Pervert minds do pervert things

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

I'm doing my part! But I don't need a minigun

Na bitte - geht doch!

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Na bitte - geht doch!

Does that mean (more or less) "Well there you go!"

[Platapus]

There is not a better more humane way to deal with these wild hogs?

[Wolferz]

Originally Posted by Platapus

There is not a better more humane way to deal with these wild hogs?

Hunt them with a knife. Then you'll both be on an even playing field.

[August]

Originally Posted by Wolferz

Hunt them with a knife. Then you'll both be on an even playing field.

I once hit a German wild boar with an axe handle right between his beady little eyes. It didn't even stun him.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

I once hit a German wild boar with an axe handle right between his beady little eyes. It didn't even stun him.

Sherman tank crews had a similar problem....

Originally Posted by Platapus

There is not a better more humane way to deal with these wild hogs?

Would that that were the case, but boars are very very tough creatures, and if they get a hold of you they will mess you up in a very big way, heck, kill you given half the chance. Probably the best humane and cost effective way is a high powered rifle.

Let's face it, even Lions given hogs respect in Africa and will generally only go after them if they are very hungry. Those tusks do not mess around.

EDIT: Could try sterilisation, I suppose...but there's no telling what kind of effects that would have further down the food chain, like the attempt to reduce the rabbit population in Australia by introducing Myxomatosis, which then spread outside of Australia and became the rabbit version of the Black Death.
The way I look at this kind of thing is, if you skin and cook that boar for dinner then that's fair enough, killing for the sake of killing is not something I can really get behind.

[Red October1984]

I know it's not legal to do that here...but dang....

There are some people who really flip when they've got unwanted animals on their property but this is a new level of animal massacre.

Half of me is thinking that this is horrible and the other half is thinking "This could be useful..."

We have beavers that build a dam on a creek my family owns. They built it, water levels raised and washed away the only spot where it was safe to cross in a vehicle. Now, going out to the farmland/hunting land is very very inconvienient. We nearly lost a truck in the creek because of this. A few years back we got several beavers but they keep coming back. We gave up.

This would take care of the beavers, the dam, the trees around the bank, and the other debris. Idk. It's illegal and sorta sick I guess.

These beavers, however, have proven to us that they do not give a rip what we do to make them leave. At one point, they started weaving the dead bodies of beavers into their own dam.