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Old 04-05-2005, 09:25 PM
Andrew McLaren Andrew McLaren is offline
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I cannot speak with any real authority for all 9 Provinces, but at least in some it would be perfectly legal to hunt a bushpig at night by artificial light.

What would concern me is a "guarantee" of 100% success. Does that mean that the one single client that was taken out got his one tiny little piggy? Or does it mean that all of the large number of clients over quite a few years all got Roland Ward qualifier males? Bushpigs are notoriously difficult to hunt ethically, ask me, I know because I've often tried and seldom succeeded.

I've been in this hunting outfitting game long enough to know that where anyone guarantees anything, the client should beware and tread very carefully! It is here where the ethics become an issue, a real can of worms.

Just incidentally I think it fair to say that there is just no way to economically fence in bushpigs. They will bust through all but the very best of fences, and to make a fence "bushpig-proof" would require the expenditure of so much money that it would become totally uneconomical venture - unless you offer guaranteed hunts in the cage???confused:

In good hunting.

Andrew McLaren:
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