober......
> I see you met Diehard, our resident PETA Representative.
Sticks and stones, mate. Which is probably the only thing they allow people like you to hunt with.
> No your wrong. They ain’t standing on the highway with signs that say shoot me..... you still have to “”hunt”” em down.
I guess on at basis you probably “hunt” mice with mousetraps, ay. That figures.
My last.
That's for guuuuurls...
Millions (?) of wild porkers. MILLIONS??!!!!
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