Santa Cruz Island

[1Irishguy]

I know this topic has been on before but this really ticks me off...
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050503/D89RM6U00.html

Out of country (let alone state) professional hunters? I'm sure a "couple of years" of this is costing the state a fortune. Plus we could be spending tag fees...that's money going to the State? One of these hunters must be related to a CA politician! I've heard of pork...but this is ridiculous!!!!!

An ideal public place to hunt...and they bring in "professionals" from New Zealand!

This pisses me off!

Off of my soap box now!

 

[1Irishguy]

And this guy is using a .223 out of a helicopter and making one heart and one shot every time. COME ON!!!!!
Then they will use infrared?

$5Million to do this??????????

 

[HOGHUNTER714]

. That story just kills me. That could be such a great oppertunity for hunters. As a tax payer it makes me mad to know end and as a hunter it just a waste. The DFG could get involved and set up a TON of lottery based hunts like they have done in the past. To think all of the meat is being wasted. You know they are not recoverying the game and processing it and giving it to needy familys. No logic behind this what so ever.

 

[Rookies]

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Macdonald and his eight-man hunting team from the New Zealand-based Prohunt Inc.[/b]

How hard would it be to start an organization like this one. Give me 5 million dollars and we can start our own "Jesse's Prohunter Inc." Sounds like a waste of my tax dollars. Don't even tell me this is the reason why they raised the prices on pig tags.

 

[DukeMaster]

the least they can do is provide the meat to some homeless shelter, food bank or me. Hell , I'd take my boat over and pick up the meat myself. I'd just meet them at prisoners or scorpion harbor.

 

[pbrdog]

Jesse's Prohunter Inc.

Where do I send my resume?

 

[BDB]

Yeah it burns me too to see money being spent when money could be made. But if the goal is total eradication that cannot be done by hunters alone. I'm sure there are lots of reasons for shutting down the hunting and killing them all. From ecological to insurance and logistic issues. I just wish the contract could have gone to a local company or group.

Yeah right, one to the heart and one to the head on a pig that is probably moving while you are leaning out the door of a chopper in the air. Sure. It is just a nice PC way of letting people know the little critters did not suffer one little bit during this "program". Good thing the general public is more or less cluless on many gun issues including accuracy. Many think that all you do is point the gun put the cross hairs on the target and you get pin point accuracy at long distances.

I always find it fun to hand my scoped rifle to a person who has never shot before and ask them to hold the cross hairs STEADY on a small object about 50 yards away and pretend to shoot it. They just don't get it. Too much TV crap.

 

[Rancho Loco]

This isn't game management. It's introduced invasive species eradication...

Goats, rats, cats, pigs - they're all bad for island ecosystems, and gotta go. The only way to do it is to use these methods, along with other draconian mesures.

 

[SierraExplorer]

Originally posted by Rancho Loco@May 3 2005, 04:38 PM
This isn't game management. It's introduced invasive species eradication...

Goats, rats, cats, pigs - they're all bad for island ecosystems, and gotta go. The only way to do it is to use these methods, along with other draconian mesures.

I will kep my mouth shut.

But I will hail an arm sign as you pass by with that thought...

Nothing personal Ranco- this is Game we are discussing about after all- yet all induced togther were capable of living equitably.

Until there it was "inequitable".

Managment is/WAS the key to this whole "Problem"

Show me a deer that swam there- I will show you a pic of a pig that took a boat.

(I am NOT busting your balls- just disagree

)

Your Bro,
Dan

 

[Rancho Loco]

The deer were introduced also.

Check this...Sometimes it isn't about hunting.

 

[SierraExplorer]

Agreed Brother !

It is Managment AND Conservation!

(I owe you a sixpack of Sierra Nevadas now.

and I will be honored.

)

Dan

 

[SierraExplorer]

Originally posted by Rancho Loco@May 3 2005, 08:40 PM
Sometimes it isn't about hunting

Rancho- this is " JUST FOR an HYPOTHESIS of a Theory"

Then why were the deer brought there in the first place? Did not the people that brought the deer to the island not know how long of the ages that island sustained itself before- "Just the Birds".

(they are also non-native, but they can leave when they get a feather up their arse-

)

Why introduce deer if it was not "For Gaming"?

The piggies look as preaty as a deer to me- I actually tire of seeing the deer that I am not able to take for food lawfully. Add on top of that- I prefer "the other white meat"

 

[1Irishguy]

The two parts of this that kill me the most are...

$5M????????
A bit high for two years worth of work. I need to look for better employement!

and....

New Zealand?????
Nothing against those from New Zealand, but you are telling me these dollars couldn't be poured back into our own economy by hiring a US group?

This whole thing smells bad to me!