ButCANNED hunting is not part of our tradition. If it gets out to the main stream public that some little kid shot a pig in a 160 acre pen, that will only give hunters a bad name to the general public. Which leads advocates to protest and more gun control laws. CANNED HUNTERS ARE A PLAGUE TO THIS TRADITION AND THEY NEED TO REALIZE THAT. People who shoot game in a pen are not hunters in anyway. They are just target shooters. All these guys go and shoot 200" deer and put them on the wall and act like they are some great hunter and it makes me sick. Whats so funny is that most of these guys are the ones who get joked on for shooting 6 points back at home. I dont get it.

I'm from Alabama where this hog was killed. The fact that this hog was shot in a small high fenced area isn't even being disputed by the people who run the place. So I guess you don't know them or their land as well as you think. Furthermore this kids dad has paraded these photos and his mostly BS story around to every internet, TV and media outlet on the planet like the kid killed a Grizzley bear with a pocket knife or something. Hell, anybody willing to write a check big enough could have shot this hog. And if you check what that place charges ("2 Dollars Per Pound") to shoot a hog you would have to be a grade A moron withway moremoneythanbrain cells to pay over 2000 dollars to kill a 1000 lb half domesticated hog in pen. We consider them a pest animal down here. Most land owners would pay you to kill a hog off their land not vice versa. Furthermore the fact that the kid had to shoot that many times at a penned hog is something to be ashamed of not to brag about. Seems like a little marksmanship training would be in order. Buying him a gun he can actually handle rather than that ridiculously oversized hand cannon would be a good start. Hell with 16 shots I could kill a bull elk with a pellet gun.

Buying a penned hog for waaay too much money and having your "can't hit a bull in the ass with a base fiddle" son totally ass up the pen cull slaughter of it is nothing to get on TV or the internet and brag about.

Your opinion.... It is still legal, and as such we need to support it. If we allow the antis to have high fence hunts, then where do they stop??

They have already gotten the Cal mnt lion hunts, now they are having problems.... they are going after dog hunts now... and archery...

We need to provide a line, and I say the line starts here.

Have you ever done a high fence hunt?? It aint as easy as you think... course, if you are as big a hunter as you claim, then drop down to utilizing only trad gear...

elitisism is what is going to kill our tradition.

Hell i hope they get their way on this one. Free range will never be banned and guns will be before bows if anything because of crime. You must be a Can hunter.

Just ran across this story again on MetaFilter and went to the website again. Lots and lots of e-mails added to the page. The pig may or may not be that big- but the story is huge and the controversy even bigger. Doesn't seem like this leads to anything but bad publicity for hunting. (Opposition to hunting, weapon choice, canned hunts, et al.).

Kinda wish now I had never even seen it- no matter how impressive the beast is. (And he is impressive, no matter his real size and weight.)

You really think free range hunting will never be banned??? Are you really that naive??

Look at Ontario's black bear... Look at California's mountain lion...

Its people like you, who are more allied to the PETA jerks then you want to admit.

FYI - I hunt almost 1200 acres of FL ranch land, and have access tothat much in North FL (trad bow only), plus am a member of a GA hunting lease... aint no high fence in any of those.

But I do participate in an annual hog hunt in Tenn within a compound.... its whole lot harder then you think, and a whole lotta fun.

They got rid of bear hunting down here in Florida too!

sonuvabeach... forgot that one too....

but yeah, they got our bear hunting too.....

so tell me again how free range hunting will not be outlawed??

Cwgtahoe and Sewer Rat

I read a couple of your posts and regardless of who started it. I decided to lock this topic up, which I apologize to the person who originally posted it.I realize people are going to have difference of opinions so all is well, however. I have to give you both a warning due to HNI rules #2, and 8.

So in short, keep it civil and adult like, thanks


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