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Originally Posted by pikeslayer22
Hey sjemac if you want to hunt and kill a trophy horse so bad, board a plane to South Africa and kill a Zebra...If the hunt your proposing ever coes to be it will be the demise of hunting as we know it in Ab...the Antis will be all over it!
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I have no desire to shoot a trophy feral horse since the challenge would be about the same as knocking one down in a fenced pasture.
Hunting NEEDS to be the accepted method of all animal control in wild environments. The toehold the anti's need is to be allowed to show that non-lethal control of an animal population works. Should the feral horses set the standard, then why not have non-lethal control of all wildlife?
"We don't need to kill animals to control populations -- look at the wild horses. It worked there," they'll say.
Why should the horses be treated any differently than we do feral hogs, over-populated deer, or excess dogs on reserves? When we set a special set of rules for just one species we set a dangerous precedent that will have far reaching effects and be ultimately more dangerous to hunting in the long run.