OldmanFCSA wrote:Back to Topic:
Farmers trying to get rid of Feral Hogs have no qualms about using Tannerite buckets near a food source. Large amounts is required to achieve a large result.
Ethical hunting - NO, but will reduce crop damages and other hogs will clean up the carnage.
With all respect, that’s nonsense.
Firstly, high explosives alone aren’t particularly effective killers- you need to get some sort of projectiles- and that is bomb making- and going to damage the crops too, as well as possibly kill people.
Secondly, baiting the area (whether to draw them into the kill zone or leaving the carcasses for other pigs to feed on defeats the purpose. Using Tannerite in this method is entertainment, and when you think of it that way, it’s pretty sick, given that you wound a bunch more than you kill.
If the farmers want the pigs off, there are two methods that work best. Trapping (most do live trapping so you can harvest the hogs) or poison. Poison is by far the most effective, but the bykill tends to cause problems, so it’s mostly illegal also.
Shooting can control them to an extent, but really what the money is about is compensation for hog damage... and talking to Texas ranchers, the damage from letting every Tom, Dick, and Harry on to shoot pigs is often worse than the pigs themselves. A motivated, ethical, responsible Hunter isn’t the problem, but most folks are not, if it isn’t their land. The rancher doesn’t know you, and the numbers you would have to let on to get control is substantial , so you have automatically ensured a number of slobs are on if you do that.
I also dislike the fact that they want that much money, but it is what it is.