It's copywrited

call my magazine for my .223 fairchase i got cheap posts.

Again, so what? It's America. It's their group. Their organization. Their magazine. Their right to express their opinions. Their members' right to join and support them.

So what's the problem?

If you don't agree with them, don't join. Don't read the magazine.

I will add the TTHA bills itself as "The Voice For Texas Hunting".

Again, so what? It's America. It's their group. Their organization. Their magazine. Their right to express their opinions. Their members' right to join and support them.

So what's the problem?

If you don't agree with them, don't join. Don't read the magazine.

I will add the TTHA bills itself as "The Voice For Texas Hunting".

In another thread, one of the denizens here mentioned swinging a small hog around by it's rear legs and bashing it's head on a solid object to kill it. I staunchly disagreed with his method and said so. Long story short, I'm not going to change his mind and he is not going to change mine. I brought up Fair Chase and another person chimed in re: guns, suppressors and night vision, baiting, etc... I do not currently use any of this except the guns. I have used suppressors and night vision before clearing hogs for a farmer but do not use them for sport.


But anyway, it was hijacking another thread so...

Boone & Crocketts hunter ethics are posted as:

1. Obey all applicable laws and regulations.

2. Respect the customs of the locale where the hunting occurs.

3. Exercise a personal code of behavior that reflects favorably on your abilities and sensibilities as a hunter.

4. Attain and maintain the skills necessary to make the kill as certain and quick as possible.

5. Behave in a way that will bring no dishonor to either the hunter, the hunted, or the environment.

6. Recognize that these tenets are intended to enhance the hunter's experience of the relationship between predator and prey, which is one of the most fundamental relationships of humans and their environment.


Other items considered may be:

•The hunter herded or spotted the animal from air and then quickly landed to pursue.
•It was herded or chased by a motorized vehicle.
•Electronic communication devices are being used.
•It is confined by artificial barriers or transplanted for commercial shooting.
•It is trapped or drugged.
•It's swimming, trapped in snow or helpless in any nature.


Currently I walk and stalk in the woods. No supps, daytime only, no baits, no calls, just hunting tracks, sights and sounds. I regard this as pretty fair.

What about the rest of you? What do you think of Fair Chase and how much, if any, of it do you apply to your hunting?

We have some pasture land being developed down the road from my house. This year we have had more rats around than normal. They run the lateral boards on the privacy fence and I like to sit outside in the evenings with my pellet rifle and pop them. Last night this huge brown rat finally made a mistake and stopped on the fence. It was in a lower light area and I hurried the shot as well. Apparently I hit it a little far back. I finally found it in some grass by the fence and tried to finish off with a good stomp but the wet ground was soft enough that I wasn't effective. It took off through the chain link and limped under they neighbors storage building. I'm fairly certain it will die but I know it will be a lingering death. Even though it's a rat I still feel a little bad for not making a better shot and a clean kill.

So if you want to talk about killing hogs I'm good with that. But intentionally wounding or brutalizing pigs just because they do what they do to survive in there natural course of life and trying to justify it because they are a non native animal only makes you pathetic. And the discussion about doing whatever is "legal" is never the end all be all of a discussion.

Just think about it. At one time in our great nation it was "legal" to rape, beat and murder a young black girl because she was "property". I can't even fathom having the lack of humanity to even begin to do that much less justify it.

Just because a pig isn't a "game animal" doesn't justify cruel and inhumane acts in our efforts to hunt and kill them.

We have some pasture land being developed down the road from my house. This year we have had more rats around than normal. They run the lateral boards on the privacy fence and I like to sit outside in the evenings with my pellet rifle and pop them. Last night this huge brown rat finally made a mistake and stopped on the fence. It was in a lower light area and I hurried the shot as well. Apparently I hit it a little far back. I finally found it in some grass by the fence and tried to finish off with a good stomp but the wet ground was soft enough that I wasn't effective. It took off through the chain link and limped under they neighbors storage building. I'm fairly certain it will die but I know it will be a lingering death. Even though it's a rat I still feel a little bad for not making a better shot and a clean kill.

So if you want to talk about killing hogs I'm good with that. But intentionally wounding or brutalizing pigs just because they do what they do to survive in there natural course of life and trying to justify it because they are a non native animal only makes you pathetic. And the discussion about doing whatever is "legal" is never the end all be all of a discussion.

Just think about it. At one time in our great nation it was "legal" to rape, beat and murder a young black girl because she was "property". I can't even fathom having the lack of humanity to even begin to do that much less justify it.

Just because a pig isn't a "game animal" doesn't justify cruel and inhumane acts in our efforts to hunt and kill them.

New Boone & Crocket World Record ... Taken by Automobile . He lived on the same piece of property since 2009.

Except for when it played in the rd, which seemed to be its Achilles heel.

Again, so what? It's America. It's their group. Their organization. Their magazine. Their right to express their opinions. Their members' right to join and support them.

So what's the problem?

If you don't agree with them, don't join. Don't read the magazine.

I will add the TTHA bills itself as "The Voice For Texas Hunting".