Posted on 11/17/2017 5:53:25 PM PST by SMGFan
Who is the trophy?
Lion Attack Hunting Safari Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24cpXqYOOW8
Lion Attacks Safari Hunter - about 2 mins in
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTCfUipkzo4
Lion, Rhino and Elephant Attack Cars and Tourist
See about 2:40 in what an elephant can do to a car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRuvyDLtRjQ
I’m not sure you can have healthy animal populations without hunters as part of their management. Could you imagine our animal problems without a 2nd amendment?
#11 Tell him to lower taxes for everyone biggly and also jail the Clintons : )
I say if the money is going to the elephants and it is used to boost their numbers, it is ok, if it is only going to bribe corrupt african rulers and governments it is bad.
The lands and animals need to be managed privately, for profit. That is the best for the animals in the long run.
I’m not sure you can have healthy animal populations without hunters as part of their management. Could you imagine our animal problems without a 2nd amendment?
Many of those problems show up where hunting is not allowed.
I am amazed that so many people want to legislate with feelings ingested from fake TV animal programs. Pure anthropomorphism. We all do it to some extent.
Using reason and logic is very hard, and all reason and logic is based on a set of beliefs, in the end.
That’s absolute bullsquat
Not being a hunter I never understood the Big Game Hunting in Africa.
Big Game hunting, I think, probably was in it’s heyday from the late 1880’s to maybe before the start of W.W. II. In that small span of time trophy hunting just about decimated a great deal of the animals in Africa. While I might understand the man against jungle aspect of hunting then, that isn’t the case now.
Too many animals are near extinction like Elephants. Then you have the preserves where they breed Lions, Tigers, etc., for sport shooting. For the sole cause of some hunter to get a trophy for their wall.
Now if you were to put these hunters out on a preserve with just a cross bow and a knife, just to even the odds a little then go for it. Today a great number of those hunts are staged or worse.
If any of you can explain the attraction in today’s world then please enlighten me.
Ditto
In that small span of time trophy hunting just about decimated a great deal of the animals in Africa.
The big contributors were loss of habitat, including protecting farms; legal commercial hunting, and poaching.
Watch out for those water buffaloes.
In the 70’s, African nations PAID hunters to kill elephants, because they were becoming overpopulated and were ruining the landscape and watering holes that other species need to survive.
Peter Capstick was one of them. Google up “Death in the Long Grass”
(full disclosure-my recently deceased uncle built custom big game rifles up to and including the .700 Nitro Express)
Yes of course... A Cape Buff. ;^)
“When you make something a commodity there is an inherent interest in preserving it. The parties making $$ off these hunts will have a vested interest in preserving the species.”
That’s the only way elephants will be preserved in Africa. Without hunting money, their will be no parks, conservation or protection. So instead of a few elephants taken through hunting, you’ll have elephants killed by the 1000’s through pouching, angry villagers, and lions.
But knee-jerking always feels better /s
Cape buffalo are the most dangerous animal over there.
They don’t just run you over, they keep coming back and trampling you until you are hamburger.
My uncle shot one with a .585, disintegrated its heart, yet it still ran full speed for over 100 yard. Full speed is around 35mph. 1500-2000 pounds of it.
Oh BTW, in that picture is Don Jr.
I hope he keeps the ban.
Oh BTW, in that picture is Don Jr.
I hope he keeps the ban.
The ban is very bad for the elephants.
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