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.
> 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.
I took from the article and headline that it was “hunters”.
No real hunter would ever disgrace a wild animal by shooting at it from a helicopter. Certainly not an animal as worthy as a wild boar.
The only correct way to hunt wild boar is with pig dogs and a Bowie knife, with a partner with a shotgun/rifle handy just in case things get out-of-hand.
> 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.
I took from the article and headline that it was “hunters”.
No real hunter would ever disgrace a wild animal by shooting at it from a helicopter. Certainly not an animal as worthy as a wild boar.
The only correct way to hunt wild boar is with pig dogs and a Bowie knife, with a partner with a shotgun/rifle handy just in case things get out-of-hand.
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."