Shooting animals from helicopters is not “hunting”, anymore than shooting fish in a barrel is “fishing”.
People who hoon around in helcopters while shooting animals are not sportsmen or real hunters, they are yahoos with guns, and they ought to have their guns taken away from them permanently for being a public menace.
Same deal with hoons who shoot at animals from moving land vehicles. Arrest ‘em and take away their guns. They are a danger to themselves and to others.
What the he** is a hoon?
Is this being set up as hunting or as noxious animal reduction? If the point is that the State wants as many of these animals killed as possible and the shooter’s harvest of the meat is a secondary issue then I have no problem with this.
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.
“Shooting animals from helicopters is not “hunting”, anymore than shooting fish in a barrel is “fishing”.”
Agreed, is is not the usual type of hunting.
However, such ‘hunting’ is actually what biologists call “direct reduction” of a targeted population of animals.
Hunters, or other such humans with guns are vastly more controllable and more selective than mere predatory beasts.
Last I checked Texans don’t give a shit about what foreigners think about what we do.
If yer not careful we might send a few good ole boys down there and take yer guns away for the fun of it.