I hope I don't offend anyone, but judging by some of the responses here, some people don't have a clue what a pain in the @ss those marauding little b@stards are.
I swear, since fur prices have dropped over the years, there are so many around that I could walk across my field at night, stepping on their backs and never touch the ground.
Cute? Tell that to my chickens that they torment night and day.
One day (at NOON!) I heard my free range chickens squawking and ran to see a big coon chasing them over a small rise and into the woods. I grabbed my shotgun and followed into the woods. As I topped the same rise, I see the whole pack running straight back at me . Chickens veered right of me, chickens veered left of me, but that old boar took a 12 ga load straight in the face. No heart shot there.
Heart shots at coons? Unless you have dogs tree them, they're just flitting shadows at night and I don't have time to mess around with 'sporting' shots. Left, right. or in the @ss, I don't care.
Get the feeling I don't like them?
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Like I said, no offense. I just get on my soap box when people drag out a Bambi attitude about being nice or sporting to certain 'cute little forest creatures'.:angrysoapbox: