> 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 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.