Over culled?

[.270]

have no worries? Several once solid populations in England have been totally shot out, gone, all killed, no more left, others are on the verge of disappearing through over shooting. Just look at the replies to adverts on here for boar shooting, seemingly every man and his dog wants to shoot one (or more). The future for boar in the UK is incredibly bleak.

What will i do with my new paid for BOAR Certificate, with none in the UK.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Correct , for an intellectual Frans Vera made a remarkable error of judgement. Whilst correctly claiming that starvation & disease are natural events he absurdly overlooked the fact that herds of large herbivores mitigate these effects by migrating to new areas when their preferred forage has been exhausted, totally impossible in a fenced reserve!

Whoever would have thought that animals would move to a better food source? For that minor oversight old Frans gets my nomination for the Darwin Award.

 

[AGR]

I see the NGO are offering a boar shooting certificate in their latest newsletter. In view of the comments made on this thread, I can't see it being over subscribed.

 

[Klenchblaize]

No such thing as 'wild boar' in the UK anyway, as they went extict.



Get them all shot

And preferably with a Sako in 270 for the big boys and 222 for wee piggy?

K

 

[User00040]

And preferably with a Sako in 270 for the big boys and 222 for wee piggy?

K

More like .222 for everything, and aim for the eye...

Or better still give out the good news with a .22LR through the bars of the cage trap

 

[User00053]

Had chance to shoot a pig many moons ago As they drank at dusk, was told by foreign gentleman m16 no good for pig! Ak47 very good for pig! Was the only pig I have ever shot, found it days later following the stench!

 

[Penyard]

About 2 years ago, someone told me that the forest rangers were only shooting males, and selling about 40 tonnes of pig meat a year. Is this still the case?

Not the case and not sure it ever was.

 

[Penyard]

Need to revise the population estimate downwards, I’ve shot 2 this week

 

[Tregullon]

What will i do with my new paid for BOAR Certificate, with none in the UK.

In the same boat

 

[Tommo]

Culling has to take place, rewinding or not otherwise deer and boar will become dominant to the detriment of every thing else?

They tried a "no cull' approach in oostvanderplassen in the Netherlands and ended up with a major animal cruelty problem as population out grew the food sources and starved.

I believe there was also a TB and foot & mouth outbreak and everything had to be culled and incinerated? Or was that another experiment in the Netherlands?