I've been an avid hunter all of my life, but get a bit confused when I see something like this. I guess my burning question is why reintroduce them if you're going to hunt them? Though I'm sure if I were someone like Bing for instance, a man who makes a portion of his livelihood raising livestock in areas in which the wolf was reintroduced, I'd feel very differently.
Here in Texas, I'm about to take up a new prey for sport, but one that devastates people's pastures and yards, carries disease and wreaks havoc on the local deer population in more ways than one. Feral hogs in Texas multiply faster than rabbits and it's time for me to get into some medium sized game hunting that will do people and animals some good. I'll wait until after deer season to get all of the deer hunters out of the woods, as here in Texas, you may hunt hogs year round. Regardless, the feral hog population here continues to explode. To make it even more sporting, I intend to set up only take shots in excess of 200 yards (a little shade tree sniping). TPW is begging people to kill them and I've got a friend, young man that I work with actually, that makes quite a supplemental income trapping and killing them in order to save people's property. Having said that, if I were to see a bobcat, or were to see a cougar in the woods, let alone a grey wolf (none in Texas they say) , he'd walk.........they eat on feral hogs, among other things.
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