Some much needed PR, at least for the Feds involved, while their Kamrades in New Mexico slaughter them from the air in New Mexico...

YOu can't tell the difference between 150 feral cattle and 2500 useful cattle?

All cattle are useful, you mouth-breathing dumbass.

It's called "scalability".

That is, unless you shoot them from the air and let them rot where they lay.

That's just incompetence...a hallmark of the current Federal Regime.

nitpick

They're literally shooting and wasting dozens of tons of beef in a blue state full of drunken Gut-Eaters, already wards of the State, most of whom lack access to proper nutrition and you're calling that "nitpicking"?

my party failed at a fascist coup on live tv

You continue to be an unserious person.

I'm still in the cow business, Lawrence, but just as a sideshow. I do it for my kids and my own sanity.

The New Mexico thing pisses me off.

I used to make a pretty good living (relative to my age) catching wild cows in New Mexico and Arizona.

All you need is food and your A-Game, Rock-Rolling horses and the means to keep them shod and maybe a few good dogs. Access to a good, strong trap to keep them in was helpful, too.

There's no reason they couldn't have let a crew bid on the work and come in and do the same thing.

2002 Mao would say "I keep what I catch and sell for market price".

2023 Mao would say, "I can either sell everything I catch for market price.... or you Fed dumbasses can have what I catch and pay me 10% over market price for everything....except for +2 year old bulls.

You either pay me 40% over market value for them or they get left behind and/or choked to death.

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It's funny to me that octogenarian dumbasses, given all the wisdom life has afforded them by virtue of their longevity, can't grasp the fact that "wealth" is not a zero-sum concept.

Maybe "funny" was the wrong word.....

I bet they had no shortage of volunteers to shoot feral livestock from a helicopter

Pretty sure they were helicopter contractors who have gone through a bidding process with whatever Fed agency (USFS? BLM?) hired them.

If you got the capital to buy an R44 and hire a skilled pilot you can start an aerial hunting service pretty quick.

Don't know if the shooters were paying customers to the contractors or just Fed technicians.

True, and that's a badass gig you had there

Youth was the badass gig I had there. Plus the skill-set to develop and hone using all the energy the term "youth" implies. It's a craft to punch cows---a sub-craft to go get the wild ones.

We did some amazing ---- in some amazing and extremely remote country---all in the haze of youthful invincibility, whiskey, and whores.

But now I got another "badass gig" raising my kids to want to do the same kind of thing, if that's what they want.

But the old days were good ones.

It's a more interesting article.

Therefore "the thread" evolved.