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.
A few years ago I came to the conclusion that there are different ways to hunt. I’m probably still with you that hunting out of a vehicle isn’t a sport. (Not sure where it IS considered a sport. These pigs, and Alaskan wolves (I think) are shot from vehicles for “resource management” rather than hunting. (Hmmm - how about a flat-bottom skiff for ducks?)
But after being with some guys that hunt cougar with dogs I changed my mind. It was a traditional method handed down to them. Or should I say they used to hunt that way - it has been outlawed in my state.
That is the other thing that bothers me. It is easy to grow up hunting deer and rabbit and think it “unsportsmanlike” to bait for bear, run dogs for raccoon and cats without seeing and doing it. (Heck, I even frowned on tree stands for deer).
Much like the liberals think that hunting with a gun, or a bird dog, is unsportsmanlike.
Sort of the “When they came for the bear baiters I did nothing, etc.” thing.
Back to the pigs - I recall some Discovery show where some guy offers to shoot the pigs on the farmers land for a fee, etc. Goes out at night, etc. He thought he had the place all scoped out and had layed his plan to ambush the pigs (hundreds of them). He didn’t see a single pig.
The following day they went back out to see where the pigs might have been the following night. They were one field over - only a few hundred yards away. The field was trashed.
This isn’t meant to be sport. This is folks trying to get rid of an invasive and damaging species - Not a thing wrong with it.