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AtheistCrusader

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11. You can, and some people do.
Fri Jan 18, 2013, 12:31 AM
Jan 2013

Most people in the 'business' just kill them and leave them where they lay, which I find abhorrent. It's a waste of meat. They are rarely clean kills. Needless suffering.

Some people bait and poison them, which has knock-on effects in other populations, like carrion birds, coyotes, etc.

Some troll popped in here a few days ago to extoll the virtues of shooting them from helicopters. He didn't last long, and the video was infuriating.

I prefer people hunt them, kill them as humanely as possible, and actually utilize the meat and hides. Waste not, want not. There's a guy that actually hunts them with the Cold Steel boar spear, which is double tough, and uses a thermal imaging homemade UAV to scout them out. Funny mix of old and new.

Hi, I hunt. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #1
Wild boar are a nuisance where you live? Where do you live? ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #2
Where do you live? XemaSab Jan 2013 #3
I live in Western Montana. ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #4
They haven't gotten across the columbia river into WA yet. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #12
Wild pigs wreak havok on ecosystems. alarimer Jan 2013 #5
They're not indiginous? Where are they from? nt ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #6
brought here by Europeans Kali Jan 2013 #7
So the people who hunt them generally eat them? ZombieHorde Jan 2013 #9
yes but Kali Jan 2013 #10
You can, and some people do. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #11
Not here, no. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #8
one reason it is easy to 'collapse a wolf pack' G_j Jan 2013 #14
That was a sad article. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #16
They ruin the habitat for native species. Mojorabbit Jan 2013 #18
not ALL ranchers Kali Jan 2013 #13
Good point. Thank you. AtheistCrusader Jan 2013 #15
I forget where but G_j Jan 2013 #17
you can probably imagine how well that works out Kali Jan 2013 #19
is it direct knowledge of this G_j Jan 2013 #21
not direct for me, no Kali Jan 2013 #22
I say, if you have a dead and half eaten cow, Volaris Jan 2013 #23
I absolutely agree. Owl Jan 2013 #24
Wanna-be apex predators hate competition = humans. flvegan Jan 2013 #20
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