In regards to wild boar and blue bulls in India…
There are government appointed culling teams (called “Shooters”) there who do the culling, but if you really want to shoot wild boars and/or blue bulls in India (Legally)… then, I’ll be more than happy to speak to my contacts there and arrange for you to be a part of the culling team.
One thing about India that I cannot support at all, is that every year thousands of blue bulls and wild boars are shot as part of the culling programs. But rather than permit the meat to be utilized in any sustainable manner, all of the carcasses are buried. Let that sink in for a moment. In a country where thousands of impoverished locals are starving, the government would rather have thousands of pounds of prime blue bull venison and wild pork rot under the ground… rather than let any of the local communities consume the meat. All because they are so fanatically opposed to hunting/meat eating/firearms ownership and can’t bring themselves to admit that hunting is actually a key component of sustainable wildlife management.
This isn’t even a religious issue or a cultural issue. This is just plain wrong and frankly speaking, quite criminal. It is true that some followers of the Hindu faith erroneously consider blue bulls to be bovines (a sacred animal to them) because their local name is “Nilgai” (“Nil” meaning “Blue” & ”Gai” meaning “Cow”)… Even though blue bulls are obviously antelopes and not bovines. But many Hindu people don’t and would happily dine on blue bull venison (to say nothing of the populations of people living in India who aren’t even Hindu at all and therefore have absolutely no religious issues with eating the meat of blue bulls to begin with). And to waste so much fresh & nutritional blue bull venison (and wild pork in the case of non-Muslims) when so many people in the nation cannot eat one square meal… is absolutely disgusting and sinful.
No matter what religion you follow.
There photographs were provided to me by Nawab Shifath Ali Khan (one of the head blue bull & wild boar culling officers in India). They are just of one blue bull cull and one wild boar cull.
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It brings tears to my eyes the fresh meat of so many majestic wild game all goes to complete waste by rotting under the ground, rather than being distributed to the local communities (esp. in areas like Kuch Bihar where crops have been completely razed by the rancid depredations of blue bulls & wild boars and the local people are literally starving to death).
