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<blockquote data-quote="crkckr" data-source="post: 2847145" data-attributes="member: 78056"><p>While deer hunting in Northern CA we'd occasionally run across porky's and even the forest service guys said to shoot all of fhem you see due to the destruction of trees in the area. I've killed a few of them but usually hit them with my deer rifle (.270 or .308) so there's not usually much left over!</p><p></p><p>My ex-witch loved to get out and deer hunt with me but basically she was a city girl even tho she was raised on a farm in Minnesota. She's the one that actually packed a hair dryer for a camping trip, which should be an indication of her thought processes!9</p><p></p><p>So we are driving to a camp site, way off the beaten path at night and I see this huge porky waddling down the dirt road we are on so I tell her to get out and shoot this big boy. So she gets out of the truck, finds her .243, loads it and comes up to the front of truck. Meanwhile I find and get my spotlite plugged in. She puts the rifle up to her shoulder and sees the porky in her scope and says, "oh my god, it's soooo ugly!" Bang! She puts a 95 gr Partition bullet into him. Ok, not exactly thrilling but you had to know her and it really was funnier than all get out!</p><p></p><p>Something you can't see during the day is when you plug them with something high velocity like a .243, is they unleash a cloud of quills that is visible in the spotlite! One less tree killing porky on the loose. (and yes, I know it's not not legal to "hunt" or shoot on a road, at night, in CA, even 35 or 40 years ago. Some things are easy to get away with depending on your location).</p><p></p><p>I can't speak for others when it comes to killing critters but I have never gotten a "thrill" from it. A sense of satisfaction from a spot and stalk on a nice buck or elk, absolutely. Some of these animals are not easy to harvest and it takes work to get a shot in them. Sometimes they get stupid and make it easy for you but I think that's relatively rare. At least that's been my experience.</p><p></p><p>But shooting a porky is not hunting, it's more of an execution. It's for a reason - they are quite destructive - and in area's where there are a lot of them the trees can take a serious beating. So thinning them out has a purpose. But I don't think of it as fun or thrilling. I suppose some do get a kick out of killing little critters but I'm just not one of them.</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>crkckr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crkckr, post: 2847145, member: 78056"] While deer hunting in Northern CA we'd occasionally run across porky's and even the forest service guys said to shoot all of fhem you see due to the destruction of trees in the area. I've killed a few of them but usually hit them with my deer rifle (.270 or .308) so there's not usually much left over! My ex-witch loved to get out and deer hunt with me but basically she was a city girl even tho she was raised on a farm in Minnesota. She's the one that actually packed a hair dryer for a camping trip, which should be an indication of her thought processes!9 So we are driving to a camp site, way off the beaten path at night and I see this huge porky waddling down the dirt road we are on so I tell her to get out and shoot this big boy. So she gets out of the truck, finds her .243, loads it and comes up to the front of truck. Meanwhile I find and get my spotlite plugged in. She puts the rifle up to her shoulder and sees the porky in her scope and says, "oh my god, it's soooo ugly!" Bang! She puts a 95 gr Partition bullet into him. Ok, not exactly thrilling but you had to know her and it really was funnier than all get out! Something you can't see during the day is when you plug them with something high velocity like a .243, is they unleash a cloud of quills that is visible in the spotlite! One less tree killing porky on the loose. (and yes, I know it's not not legal to "hunt" or shoot on a road, at night, in CA, even 35 or 40 years ago. Some things are easy to get away with depending on your location). I can't speak for others when it comes to killing critters but I have never gotten a "thrill" from it. A sense of satisfaction from a spot and stalk on a nice buck or elk, absolutely. Some of these animals are not easy to harvest and it takes work to get a shot in them. Sometimes they get stupid and make it easy for you but I think that's relatively rare. At least that's been my experience. But shooting a porky is not hunting, it's more of an execution. It's for a reason - they are quite destructive - and in area's where there are a lot of them the trees can take a serious beating. So thinning them out has a purpose. But I don't think of it as fun or thrilling. I suppose some do get a kick out of killing little critters but I'm just not one of them. Cheers, crkckr [/QUOTE]
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