Iwanttoshootbettter
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Stupidest thing I've ever herd sorry no info to back it up but if some wants to add confirmation.We hunters know good n well these beasts are a problem to farmers n ranchers.Im may not be the smartest man but poison is just plain stupid Here's what I'll say to those who think ranchers and outfitters charging to hunt is the sole reason for the overpopulation of hogs.....you're crazy. If outfitters or landowners charged $1 it would be too much to these folks. There has to be a financial gap stop in place to justify the liability associated with allowing property access to people with weapons (gun/bow/dogs). Period.
Just simply stating that overpopulation should be controlled by introducing a poison pesticide into the ecosystem for an animal that has an average home range of 2 miles, most of which often includes natural property boundaries such as creeks and lakes, is insane. Not to mention that the table fare is extremely edible and often consumed by humans and other predators/scavengers. So hypothetically, a farmer, who I very much have he utmost respect for, has 400 acres of bottom ground which often gets torn up by hogs during planting season. That farmer decides to poison the hogs causing the damage. The hogs eat the laced bait and travel off his property onto a working cattle ranch with 5,000 head of cattle and die in the feedlot. Now what? The cattle get sick and die because their food and water sources are contaminated? And who's idea was it to poison an animal that roams 2 miles into another man's form of income? Or maybe 1 of the hogs on the cattle ranch gets picked off by me? I open up the hog and don't notice any blue fat so I eat it. But come to find out the hog did have poison in its system, just not enough to be fatal and now I'm consuming meat with poison in it. So do I put myself or my family at risk because we like to eat wild pork? Or do I quit hunting hogs for fear that the meat has some level of poison in it and I'm in a moral quagmire because I like to eat what I kill?
The point is, damage is damage. Want to stop the damage, build a fence....or a wall in Don's case. If you have intruders impacting your way of life, protect your turf. I'm just saying don't poison the problem and turn it loose onto your neighbors property. That's irresponsible and what we as sportsman should be 100% against. Like I said, I love farmers and the ag community, but these are feral hogs, not mice. Make sure you understand the collateral damage before you introduce something you can't take back.
Just simply stating that overpopulation should be controlled by introducing a poison pesticide into the ecosystem for an animal that has an average home range of 2 miles, most of which often includes natural property boundaries such as creeks and lakes, is insane. Not to mention that the table fare is extremely edible and often consumed by humans and other predators/scavengers. So hypothetically, a farmer, who I very much have he utmost respect for, has 400 acres of bottom ground which often gets torn up by hogs during planting season. That farmer decides to poison the hogs causing the damage. The hogs eat the laced bait and travel off his property onto a working cattle ranch with 5,000 head of cattle and die in the feedlot. Now what? The cattle get sick and die because their food and water sources are contaminated? And who's idea was it to poison an animal that roams 2 miles into another man's form of income? Or maybe 1 of the hogs on the cattle ranch gets picked off by me? I open up the hog and don't notice any blue fat so I eat it. But come to find out the hog did have poison in its system, just not enough to be fatal and now I'm consuming meat with poison in it. So do I put myself or my family at risk because we like to eat wild pork? Or do I quit hunting hogs for fear that the meat has some level of poison in it and I'm in a moral quagmire because I like to eat what I kill?
The point is, damage is damage. Want to stop the damage, build a fence....or a wall in Don's case. If you have intruders impacting your way of life, protect your turf. I'm just saying don't poison the problem and turn it loose onto your neighbors property. That's irresponsible and what we as sportsman should be 100% against. Like I said, I love farmers and the ag community, but these are feral hogs, not mice. Make sure you understand the collateral damage before you introduce something you can't take back.
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