SELFBOW
Senior Member
Once again, you are giving feral hogs the same status you would give to a legitimate game species. What you are saying is like telling a farmer he doesn't need to use herbicides because that is unfair to the pigweed.
Hogs are not legitimate game animals--they are pests, and farmers want every one of them gone, whether dog hunters catch them, Jager shoots them, or someone calls down lightning bolts from heaven. There is no such thing as "unfair advantage" when it comes to dealing with pests. Discussions of "fair chase" have no place in the mix.
In an earlier post you said something about paying Jager to come shoot the hogs. My understanding is that Jager's services are free to the farmer--he charges his clients for the hunt.
You also mentioned getting "fifty PMs" from people who want to hunt. As has been said over and over, we aren't running a hunting preserve. We don't want fifty people we don't know running around the farm. We don't need sport hunters. We need someone who is willing and capable of a massacre, a "wholesale wanton slaughter" if you will.
The reason it keeps getting pushed here is that here is where the people who can help if they will are located, and here is where at least some of the people who cause the problem are, also. Here is where the people who have the misconception that feral hogs are legitimate game animals are located.
Only thing being pushed here is Jager's self promotion of his business because he NEEDS hunters to pay for his services. The .50 cents a mile he used to get just don't cut it anymore...
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