Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem?

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• remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Give the kids guns too.

  That was intended to sound sarcastic, but most kids I knew in rural America have been around guns since they were big enough to carry them. I personally started shooting a .22 when I was in kindergarten and was just hardly big enough to shoot a 30-06 when I was about 10 or so. (I am very much the liberal gun owner type, btw.)

  While I can’t change the past, I do find myself questioning the logic of my experience at times. For yet another direction shift, my girls are both trained in gun safety, but that started years before I let them even touch a gun.

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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I’ve been shooting since I was about 5 too.

    I haven’t in many years, but I think I was 10 or 11 when my dad got me a 20 gauge.

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  • scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    A 14yo was the first to fire at Marshalls at Ruby Ridge.

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  • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah. I grew up around guns. I was shooting 22s early like you, had a compact shotgun by the age of 10, etc.

    We didn’t live in the country, so while we had guns in the house, we did NOT have ammunition in the house until I was 15 or so, just in case me or my sister ever decided to play with a gun. We bought ammo on the way to the range or the hunt, and anything we didn’t shoot was given to a family member.

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• Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Shit, reply all lives on.

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  • Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I miss that show. PJ is good on Search Engine, but I miss Alex. Both of them.

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    • QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Alex has a new show as well! Hyperfixed

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      • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Omg thank you! I like PJ but I still can’t forgive him completely

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    • Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Woke killed the show. It’s the only casualty of woke that I really can’t process.

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      • Caffeinated_Sloth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Wasn’t it a sexual harassment thing?

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You actually have to lure the hogs into a pen with multiple exits, drop the gates, and gun them down before they can manage an escape. You also should be very vigilant and listen well for any nearby hogs, the adult females tend to be smarter and more cautious but they’re the targets you NEED to kill.

  Failure to catch all of the hogs will allow the others to learn and adapt to the traps, and failure to kill the females will result in their population continuing to grow.

  Other effective methods are clap traps and spike pits but those don’t work well when you have children or other animals. There is also the M44 cyanide pill shooting trap made for Coyotes but idk if it works on Hogs.

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Put the kids in a fenced garden

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