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Old September 9, 2011, 01:35 PM   #20
Art Eatman
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Join Date: November 13, 1998
Location: Terlingua, TX; Thomasville, GA
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Hunting is not just for the package of enjoyments from successfully killing Bambi. It includes the effort at predator control; predators don't volunteer for euthanasia. Skill at hunting is common to the success at killing either Bambi or Wily.

An example of the economic result of predator control. I happen to know that the rancher used hunting as well as trapping. Fresh out of college, he borrowed the money to put 1,000 goats on the 7,000-acre ranch. That next spring he gained a 60% kid crop.

After a year of intense predator control, the next spring saw an 80% kid crop.

That's an increase of 200 goats. From Post #1, call it $160 x 200 = $32,000.

Happy banker, happy tax man, happy wife and kids.

I mentioned cougar depredation earlier. FWIW, I know from personal experience that cougar meat is yummy tasty. So: When shooting a cougar, is that predator control or hunting in the sense that twins uses the word?
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