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US forest issues kill order for feral cows in New Mexico
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<blockquote data-quote="WYO300RUM" data-source="post: 2752693" data-attributes="member: 32631"><p>s a huge difference in manpower, equipment, and time to physically move 150 animals weighing 800 to 2000 pounds from a wilderness area versus simply shooting them from a helicopter. You would have to plan where animals could be shot to be accessible within short time period to prevent spoilage and be safe working environment for people on the ground. A few crews working it would likely take weeks to get that many animals out. Shooting and leaving animals lie is less concern for shot placement (meat loss and animals running) and locale becomes unimportant. A good gun crew with military thermal imaging for location and weapons targeting could probably get the job completed over a weekend. If you really wanted it done fast they could task a local air national guard unit to fly Blackhawks in using the chaingun and be over in a few hou</p><p></p><p>The topic is not how to kill the cattle or best weapons. It's based on the shooting and leaving to rot. I'm sure if they let hunters have free access to them, groups of hunters could pack out a butchered cow. Let wranglers round them out and they are theirs. No tags, license, nothing. Feral animals. Not indigenous game animals. I'm sure the herd would get thinned. Most likely reservation cattle. They just want to blow taxpayer money and have fun at it. Reminds me of Ca.. Making you buy pig tags . A feral animal. Coyote tags next ? Have bobcat tags now. Have to have pig tags for private property also . The ranches wouldn't make any money off the pig hunts if they were shot out and fish and game would lose precious revenue . In Texas no tags and they have no problem shooting hogs from helicopters. But if they were shot out no more ching ching $.</p><p>This thread went south. I'm about done with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WYO300RUM, post: 2752693, member: 32631"] s a huge difference in manpower, equipment, and time to physically move 150 animals weighing 800 to 2000 pounds from a wilderness area versus simply shooting them from a helicopter. You would have to plan where animals could be shot to be accessible within short time period to prevent spoilage and be safe working environment for people on the ground. A few crews working it would likely take weeks to get that many animals out. Shooting and leaving animals lie is less concern for shot placement (meat loss and animals running) and locale becomes unimportant. A good gun crew with military thermal imaging for location and weapons targeting could probably get the job completed over a weekend. If you really wanted it done fast they could task a local air national guard unit to fly Blackhawks in using the chaingun and be over in a few hou The topic is not how to kill the cattle or best weapons. It's based on the shooting and leaving to rot. I'm sure if they let hunters have free access to them, groups of hunters could pack out a butchered cow. Let wranglers round them out and they are theirs. No tags, license, nothing. Feral animals. Not indigenous game animals. I'm sure the herd would get thinned. Most likely reservation cattle. They just want to blow taxpayer money and have fun at it. Reminds me of Ca.. Making you buy pig tags . A feral animal. Coyote tags next ? Have bobcat tags now. Have to have pig tags for private property also . The ranches wouldn't make any money off the pig hunts if they were shot out and fish and game would lose precious revenue . In Texas no tags and they have no problem shooting hogs from helicopters. But if they were shot out no more ching ching $. This thread went south. I'm about done with it. [/QUOTE]
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