TexasCHLforum.com

Just for the record, the actual title of the bill is, "AN ACT relating to sport hunting of feral hogs by helicopter."

I'm just guessing that the bill's author called it hunting because it provides an additional exception to the prohibition against hunting from aircraft.

You can always find someone who says your sport isn't a sport. Bow-hunters might think shotgunners are wimps.

- Jim

Oldgringo wrote:Commercializing the killing of hogs, or any other wild creature,...
... and we don't need to be giving them fuel for their flames of hatred and self-rightousness.

I see that aspect a little differently.

Feral hogs are not wild, no more native to Texas than fire ants, and a threat to genuine wild animals (as has been pointed out).

Anti-hunters already hate hunting, weapons, and any killing of animals, even slaughtering domestic livestock or poultry for human consumption. Most are fanatics, and some are clinically insane.

They could not hate more than they already do.

- Jim

Texas Rep. Sid Miller (R-Stephenville) has filed a bill, HB 836, that would legalize hunting feral hogs from a helicopter.

The proposition seems impractical to me, as feral hogs are nocturnal and furtive; but the entertainment value of watching anti-hunters' heads explode will be priceless.

- Jim