I gotcha Judge, I guess I'm just trying to get at the fact that it doesn't matter how you do it, a dead pig is the only kind of good pig there is. Slim, kill him any way you see fit cause in the end if you're happy with the kill that's all that matters.
If a dead pigs the only good pig there is then you're the enemy to the great sport of hog dogging.When all the hogs are gone what are we going to do?
Enemy to the sport? LH I'm not sure where you're from but if you are worried about ever running out of hogs move to my part of Texas. I'm gonna try to give you an insight into my views since you gave us yours about only killing what you can eat, which is a very respectable way to do things. My first responsibility is to my livestock. Pigs and predators are a nuisance to me. Pigs will tear up crops that feed livestock, root up holes for calves to step in and break their legs, tear up roads, etc. I both want and need to control and limit their populations. I don't want to exterminate them entirely and never in my lifetime could I. They breed too quickly and take over habitats. That being said, I love hunting and I love dogs so hunting with dogs is an awesome combination of both things. If I can use dogs to help control the pig numbers and help me do a job I already need to do while making it even more enjoyable (watching dogs work, hearing bays, etc.) that is even better. But I will never cut a pig and turn it back. A cut pig can still do just as much damage as it could before. I'm gonna kill pigs whether I have to bay them and catch them, bay and shoot, just shoot them, get in a helicopter and shoot them, trap and shoot them or sell them, whatever because it has to be done. I'm always gonna have pigs cause even though I kill more each year than I did the year before, more keep showing up in better numbers and bigger, meaner pigs. I'm all for getting meat if it is reasonable to do so but I wont lose sleep over killing a pig and leaving it. Of course all that is just my opinion and you don't have to agree because it doesn't make a difference to me.
