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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you kill them? Club them over the head with a rock?[/quote]

Shoot them just behind the eye with a high power airgun, or harpoon them with a dart and then beat them to death with a small club. The darts are for places where it’s not safe enough to shoot an airgun. [/quote]

I truly cannot imagine clubbing any other animal to death. Can you shoot it? [/quote]

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There are places where we just can’t use the air rifles due to safety concerns about misses or shoot-through’s. In those places you harpoon them with a small dart and then reel them in with a line attached to the dart.

When you pull them aboard the boat, they’re very much in a fighting mood. A big male scratched my leg up yesterday when I was moving in to put him down. It happens. Sometimes they get lucky. It’s a contact sport.

But shooting is preferable. A headshot will usually kill them instantly. Or at least render them unconscious/incapacitated instantly, as long as the air gun is sufficiently powerful.

An air gun like you’d see for sale at Dick’s or BassPro isn’t powerful enough. You need something more powerful than that.  The ones we use fire a much larger pellet than the ones sold at big box retailers. Which is why we have to be very careful about the places where we shoot. [/quote]

Of course they fight back. You're trying to kill them and they don't know why.

You get a scratch and they get clubbed to death? Hardly seems an even trade for someone CHOOSING to go down and do this activity/job. [/quote]

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