Welp... Didn't mean to rustle any feathers. I've only played with tannerite once on the coast (no animals were harmed). Please correct me if I'm wrong, and I'm not saying that it's in any way ethical, and I'm not trying to start an argument that blowing up hogs with tannerite is a good idea..It's not my style but y'all's responses did get me thinking...
A lot of people don't want the meat and try to eradicate these "pests" by shooting them at night while they're running away (often times with too small of a caliber to be generally quick and effective at killing them), only for them to suffer for a few days and die of infection (but this can and still does happen with larger calibers if the shot placement isnt good enough and the chances of that are increased on a running target, making it less ethical). Plus, if the hog hunting community put as much effort into killing them quickly and effectively with tannerite, as they do using guns and night vision, would someone have come up with a way to use tannerite that would leave less wounded hogs than guns do on the ones that get wounded and still escape? Plus, guns and hunting with guns is a social norm for us that we've been conditioned by society to believe is ethical. Explosives are not, regardless of how effective they could end up being. Also, last week I saw an episode of duck dynasty where Phil Si and jace used napalm and dynamite to kill beavers and blow up their dams, and that aired on A&E and Phil's justification was that they're pests that will stop at nothing and need to be destroyed, just like many think about hogs.
Anyhow, I'm not in support hunting hogs with tannerite, just trying to be objective and play a little devils advocate at the same time. And not that today's liberal minded, sensitive society would ever allow it, but what if someone really put some R&D into how to instantly kill as many pigs as possible with tannerite, without wounding others.
Ps the other video I saw with the tannerite stunned most of the hogs allowing the shooters more of an opportunity on still targets before they got back up to run off.. However, at the end of the day, I feel pretty similar to 81police on this.