By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson

February 10, 2021 0 Comments

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At the killing contest in Williamsport, Indiana, contestants drag coyotes they massacred. They punch holes into the animals’ legs so they can hang them upside down and weigh them.Photo by the HSUS2.1KSHARES

It is a bloody scene at the Texas weigh-in of the “De Leon Pharmacy and Sporting Goods’ Varmint Hunt #1” on a cold January morning this year. Participants in this wildlife killing contest are unloading the bodies of bobcats, grey foxes, coyotes and raccoons from their trucks, which are expensively outfitted for the killing with raised decks, comfortable chairs and gun mounts. Sixty or so animals have been slaughtered over the contest’s 21-hour period, using assault rifles and other powerful weapons.

Our undercover investigator is on site,documenting the goings-on. The animals have gun shot wounds in their heads and bodies, with…