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IN NY State New Law
woodshed87
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March 10th 2015
DEC Says Mute Swans Are an Invasive Species And Need to Go
Illegal to Posses Turn Loose Etc.
Last Year they Made it Illegal to Shoot Wild Hogs
How do you Spell Dumb Fudgers
What is This State Turning into
God Help US
Woodrow[:(]
DEC Says Mute Swans Are an Invasive Species And Need to Go
Illegal to Posses Turn Loose Etc.
Last Year they Made it Illegal to Shoot Wild Hogs
How do you Spell Dumb Fudgers
What is This State Turning into
God Help US
Woodrow[:(]
Comments
Woody, are you serious? You can't shoot wild hogs in NY State? They are just about the most destructive non-native animal ever let loose upon American soil.
SSS
Who? Us?
[:D][:D]
1. We declare all hogs ( and now swans) as domestic free range animals. Thus, shooting a pig or swan is no more illegal than killing a chicken for dinner.
2. For those disinclined to Option 1 I suggest the "SSS" method (Shoot, shovel, and Shut Up).
3. For the truly insane... Follow DEC regulations. Welcome the little fellows onto your property and treat them with respect. (The pigs or swans that is.) This will enable the DEC to more easily trap and deal with these creatures. Frightening them with gunfire is counterproductive and to be avoided.
And for the majority of DEC field officers the above is not intended as a poke at you. Years of experience and observation lead me to believe that most of you have a keen sense of what to see and what not to see. You folks walk a fine line between reality and Albany and you do a pretty good job of it. I even admire your ability to maintain a straight face when telling folks that the big kitty cat they just observed was nothing but a domestic house cat viewed from the wrong perspective.
Now I guess I'll be off to harvest the porkers who disappeared from my custody last fall. Damned pigs always seem to escape don't they?[:I]
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/37136.html
Their argument on how the hunting of these pests actually makes it harder to eradicate them:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/94891.html
It's on page 36 of the 2014-2015 regulations:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/37136.html
Their argument on how the hunting of these pests actually makes it harder to eradicate them:
http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/94891.html
Anytime some anti-gun government group, like NYS, brings this type of tripe up I remind them of a few things. (1) American Bison, (2) Wolves in the lower 48 (3) Grizzlies east of the Mississippi (4) the American Puma (5) Canadian Geese and finally, tragically (6) the American Indian.
All of them done in exterminated or depleted to critical levels by Americans with firearms.
These wild swine are no different. If there is incentive to hunt them, a bounty of $200 a head or so, it will save the state money in the long run and assure all the hogs die. It is not done this way because the government thinks it KNOWS best and wants the POWER.
Reading the regulations, you can shoot them if you can convince the bureaucrats that the boars are damaging your property or livestock. Obviously these bureaucrats have decided they know best and the rest of the citizenry are morons, So the odds of being authorized are very slim.
Isn't this usually the problem with government at all levels?