Wild Boar Hunting

[splorff]

I have read that some people on Phuket hunt wild boar. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I dont want to use a gun, thats a little unsporting shooting an animal from perhaps a mile away. I am interested in bow hunting. The hunter needs to be within 50 feet ideally. Camoflauge, silence and being upwind are important in bow hunting.

Is anyone on the island bow hunting ? Is there a club? Can equipment be hired ?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmMl6M_gTpA&...feature=related

[kelvinj]

I'm a bit doudtfull about your hunting aptitude, if you ever get the chance, you'll be a lot better off downwind than up. As for hitting a wild boar at a range of one mile, who do you know with a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle?

[Redted]

Don't shoot the wild boars on phuket otherwise tourists will go to Pattaya.

Shot the coyotes instead, there's loads of em on Phuket.

I hear they only come out after dark, so you would need night vision classes, but not in all cases, as you can smell them along way off.

Ted.

[splorff]

I'm a bit doudtfull about your hunting aptitude, if you ever get the chance, you'll be a lot better off downwind than up. As for hitting a wild boar at a range of one mile, who do you know with a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle?

Upwind/downwind you know what I mean.

As for guns, yes its possible to hit a target from a great distance, not what I want to do at all. I want to try bow-hunting, its much more sporting.

[splorff]

[quote name='Redted' date='2008-04-08 11:10:49' post='1915126'

Shot the coyotes instead, there's loads of em on Phuket.

I hear they only come out after dark, so you would need night vision classes, but not in all cases, as you can smell them along way off.

Ted.

Coyotes aren't they in the USA ?

Yes boar like the twilight hours for getting about in.

[slackula]

I'd guess that the only boar in Phuket is in the form of some sort of pate or terrine or casserole. Perhaps in Krabi/Phangna or some place in Pigfart, Iowa. Why don't you try there?

[geriatrickid]

The guy's talking about Bore's ... Anyway you can find them at most beer bar from 9am onwards.

Naka.

whew, thought he meant Boers. They have a habit of ripping englishmen entrails out when they get disturbed.

[Naam]

I have read that some people on Phuket hunt wild boar. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I dont want to use a gun, thats a little unsporting shooting an animal from perhaps a mile away. I am interested in bow hunting. The hunter needs to be within 50 feet ideally. Camoflauge, silence and being upwind are important in bow hunting.

Is anyone on the island bow hunting ? Is there a club? Can equipment be hired ?

only perverts who enjoy an animal's suffering hunt wild boar with bow and arrow instead of a gun!

[Nignoy]

I have read that some people on Phuket hunt wild boar. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time. I dont want to use a gun, thats a little unsporting shooting an animal from perhaps a mile away. I am interested in bow hunting. The hunter needs to be within 50 feet ideally. Camoflauge, silence and being upwind are important in bow hunting.

Is anyone on the island bow hunting ? Is there a club? Can equipment be hired ?

only perverts who enjoy an animal's suffering hunt wild boar with bow and arrow instead of a gun!

You Have to excuse Splorf he comes from or lives in Southport the only place in the world where seagulls fly backwards to keep the shit out of their eyes I spent the summer holidays there one sunday A visit to the nearby cultural Town of Skelmersdale is recommended Nignoy

[Jingjok]

I agree with Naam; hunting boars (or even bores/boers/whores/coyotes) with a bloody bow and arrow is one of the most unsporting things I have ever heard.

[Galong]

I wonder why so many people with no real comment to make, just litter my thread with their drivel

Why don't you try to get a close-up shot with a camera? That's much more challenging and impressive. Anyone with a finger and an eye can kill a defenseless animal. That's not a sport and it certainly doesn't make you a man.

[LivinginKata]

I wonder why so many people with no real comment to make, just litter my thread with their drivel

Why don't you try to get a close-up shot with a camera? That's much more challenging and impressive. Anyone with a finger and an eye can kill a defenseless animal. That's not a sport and it certainly doesn't make you a man.

Completely agree with Galong. I've been trying to think of a suitable reply for some time now. Galong sums up my thoughts perfectly.

[LivinLOS]

I dont know really (well I think the wild boar hunting idea is plain silly) but on the subject of killing animals.. Do you eat meat ?? Because if your not a vegetarian then surely thats a little hypocritical no ??

I eat meat.. I have a veggie mother and to be allowed to eat meat in my household I was forced to dispatch and dress an animal for the table, I think its kind of important to actually have a solid understanding that what we consume was a living thing and the moral implications that has. I personally see nothing wrong in killing an animal as long as its not done for sport (in which case I am 100% strongly opposed). The act should be done as humanely as possible but that doesnt preclude spearfishing or hunting. I used to know a freind of the family who would go poaching deer, only at the right time of year and only young bucks so as not to damage the breeding stock, but still out with a crossbow (his weapon of choice for low noise poaching) and again I see nothing wrong with that really.

[Kan Win]

I wonder why so many people with no real comment to make, just litter my thread with their drivel

Why don't you try to get a close-up shot with a camera? That's much more challenging and impressive. Anyone with a finger and an eye can kill a defenseless animal. That's not a sport and it certainly doesn't make you a man.

Agree with "Galong" on this one.

Equipment required :-

Camera : Cannon SLR1

Fires one Shot at a time, hence S1

Lens : Bore No.1

Two available over looking the Andaman Sea on Phuket Island.

Kan Win

[Naam]

i liked to hunt when i was young. at that time hunting meant to me (and others) to kill animals but with all due respect (whatever your interpretation of "respect" might be). but it never occurred to me to make an animal suffer because of some "sportive" kind of hunting. since many years i changed my hunting rifles for a camera and i feel much better.

p.s. on Planet Klingon we like to hunt stupid perverts (present company of course excluded). make them suffer a wee bit by cutting of their balls and shove an arrow up theirs

[splorff]

only perverts who enjoy an animal's suffering hunt wild boar with bow and arrow instead of a gun!

And are gun-hunters perverts too ?

Actually bow hunters use an arrow tip called a "broadhead". A well placed shot disables the creature very quickly, and the animal bleeds to death very quickly. Often times the creature dies more quickly with an arrow wound than with a gunshot.

There is nothing perverted in hunting. The hunters does not as you imply- enjoy the animals suffering. It is the hunt we enjoy, and fresh free meat also.

If you eat meat consider this. You are hunting by proxy. You are simply getting someone else to do your hunting. Are you one of your so called perverts also ?

Not only are farmed animals also killed for you, but often, they have led miserable lives too. Locked up in crates and cages, because of the demand that you are responsible for.

If I were a boar, and if I were given the choice, I would not chose to be farmed, caged, crated, forced to ingest antibiotics and growth hormones, and finally herded into a lorry to be transported to a slaughter house, then wait several hours knowing what was coming, just so you could eat me.

I have seen what happens in slaughter houses and it is just as described. The animals waiting outside were bellowing in a way I have never seen animals do before. It is certainly my belief that they knew what was coming. Probably they could smell the blood. Almost certainly, they could hear the terrified animals further up the queue.

It was a very distressing thing to witness.

Were I a pig, I would rather be born free, live free, and take my chances.

Getting close enough to arrow-shoot a pig is not an easy thing to do. But when it happens, I would of had no warning of the presence of the hunter. And death at the hands of an experienced hunter would be swift.

I think the path you have chosen as a meat eater ( assuming you are) is cruel and cowardly. Infinitely more cruel, and cowardly because you get others to do what you would not do yourself.

Yet you consider me to be cruel,sadistic and perverted. Ridiculous.

Your comments are juvenile and ill thought out

[splorff]

I wonder why so many people with no real comment to make, just litter my thread with their drivel

Why don't you try to get a close-up shot with a camera? That's much more challenging and impressive. Anyone with a finger and an eye can kill a defenseless animal. That's not a sport and it certainly doesn't make you a man.

Because I have no interest in photography.

Boar defenseless ? Have you ever seen a grown one ? They have four dagger-teeth growing out of their mouths, and could easilly kill.

Certainly its a sport.

Of course hunting does not make you a man. A score of years makes one a man

[splorff]

Because they are clever, and funny.

No, they are not funny, gibberish about bores, boers and whores is not at all funny.

People should only post to a thread where they have a contribution to make.

Perhaps the mods can start a "funny thread" where these types can ammuse themselves without bothering those who do actually have something to discuss.

[Galong]

Boar defenseless ? Have you ever seen a grown one ? They have four dagger-teeth growing out of their mouths, and could easilly kill.

Certainly its a sport.

Of course hunting does not make you a man. A score of years makes one a man

Yes, the boar is defenseless against a gun. Come on, you're NOT suggesting that your life is in any sort of danger. If you really want a challenge and a fair fight, go after a boar with just a knife. Shooting a 'defenseless' boar from a safe distance is neither sporty nor challenging.

Furthermore, doesn't a sport require that both parties are playing? The boar doesn't know that he's in the game. Play paint ball against another human. That's more challenging.

Also, foreigners have a bad enough reputation here as so many come for sex and excessive drinking. Do we really need to show the locals that we don't respect/revere wild animals in addition to this?

"A score of years makes one a man" Um, I would say that there's no fool like an old fool. Living a long time doesn't make you a man. It merely makes you an old man.

[Naam]

"A score of years makes one a man" Um, I would say that there's no fool like an old fool. Living a long time doesn't make you a man. It merely makes you an old man. :D

why do you pick on me?

[slapout]

This creature that you want to plink with your arrow so it may bleed to death quickly is kind if hard to track on the surfaces they seem to travel on. You may want to dig some pits, hide, up, in, or behind, a nearby tree. When you hear it fall into your carefully prepared pit you pounce, shoot with broadhead arrow (causing rapid blood lose) if not patient in observing death, carry a 50 barrett to put the thing out of misry. Remember to clean, preserve and eat what you bag (old indian saying). Have a good hunting season.

[hagler]

I'm a bit doudtfull about your hunting aptitude, if you ever get the chance, you'll be a lot better off downwind than up. As for hitting a wild boar at a range of one mile, who do you know with a Barrett .50 cal sniper rifle?

Upwind/downwind you know what I mean.

As for guns, yes its possible to hit a target from a great distance, not what I want to do at all. I want to try bow-hunting, its much more sporting.

How about you with a bow and arrows and another wanna-be rambo with one as well and the two of you are in the bush together all greased up with camo paint. First to shoot and kill the other one wins. Now THAT is what I call sport. Goddam I'd even pay money to watch that !

Grow up and leave the wildlife alone kid.

[donna]

ok gents. enough of the name calling please.

[sbk]

Abusive and inflammatory posts have been deleted, despite a public warning from Donna. Keep it up and this thread will be closed.

[ozzydom]

In Oz we kill wild pig because in many parts of the country they are officially classed as vermin and cost farmers big bucks in crop and stock losses every year.

If you ever saw what a tusker (boar or sow) can do to a lambing ewe ,you would have second and third thoughts of tackling one unless extremely experienced or armed with the proper firepower to do the job.

As for eating wild pig ,they are so wormy and disease ridden you would probably throw up before you got a hind quarter off.

[Naam]

In Oz we kill wild pig because in many parts of the country they are officially classed as vermin and cost farmers big bucks in crop and stock losses every year.

If you ever saw what a tusker (boar or sow) can do to a lambing ewe ,you would have second and third thoughts of tackling one unless extremely experienced or armed with the proper firepower to do the job.

As for eating wild pig ,they are so wormy and disease ridden you would probably throw up before you got a hind quarter off.

i have no idea how disease ridden the boars are in Oz but i love wild boar (in any form). my brother is a hunter and whenever i visit him in Germany his brotherly love forces him to put 8-10kg of boar ham and/or boar salami into my suitcase. of course that's beside the other 10 or so kilos of smoked red deer and smoked wild duck. he pities me because i can only afford to live in the jungle and because i feed on wild rice and some roots my wife collects in the forest

[ozzydom]

In Oz we kill wild pig because in many parts of the country they are officially classed as vermin and cost farmers big bucks in crop and stock losses every year.

If you ever saw what a tusker (boar or sow) can do to a lambing ewe ,you would have second and third thoughts of tackling one unless extremely experienced or armed with the proper firepower to do the job.

As for eating wild pig ,they are so wormy and disease ridden you would probably throw up before you got a hind quarter off.

i have no idea how disease ridden the boars are in Oz but i love wild boar (in any form). my brother is a hunter and whenever i visit him in Germany his brotherly love forces him to put 8-10kg of boar ham and/or boar salami into my suitcase. of course that's beside the other 10 or so kilos of smoked red deer and smoked wild duck. he pities me because i can only afford to live in the jungle and because i feed on wild rice and some roots my wife collects in the forest

Yep,your complexion is showing definate signs of a low protein diet Naam.

[Bisto]

I had a bow and arrow once but it never stuck to the cat.

It did stick to the kitchen window.

Obviously, granting animals rights doesn’t mean we’ll see cats in the voting booths on Election Day or chickens behind the wheel of a car. What it does mean is that in similar situations, we ought to consider the interests of humans and other animals equally. That is, we should not grant less weight to an individual’s desire to avoid pain simply because she or he isn’t human. All animals bred for food, fur, animal research, and entertainment are capable of experiencing pain. They seek to live free of suffering. They care about their lives and those of their loved ones. As such, nonhuman animals, like humans, should be treated compassionately and live without fear of torture or death.

[LivinLOS]

should be treated compassionately and live without fear of torture or death.

So how does what is essentially (in his context) a food source happen without the 'death' part then ??

See this is where I have a problem.. We as westerners tend to the squeemish about meat as food, I have a buddy who shocked me in that he couldnt gut a fish !!! I saw on farms as a kid how piglets have thier balls and tails snipped, but thats OK is it ??

As I said before I guess my position is anyone that eats meat, cant really criticise someone else for hunting and eating meat, that is of course providing the animal is dispatched as quickly and cleanly as possible. The meat industry is not some happy happy pain and suffering free existence for those animals that are a food source to us meat eaters.

[Naam]

As I said before I guess my position is anyone that eats meat, cant really criticise someone else for hunting and eating meat, that is of course providing the animal is dispatched as quickly and cleanly as possible...

....and with the least suffering which is not guaranteed by killing an animal (which possesses a rather thick hide) the "sportive" way with an arrow!