Whatever buddy. I have hunted my entire life and have seldom met folks like you. I also never thought I would see the day that someone would defend a dangerous pest such as a wild boar. The Boar’s are an invasive species and we would be better off without them. Can’t you understand the people and the Gov. want to get rid of as many of them as possible. Unfortunately, the things breed like rabbits so it’s near impossible.
> Whatever buddy. I have hunted my entire life and have seldom met folks like you.
Pleased to introduce myself, then.
Shooting firearms out of moving vehicles (helicopters or trucks, it doesn’t really matter) at animals isn’t called “hunting” in my books.
It’s called “dangerously playing with guns” or “unsafe discharge of firearms”, and it is an excellent way for people to get hurt or killed in the bush.
And it gives people like PETA lots of excuse and plenty of dramatic, gruesome footage to use against hunters. It gives hunting a really bad image.
> I also never thought I would see the day that someone would defend a dangerous pest such as a wild boar.
Sure, wild boar are dangerous: so are moose, so are bears. So is just about anything worth hunting. But who has the gun, who has the dogs, who has the Bowie knife — you or the wild boar? These hunting tools even equation out somewhat.
That is why hunting is a sport, a noble pastime.
As to wild boars being pests, that may well be: they can take over if they have no natural predator, and that happens if they have been artificially introduced to an area and are not naturally occurring. In which case they may need to be exterminated.
We do the same thing here with rabbits and with possums. We use 1080 poison for that. And if there are only a few of them around, we’ll use .22s.
But that’s not hunting: that’s pest control.
Given that wild boar is delicious food, much nicer than domestic pork, I don’t know why some entrepreneur doesn’t just round up the herd cowboy-style and drive them into a cattle pen for market. Restaurants worldwide would probably pay top dollar for wild boar.
That isn’t “hunting” either, but it will probably not give much gruesome footage to PETA either.
Something similar happens here in New Zealand with wild horses in the Kaimanawa Ranges. Some get adopted out, and some go to market as pet food.
> The Boar’s are an invasive species and we would be better off without them. Can’t you understand the people and the Gov. want to get rid of as many of them as possible. Unfortunately, the things breed like rabbits so it’s near impossible.
They would be much like possums and rabbits here, both of which are introduced species. It was a serious mistake for these species to be introduced to our islands, and they are both at the stage where irradicating them will be next to impossible without using something drastic like a custom-built disease.
Sure, I can understand the need for that to happen, as well as it to happen to your wild boars. I support that. That’s pest control.
But it isn’t hunting, and it shouldn’t be sold as hunting, or described as hunting.
Every easter in Otago they have an Easter Bunny Shoot. Otago is in South Island, with grasslands and foothills much like North Dakota. The rabbits have taken over. So, over the Easter Weekend people gather in Otago from all over the country, and kill rabbits over the weekend. Thousands of them.
It’s not hunting, but it is fun.