Open invite!!! BOAR RIDGE SPECIAL May 20-23

[rutnstrut]

Ok, this is my last post on the subject....

Ethics are ethics no matter what the animal aren't they ?

I have drove by Boar Ridge when down in Oklahoma visiting friends in a little town near there call Tryon. I drove by thinking that it may have been a opportunity for a good hunt, but what I seen during the time frame I drove by was high fence, burned out over grazed pasture and feeders.


If this was about a high fence Deer hunt would ethics be called into question then ?

I have been on this board long enough to see the reaction to high fence deer hunts, and really wondered why it was different hogs ? and why ethics are called into play when its deer and not called into play for other animals ?

Anyway I knew I was going to be popular posting this stuff and I am done with the subject.

Kinda sounds like you drove by BOW SAFARI instead of BOAR RIDGE, if thats the case then yes youre right that place is a joke. Really I dont think its a matter of what animal it is, more less a matter of how the place is operated. Yeah if it was like you make it out to be then I wouldnt be goin back, if they could only drink from one spot or had to use feeders to survive then yes that would be shooting fish in a barrel but that is deffinately not the case here. You couldnt be more wrong about boar ridge like I said in an earlier post it looks just like the oak timber I hunt here, not burned out pasture ground with no other food source than a feeder. Its also not the kinda place where you can pick your animal out of a book with a set price and then go shoot it. These were only stocked one time and have sustained themselves every since, theyre just as wild as a pig would be on the other side of the fence. I can kinda see where youre coming from though I had somewhat the same opinion before my first trip and believe me it didnt take me long to change my mind. I mean this isnt a 40 acre feed lot its a few hundred acres, how many times have you hunted a smaller tract of land and never seen a certain deer that you just know is in the area, so long story short the odds are still in there favor. Like Central Iowa said earlier he shot a hog a couple years ago that was one of the original stock and had been there 5 or 6 years, now how many wild deer in your area get to survive that long? Id like to know what your definition of unethical really is...what specific part or parts of this hunt makes it unethical in your opinion? I guess its the kinda thing that you cant knock it till you try it, because you have obviously been given the wrong idea.

 

[Fishbonker]

OK, well, since I was down there I guess I better turn in my ethics card. If European boars ran free and were not a threat to other local species then we wouldn't need to hunt them behind fences. By the way, the only fence I saw down there was at the entrance. The brush, cedar and oak trees are so thick you are hard pressed to see 30 yards in any direction.

I have shot my share of deer over the years. When I first started deer hunting from a tree stand I used to get an adrenalin rush that made me shake like a leaf when I saw a deer and I'd hyperventilate when they were close enough to shoot. Over the years I have been able to control that adrenaline. When that boar came in last fall it was like starting all over with the adrenaline. What a rush. I hadn’t felt that for years. If I have the hankerin to hunt a nonindigenous species that is kept behind a fence for the good of the indigenous animals I'll find a place that meets what I want and go again just to feel that rush.

Please guys, next year when you plan this give a fella a lot more notice, like 6 months or so.

The ‘Bonker

 

[rutnstrut]

Still one more spot open if anyones interested

 

[Central Iowa]

Free Iowawhitetail hat to the last spot left.

Room to add two people if there is a couple, father - son or daughter, buddies etc. Both will get hats if that's how it shakes out.