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A good many hunters also find the practice abhorrent.

So do I. The process is as important as the product.
It's the hunting equivalent to buying a hooker because your too inadequate to snag a female.

So do I. The process is as important as the product. It's the hunting equivalent to buying a hooker because your too inadequate to snag a female.

I agree, insomuch as the term 'hunting' is used. It's a rather "girly-man" way to bag a beast.

I don't find it particularly cruel, however - and anyone who does has bought into the PETA dogma. Anyone who claims this is cruel has to then be upset about animals raised in pens for slaughter. And I'm not giving up bacon.

While I agree in principle, and I don't ever hire a guide, and insist on tying my own flies and loading my own ammo, still I must disagree with your conclusion.

Firstly, it runs counter to the truism that if it flies, floats or fornicates, then it is cheaper to rent it. And we are free market supporters, aren't we?

Secondly, the animals in the "hunts" are not going to be supported for the rest of their lives by sweet lil' grannies willing to foot the bills for their upkeep.

Lions, for example, breed like alley cats. Got kittens? How about lion kittens? Think any neighbor will give them a home?

As for the spear hunting, any hunter using a spear on a lion may so do without intereference from me. Such a hunter is either a vastly better hunter than I or is channelling an ancient Norse berserker.

In the latter case, can I watch when the PETA Person starts the usual badmouthing at the next spear hunt? Please?? Can I bring my camcorder???

I agree, but the author better watch what he prays for because some number of those canned hunt species may be kept off the endangered or extinct list by the breeding incentive provided by the practice...