Oh let them eat hog.

Asian carp (what the “public option” is intended to be as “competition” with private health insurers [grin])

I heard about this, too. Funny how we also have now:

* Asian lady beetle (infesting structures)

* Asian longhorn beetle (wrecking the Eastern deciduous forests)

* Emerald ash borer

And, of course, the chestnut blight.

The chestnut blight may be an accident. Others, also, maybe. But sometimes I wonder…

This is what so many “global warming” proponents engage in, routinely which ranges all the way to the most outrageous hype and sensationalist language (”crisis,” “disaster,” “apocalypse,” et cetera).

Issue corrected.

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“what are commonly known as the .243 and the 6mm (in this country) are two distinct cartridges”

[sigh] I know that, and (obviously) wouldn't attempt interchanging them. Other people sometimes just like to use “6 mm” in a generic sense to refer to the range of cartridges (family of similar bore sizes).

Holland and Holland offered an overkill magnum cartridge, the .244 H&H Magnum, in the same range. Nobody would assume this would be interchangeable with the .243 or the “.244 Rem” => “6 mm Rem.”

Green is the color of shame currently, with the PC-religion “psyience” of global warming and its puritanical fundamendalist orthodoxy

Other than the above quoted bit of absurdist propaganda, you should be aware that the .243 and the 6mm cartridges are not interchangable. Neither would be my first choice for wild hogs, but are certainly respectable flat shooting cartridges… if a bit light.

NOTE: I believe some critics, even, are older and wiser (or keep their emotionalism in check, at least). While there was some sensationalism (CNN) about the recent Three Mile Island news (complete with rehashing of all the BS and hype about the event decades ago), this didn't make much news overall on the air, which is (relatively) commendable (a relief, in fact).

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Original thread top, feral hogs: If not trapping (for study), then it's obvious: .243 Win (6 mm cartridge).

I was reading about another unwanted (non-native) species yesterday, the jumbo-sized (4 ft.) jumping carp that infiltrated the Mississippi River awhile back and have been moving north. If they get into Lake Michigan they could do tremendous damage to that ecosystem.

Punishment of the benevolent who dare to defy the established power is not a modern phenomenon. It is a lesson of history we seem never able to learn. History is littered with the good who have known the whip, the gun, the rack, the prisons and the executioners.

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