I want to say this again so there is no misunderstanding.
The problem we have here has nothing at all to do with how hard or easy it is to catch a barr. This has nothing to do with the history and heritage of barring hogs. It has everything to do with teams trying to skirt the rules or outright cheat.
The barr issue has just got tangled up in the discussion.
The problem is with barrs, boars, and/or sows being "moved". Any movement and releasing of any feral hog is against the law, no question about that.
Therefore anyone who "moves" hogs to sweeten up a place for a contest, free range or not, is in violation of the law and those teams are not going to pass a polygraph.
This is the best post on the subject yet!!!
I had a long talk today with another tournament holder today who is doing the no barr thang in his tournament this year. He asked me what I thought about the no barr rule. I basically said I feel he and others are discriminating against us piney woods hunters. The reason I feel this way is I hunt in MY area and in MY area people have been barring hogs for years so I might catch a barr or two and for it to be banned just aint right. Another reason I gave is that in the piney woods our boars simply do not grow to the size as boars in farm lands or feed lots where food is no problem. I may be wrong on the last statement but I do not think so, I have hunted quite a few different areas and this is for sure been the case. I have yet to see a boar over 250-260 be taken from our woods. The other statement I made was that our area just does not have the number of hogs that others have..We have hunted for weeks at a time and never get on a hog. I told him just exactly what silverton said above, that sows and boars could be relocated just the same as barrs. these tournaments that are going to ban barrs are taking the only thing that makes us competitive away from us. I will step down from my soap box now.
there are enough rules in the world as it is.. lets just enforce the rules that already in place and have been working for years already.
