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abcaines said:
I'd love to go to one of those outfits where you rent an AR-15 (if you don't have one), they take you up in a helicopter and blast little piggies. Not sure you come away with any meat but it's (cost) effective hog control.

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Culling should be done by people who don't get a thrill out of it.
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
I think the lines are blurry depending on the hunter. Unfortunately, I’ve known a couple of “if it flies, it dies” guys. I go out of my way to avoid them. The actual killing part I’m not fond of, but I enjoy the pursuit and the benefit of the meat—whether duck or fish. Most hunters are the biggest animal lovers and conservationists you’ll find. Because I only get to hunt a few times a year, I’ve had entire seasons go by where I never shot my gun. I still enjoyed getting out in nature and the anticipation of a duck. I also still donate to Ducks Unlimited every year because they do more than anyone to help restore and purchase wetlands.
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it;s a very unpopular view for those on the left... ...but had it not been for sport hunters - the laws they lobbied for - and organizations they started like ducks unlimited - certain species of animals now hunted during specific seasons under license would have become extinct in north america.. .. ..it;s a fact i don;t like any better than the left does... but sport hunters were the first conservationists - and the reason they wanted wild lands preserved and laws against poaching passed was so the land and the animals would be there when they got ready to go hunting.... .. the left with it;s animal rights activists and peta were late comers to the fight over preserving land and wildlife..... and in their view the very same people who started the whole thing are now their enemy......
 
DrHuk&Duck said:
I hunted wild boar once down in the Glades area. I ended up with a small one. A buddy and me processed it and cooked it in a variety of ways. It probably would have tasted a lot better if I’d done luau style. Anyway, it wasn’t really my thing. I just enjoy being on the water better. No offense to people who hunt boar. I actually respect that because they’re very invasive here.
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not long after the beginning of the pig removal project we were actually told to focus on shooting the smaller pigs whenever possible.... the svelts... juvenile females that would be breeders the following year..... . the wildlife guys told us that was the best way to reduce the population of wild pigs quickly.... ......i;m not sure about that theory... .. and didn;t like the idea at all.....

but right after that meeting we were hunting up in ka;au crater and i heard them moving in the brush closeby. ... so i went there and shot one exactly like they described then carried it back to camp..... when my sister saw it she said... "aww - it looks like arnold from green acres... .."..... and i immediately broke into tears then started crying.... ..(i cried a lot easier back then than i do now) ... to make matters worse my sister started laughing...

but a few hours later when night fell we ended up cooking it for dinner... .. we did that with a lot of the smaller pigs we shot on those hunts....... 10 times better than any pork you can buy in a market.. . ....a few days after we got back she posted something on the old fff forum about it..... ...told the whole story... .. but that ended up being what got me started writing accounts of our pig hunts on the forum... ..i wrote quite a few of them back then... most people liked them....

one downside about hunting wild boars is you can just as easily become the hunted as the hunter... especially at night... .. they can be vicious... and once they go the attack they do not stop... ..you have to plan out the way you hunt them very carefully
 
aleshanee said:
not long after the beginning of the pig removal project we were actually told to focus on shooting the smaller pigs whenever possible.... the svelts... juvenile females that would be breeders the following year..... . the wildlife guys told us that was the best way to reduce the population of wild pigs quickly.... ......i;m not sure about that theory... .. and didn;t like the idea at all.....

but right after that meeting we were hunting up in ka;au crater and i heard them moving in the brush closeby. ... so i went there and shot one exactly like they described then carried it back to camp..... when my sister saw it she said... "aww - it looks like arnold from green acres... .."..... and i immediately broke into tears then started crying.... ..(i cried a lot easier back then than i do now) ... to make matters worse my sister started laughing...

but a few hours later when night fell we ended up cooking it for dinner... .. we did that with a lot of the smaller pigs we shot on those hunts....... 10 times better than any pork you can buy in a market.. . ....a few days after we got back she posted something on the old fff forum about it..... ...told the whole story... .. but that ended up being what got me started writing accounts of our pig hunts on the forum... ..i wrote quite a few of them back then... most people liked them....

one downside about hunting wild boars is you can just as easily become the hunted as the hunter... especially at night... .. they can be vicious... and once they go the attack they do not stop... ..you have to plan out the way you hunt them very carefully
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On a similar note, my BIL is occasionally contracted to help kill off wild pigs in the northern Florida area. He’s invited me along a couple times but hasn’t ever worked with my schedule because they tend to do it at night. Anyway, they always butcher the meat, fill up a couple coolers, and donate it to some poor areas of town. Legally, the meat can’t be sold.
 
I just bought 3 acres next to my son in TX and we will hunt wild boars on it. No license needed. they are a pain in the neck, rooting and digging up the ground wherever they go. But we eat them.
 

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divers weights.... which we never keep in the bags with our other dive gear...... .... and if you are famliar with both deuteronomy 25-13 and proverbs 20-10 you know the reason why......;)

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just kidding..... the real reason they don;t go into the bags is they are too heavy.... they will rip the bag open .. make it impossible to carry.. or destroy everything else in it........ they are heavier than all the other pieces of dive gear combined....
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abcaines said:
I'd love to go to one of those outfits where you rent an AR-15 (if you don't have one), they take you up in a helicopter and blast little piggies. Not sure you come away with any meat but it's (cost) effective hog control.

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i;ve seen videos online made by a company called night crew that is contracted to rid farms of wild pigs that have taken over by the hundreds... ... they hunt at night with infrared and thermal scopes and the camera lens is tied in with the scope on the rifle.... .....they shoot as many hogs as they can as fast as possible before the herd scatters into the woods or fields..... the wait for the her to reform and start tearing up the ground again - then start over.... ....when the sun rises they show the damage the pigs did to the ground the night before...

nothing like that is possible here in hawaii.... in fact hunting with firearms on most of oahu is banned.... it;s all either archery or dog and knife hunting... ..and it;s a very slow task trying to rid the island of excess pigs... .. but they say we have made progress.... . due to the nature and topography of a jungle mountain rainforest wild pigs will never be totally eradicated ... ... but as long as they are not seen moving in herds down city streets or chasing terrified hikers down trails in broad daylight then i guess the state can call it successful management......

picture of mainland night vision pig hunt posted to keep the spirit of the original post in this thread alive....
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Bob Jones VI said:
Coyotes are a nuisance there, they'll kill and eat anything. We finally got one. Actually our dog got one cornered at 1 am and my son shot it.

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these guys control nuisance coyotes by using dogs trained to go out and lure the
coyotes into rifle range... .it;s a ploy the coyotes use in order to lure dogs away
from a farm then attack them enmasse and eat them.... only this time it is a
tactic that is turned around on the coyotes... pretty ingenious in my opinion..


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It may be time for a break from the obsession over the ugliness of a nature in rebellion against mankind.

The daughtero was a student assistant for an elementary art teacher when she was in high school. She had them making clay models one week. Anthropomorphized avocados were one subject. She brought a few home and I posed them in a diecast metal toy truck.

Family photo! lol

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an old practice in the american southwest is hanging coyotes killed in culling operations from fence posts..... the reasons according to some is to serve as a warning to other coyotes to stay away.... .. but then knowing the family structures of coyotes and their ability to thrive in the face of inbreeding you could just call this a post mortem family photo...:sneaky:... they attacked as a pack and they died as a pack.... the ones who were the smart coyotes are lonely.....
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this is the kind of deep sea fishing reels they had on the boat i worked on a few years ago... ... okiaya pro-nationals....
not the most expensive reels on the market but can still handle anything out there that would bite a lure.... the line
they were loaded with was rated at 80 pounds test... but the biggest fish i ever saw reeled in with one weighed 690
pounds at the auction block scale... .. a pacific blue marlin.... ..

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Ekklesian said:
Culling should be done by people who don't get a thrill out of it.
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great...... so when are you signing up?....... is anyone else you know who doesn;t enjoy that kind of hunt - volunteering to help?..... ...you don;t have to answer here - we can discuss it in the other thread you started.... .. i just saw this here and thought i would ask....
 
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