Only if it’s fattened and slaughtered properly. One you shoot that’s been free grazing may be worse than any deer. Especially if it’s 10 years old!
Think I'm going cow hunting
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Art Eatman
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Enuf. 
Art Eatman
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Reopened. tarosean was generous enough to hunt up the law.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/AG/htm/AG.142.htm
Two places mention "perilous situation". As written, only the sheriff/deputy can take action. So if the neighbor's bad Brahma bull charges you when you're out in your pasture, take your cell phone and call the sheriff's office. Help is only hours away.
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/AG/htm/AG.142.htm
Two places mention "perilous situation". As written, only the sheriff/deputy can take action. So if the neighbor's bad Brahma bull charges you when you're out in your pasture, take your cell phone and call the sheriff's office. Help is only hours away.
burrhead
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Here is another cite that's relevant to this discussion.
Sec. 143.033. INJURY TO TRESPASSING ANIMAL. If a person whose fence is insufficient under this subchapter maims, wounds, or kills a head of cattle or a horse, mule, jack, jennet, sheep, or goat, or procures the maiming, wounding, or killing of one of those animals, by any means, including a gun or a dog, the person is liable to the owner of the animal for damages. This section does not authorize a person to maim, wound, or kill any horse, mule, jack, jennet, sheep, goat, or head of cattle of another person.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1345, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 958 (H.B. 1819), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Sec. 143.033. INJURY TO TRESPASSING ANIMAL. If a person whose fence is insufficient under this subchapter maims, wounds, or kills a head of cattle or a horse, mule, jack, jennet, sheep, or goat, or procures the maiming, wounding, or killing of one of those animals, by any means, including a gun or a dog, the person is liable to the owner of the animal for damages. This section does not authorize a person to maim, wound, or kill any horse, mule, jack, jennet, sheep, goat, or head of cattle of another person.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1345, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1981.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 958 (H.B. 1819), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
shoobe01
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Friend of mine used to have a lovely piece of empty land in MO we'd hunt and otherwise mess about on, but now it's sadly all houses.
Relevant to this story, an adjacent rancher had one of his cows go feral. It Got Ideas and kept escaping, etc. One time, it couldn't be caught, so he finally put out a bounty on it. Unclear how, but he formally declared this particular cow to be a nuisance to the public order, so anyone could kill it on sight.
Guy who got it finally was another neighbor, came around the corner in his truck to a stop before entering another road, cow is standing in the road 8 ft away. Passive, but it goes nuts w/o warning, so he puts a .45 (from his Sig 220) through the forehead. Works! DRT. Calls it in, Sheriff and owner approves identity, they cut it up on site (it's a cow!) and split it up.
Relevant to this story, an adjacent rancher had one of his cows go feral. It Got Ideas and kept escaping, etc. One time, it couldn't be caught, so he finally put out a bounty on it. Unclear how, but he formally declared this particular cow to be a nuisance to the public order, so anyone could kill it on sight.
Guy who got it finally was another neighbor, came around the corner in his truck to a stop before entering another road, cow is standing in the road 8 ft away. Passive, but it goes nuts w/o warning, so he puts a .45 (from his Sig 220) through the forehead. Works! DRT. Calls it in, Sheriff and owner approves identity, they cut it up on site (it's a cow!) and split it up.
MCgunner
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There were at least a dozen and a half out on unfenced neighbor's property. These folks are weekenders and don't have gardens out here, so they just have to put up with the cow patties. After that, I don't know where they went. The guy that owns 'em might have figured out they were missing after half his herd got out. Or, someone out here is grinding burger meat as I type this...ain't me, though. LOL Don't think cows care much for tomatoes, squash, or okra as they haven't messed with that. Worms got into my tomatoes, I killed 'em off with some seven, but that's another story for a gardening thread.
Meanwhile, I have two hogs coming to my feeder pretty regular between 9:30 and 10:30 PM. I KNOW they're legal to shoot. Soon as I get all these various doctors visits done, I'll be after 'em. Meanwhile, I guess if I catch the cows in here again, I'll do what I did before and pepper 'em with 7.5 shot from my 20 gauge. It's satisfying seeing 'em jump in pain and take off running down the road. I really doubt, at the ranges I'm hitting 'em, the shot is doing much more than stinging them. I've had a 7.5 pellet hit me in the upper lip before from about 75 yards and didn't even leave a mark. They seem to have short memories, though. Cows are stupid.
After that, I don't know where they went. The guy that owns 'em might have figured out they were missing after half his herd got out. Or, someone out here is grinding burger meat as I type this...ain't me, though. LOL Don't think cows care much for tomatoes, squash, or okra as they haven't messed with that. Worms got into my tomatoes, I killed 'em off with some seven, but that's another story for a gardening thread. Meanwhile, I have two hogs coming to my feeder pretty regular between 9:30 and 10:30 PM. I KNOW they're legal to shoot.
Soon as I get all these various doctors visits done, I'll be after 'em. Meanwhile, I guess if I catch the cows in here again, I'll do what I did before and pepper 'em with 7.5 shot from my 20 gauge. It's satisfying seeing 'em jump in pain and take off running down the road. I really doubt, at the ranges I'm hitting 'em, the shot is doing much more than stinging them. I've had a 7.5 pellet hit me in the upper lip before from about 75 yards and didn't even leave a mark. They seem to have short memories, though. Cows are stupid.
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Art Eatman
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What's written in Post #28 is contradictory. The fence is to keep cattle IN, and is the responsibility of the owner of the cattle. "Insufficient" would be blowback against the owner of the loose cattle.
All of which is beyond the scope of this forum as a place to talk about hunting. So, for those to whom the legal aspects have relevance, go off and think about it.
Sayonara.
All of which is beyond the scope of this forum as a place to talk about hunting. So, for those to whom the legal aspects have relevance, go off and think about it.
Sayonara.
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