Not true. My family owns a farm in East Texas and watermelons are our number one crop. If we don't shoot the feral pigs that live on the property they will decimate our melon fields. They do tens of thousands of dollars on damage. The best tool for that job is a AR15 with a night scope. Sometimes the roaming herds of wild pigs will number more than a hundred. It is important to shoot as many as you can as quickly as you can before they scatter and return another night to destroy the fields. Pigs are pretty smart if you shoot a bunch of them they won't come back very soon.
To me AR 15s are tools, not unlike tractors or plows.
My father owned a quarter section of land in middle Tennessee.
He had cornfields and after the hogs (tame) were allowed to eat the ears left after harvest, there would be a lot of corn kernels left on the ground.
We would have dove-shoots and we called the cornfields…”hogged off cornfields.”
I had a .410 at 12 and a 12 gauge at fourteen…heavily supervised by my older brothers and my father.
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