• Is it okay to "Hunt" feral pigs with a minigun?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW8nA_UNuBg Video's a little old, but haven't seen it posted on facepunch while searching for it. I'm personally 50/50 on the subject because they're essentially a pest and need to be controlled, but at the same time, it's pretty overkill. (The video of them releasing the pigs from a cage and them mowing them down is 100% not okay obviously.) I've seen quite a few people argue that hogs shouldn't be treated as hunting in the same way you'd hunt any other animal and instead should be treated as pests from how out of control they are.
Feral hogs are fucking terrible. There are two sides to this argument. People who haven't dealt with them, and people who have. Anyone who has will tell you that they'd have no problem dropping a mortar on them.
Yeah, funnily enough a dude said he'd love to use a grenade launcher on em if he could in the video. Gave me a good chuckle from how absurd it sounds.
If a feral animal like them can harm the environment and others, I wouldn't disagree with keeping the numbers down in any means necessary(are they apparently worse than cows from the population levels and their crap being high on toxic elements like phosphorus?), but taking a minigun to caged animals is crossing the line on being sadistic.
Releasing them from a pen to shoot them kinda removes any argument for pest control.
They're already feral. You can't exactly release them, or give them over to a zoo/shelter. It's a quick way to kill them. Even having 4-5 feral hogs on land, they can do a lot of damage within a day.
It just seems like a waste of ammo and unreliable way to get rid of hogs.
Feral hogs are as mean as they are unstoppable. Just shooting them once or twice, if you don't nail them directly in the head or heart, runs you the risk of getting seriously injured or killed by it. They're not like deer where if you shoot them and they don't drop immediately they run away, they're gonna get pissed and God help you if it finds you. And their sheer rage and adrenaline means that they'll chase for as long as they can before they bleed out. So I don't think it's that overkill. They are a tank of an animal, and full of unbridled hog fury. But the cage thing is stupid. If you've already captured it, put it down humanely and eat the damn thing.
I think other full-auto weapons are fine, but miniguns are pretty wasteful just due to the ammo costs.
The issue for many is when the killing of these starts looking like cheap entertainment.
from the looks of the setup they have its probably not so cheap lol if duke nukem's taught me anything its that minigun is def. the way to go when killing pigs
I am with Kab. Hunting is a super ethical sport and shouldn't be taken as Shoot A with B. Even to kill an animal is to have respect to do it. It's why you don't have decent folk playing with dead animals just because they killed them.
The answer is yes.
Just because they're feral / a problem doesn't mean it should give agonizing deaths the greenlight. This is as retarded as people defending usage of rodent traps that make them drown rather than instant kills just cause you (might) get a few more a night.
to be fair a minigun firing 2,000 to 6,000 7.62x51mm rounds a minute is likely a swift death as opposed to agonizing.
And yet you can miss a good majority and just hit its back and legs. That being said, it may happen to 1 out of many, but it's still agonizing.
For a brief but extremely confusing moment I thought the title said "federal pigs"
Usually the goal is to kill the animal your hunting as quickly as possible. If it decides to sprint through the forest with half a lung hanging out a bullet hole there's not much that can be done there.
If you're going to use a minigun on hogs, fine, but don't capture them and release them to get your rocks off. There's always a chance that they'll get the fuck out and then you've got more hogs on your hands.
Then it's the hunters job to end the misery of the animal. As far as I am aware, almost every hunting community and licensing organization requires you to adhere to the need to finish off the animal if the first shot did not end it's life.
how can you argue that hunting with a larger, more deadly gun is less humane because the animal might not survive? what do you think they're killed with normally?
The one guy talking about them being invasive, I mean, we as Humans, we really can't talk about some animals being invasive.
Well, Trump isn't exactly a pig, but he's certainly pigheaded.
Right now it's quite common to see ranchers hiring helicopters to hunt hogs, shooting from the air with AR-15s/AR-10s. The FAA would probably frown on permanently attaching miniguns to those helicopters but I can't imagine a more efficient way to get the job done. There is seriously no faster way to cover a large ranch and no more reliable way to kill the hog than a minigun. I don't really like killing animals, especially with any non-instantaneous method, but hogs are a scourge and slower methods that are guaranteed to not cause suffering don't really exist for hogs. They are unrealistically tough animals that can walk off .300 winmags through force of hate alone. Having dealt with wild hogs I'm pretty sure they naturally produce PCP and are not aware of any pain or damage to their bodies.
The fuck has this got to do with the thread topic Can no on ever enjoy or read or do anything with bringing him up?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXESZERb1dc
Lit vid right ere as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5uOSkPcZ4
I was only replying to another poster. I suppose it was off-topic though, sorry. I don't really know much about feral pigs even. Are they a bit like boar? They look like weird versions of them. In terms of the thread topic, it's hard to make a judgement as to whether or not this is a good idea for me without fully understanding how shitty they are to have around. Still, miniguns are supposed to have insane RoF, so I assume it's unlikely to leave them in too much suffering, even if it seems quite an inefficient system.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/a-plague-of-pigs-in-texas-73769069/ Check this article out. They are way worse than boars, this article goes into specifics.
IF THEY RUN, THEY'RE FERALS IF THEY STAND STILL, THEY'RE WELL-DISCIPLINED FERALS
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