allaroundhunter
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Flint, hit one of 'em with that .450 SOCOM of yours and and give us a picture
Outstanding image capture.
If you kill an appropriate number of predators to keep them in check then your game populations are better. Thus trapping and predator hunting are needed to maintian a healthy balance.
FWIW I don't have any sympathy for ranchers, its a cost the doing business in the wild. If you think a percentage of your profit is worth disrupting nature you aren't a very good steward of the land.
Sorry but that statement is pretty much hogwash. As a "rancher" it is absolutely necessary to remove animals that will kill my livestock. Coyotes, feral dogs and cats, bobcats, raccoons can cost a rancher/farmer $1000s of dollars during calfing and/or with fowl. I don't know how many of the above can bring down a full grown cow but a calf is almost helpless.FWIW I don't have any sympathy for ranchers, its a cost the doing business in the wild. If you think a percentage of your profit is worth disrupting nature you aren't a very good steward of the land.
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Had skunks decapitate 9 chickens one time, and about 15 young quail in a pen once. It ate part of one and left all the rest..
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I think most predators in the wild kill for reasons other than food. Have you ever watched National Geographic and seen male lions kill cubs so that the female will come back into heat? Most males will kill other males for breeding rights. It is perfectly "natural" to remove competition for resources and it happens in the wild every day. Apparently nature thinks it is more "convenient" to kill your competition than it is to just move to another area.
Well you've painted your picture as a lesser of two evils and created a beautiful false dichotomy. Congrats.I have no idea how many predators I have killed in the past 30 years but it numbers in the hundreds and every season there are plenty more of them around so i don't think I have "disrupted nature" as much as a person that lives in a subdivision where trees once grew.