Posted on 02/12/2019 9:14:26 PM PST by Simon Green
Edited on 02/13/2019 9:17:52 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The photograph, published last week in Pakistani newspapers, was stunning. It showed a magnificent mountain goat, with huge, symmetrically spiral horns, nestled on a rock and surrounded by breathtaking snowy mountains, with a man kneeling and smiling behind it.
It took a few seconds to realize that the animal, a wild Astore markhor, was dead. The caption described the man as an American hunter who had paid a record $110,000 to shoot it on a tourist expedition to Pakistan
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He may have also done it with the conservation of the species in mind, since he is one of the few who can afford to do that, as well.
Either way, the monetary part was about uniqueness, not about a (non-)hunt.
Do you see that terrain in the back ground? Have you ever hunted terrain like that? I have. Its a nut buster to get within a mile of game in that terrain.
Someone we have all heard of is spending a lot more than that to go to Mars which IMHO is a lot more stupid.
caption the photo ...
“I’m not actually dead, just resting, part two is gonna be VERY interesting.”
That will look nice on the wall.
Another FR trophy hunting thread...sigh.
The killing is NOT about hunting or licenses.
It is about a hunter bragging he killing the last of a species.
Kind’a like fishing ... put food in front of a hungry fish’s mouth and .....
And, its not like he actually hunted it down.
Here it is... now point and shoot.
So, don't do it.
He obviously had a guide.
How do you think he got anywhere near the animal, did you notice the terrain?
"...markhor hunting..."
Gee, thanks dad.
Are you sure you lean right? You do know that right is the starboard side? There are two 'right sides' on a boat depending on orientation, but only one starboard side.
You may be confused which way you are leaning.
Meh, killing a mountain lion bare handed, that’s a feat.
It’s very expensive to kill rare animals in shithole countries.
I’m unimpressed as f*ck.
If its the very last one, where do you suppose more will come from whether the last one is hunted or not?
I hunt for meat. I choose archery, which requires a little skill, but even that is not much of a challenge for someone who shoots a lot daily. I have no trophies at all, not even one deer head hanging on the wall, and I don’t see the point in them. I also cannot imagine paying that much to shoot a big goat, where the meat won’t even be tender. However, it’s his money, and I’m not going to join the far-left morons who will raise a fuss over every hunting picture they see.
Just tell them the goat was Jewish...then they would be okay with it.
From the story it sounds like he didn’t hunt anything at all, just walked up to a docile animal and executed it.
“How do you think he got anywhere near the animal, did you notice the terrain?”
He took a hike. Big F’ing deal....
and that’s after his mode of transportation(helicopter or whatever) couldn’t go any farther.
A Mountain Man(history channel) he is not.
He’s a small dick pretending to be a mighty, mighty hunter.
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