Thursday, September 01, 2011

"Hey, fellow Texans!  Now that it's legal, why not hire a
helicopter, grab your blaster, and hunt up some feral pigs?"
Posted by Fearguth at 8:19 AM
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5 comments:

Old Jules said...

Morning to you. It's been legal all along. The multi-thousand acre ranch just over the hill from me to the east hires those guys occasionally to do precisely what they're doing in this photo. The first time it happened I thought they had some jailbreak person over there they were shooting it out with, but then they came over here and hovered a couple of hundred feet over the cabin and I could see it wasn't a government chopper.

I asked a game warden about it and he explained it was all on the up-and-up. The wild hog population gets all out of hand in these parts if left to itself. Rich folks don't like it any better than I do. What they're doing isn't sport, isn't pleasure killing. It's damage control.

J

10:31 AM
Fearguth said...

If you wish to kill feral hogs that are damaging your property, that's fine with me. I assume that your property in the Hill Country isn't big enough to require a helicopter.

10:45 AM
Old Jules said...

Fearguth: I don't own any property. I live on a property owned by a friend. But the hogs the guys in the helicopter were killing only have 1/2 to 3/4 mile to come do a lot of damage I don't need. The ones they slaughtered by helicopter saved me having to do it. If killing wild hogs by chopper could be up there in the spectrum of most destructive, obnoxious, unethical, ridiculous activities big ranchers and land owners indulge in they'd be paragons of virtue in my book.

I'd one hell of a lot rather see them killing hogs from a helicopter than read the political signs they put on their front gates for the edification and education of traffic on the highway, for instance.

I'm not denying their venality, greed, malignancy in general, I'm just suggesting this particular focus isn't without merit. Those hogs aren't all that different from the guys hiring aircraft to slaughter them.

I can't find it in myself to oppose anyone hiring a helicopter to slaughter hog folks. J

11:32 AM
Fearguth said...

You make a good argument. I was thinking more of this http://www.huntinghog.com/ and this http://hoghunting.com/

11:53 AM
Fearguth said...

Old Jules,

To further complexify the issue, check out these two stories:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/opinion/high-above-the-hog.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0911/62487.html

4:44 PM

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