KOMPRESSOR
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I'm just responding to what I see in the videos. They aren't faked. In the videos it looks like there's a bit too much pleasure involved in the seal bashing to be purely business. If the hunt must happen, wouldn't shooting them in the head be a bit quicker and more painless? I guess that wouldn't be cost efficient though with all of the bullets they'd have to buy. What about skinning them alive? Humane?
Those guys are more running on ice slush than on ice. It doesn't at all seem to me as they are having fun. I'd rather say they look focused to stay dry and alive...
Shooting the seals in the head would likely be ok if they could. But you'd get one seal only because the rest would likely get into the water when the first shot goes off. As you see the boats and the ice are moving. From my hunting experience, shooting at a moving "target" (live animal!) is difficult enough. Then add that you'd be on a moving boat deck yourself, it's impossible unless you are willing to accept a lot of misses. I wouldn't be, so I'd pass on the chance in any of my hunting situations in the woods. Those clubs ARE effective. Even if it looks primitive.