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Patrick
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AUG 10, 12:01 AM
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olejoedad
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AUG 10, 08:41 AM
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Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.
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steve308
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AUG 10, 04:49 PM
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I hope the buffalo gets to display the 'trophy head'.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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AUG 11, 10:14 AM
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I understand hunting and fishing, but I've never understood trophy hunting. It takes no great skill to use a gun to kill a large animal. It seems like people trophy hunt because they believe there's this sense of power... that they were able to "conquer" some big great animal, like a huge lion or something. But that's just it. To trophy hunt, you're hiding out somewhere and picking off (sniping) a large animal when they least expect it. That's not exactly tough... and Rick Moranis and Arnold Schwartznegger would both be equally good or bad at it. I don't know how or why it ever became a thing where people view it as some great challenge.
Real trophy hunting should be done with a spear, and no support from anyone. You want to go kill that lion? Here's a spear... go do it.
Also, I had to look up Buffalo in South Africa... they look more like a yak with large horns. More like a crazed bull. I assumed maybe they looked more like American buffalo.
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1987RedFiero
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AUG 13, 12:14 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I understand hunting and fishing, but I've never understood trophy hunting. It takes no great skill to use a gun to kill a large animal. It seems like people trophy hunt because they believe there's this sense of power... that they were able to "conquer" some big great animal, like a huge lion or something. But that's just it. To trophy hunt, you're hiding out somewhere and picking off (sniping) a large animal when they least expect it. That's not exactly tough... and Rick Moranis and Arnold Schwartznegger would both be equally good or bad at it. I don't know how or why it ever became a thing where people view it as some great challenge.
Real trophy hunting should be done with a spear, and no support from anyone. You want to go kill that lion? Here's a spear... go do it.
Also, I had to look up Buffalo in South Africa... they look more like a yak with large horns. More like a crazed bull. I assumed maybe they looked more like American buffalo. |
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Many times, they allow this/permit this to cull the hurd while getting people to pay to do it. This is the part no one brings up. Just that it is pointless killing.
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Patrick
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AUG 13, 02:07 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 1987RedFiero:
Many times, they allow this/permit this to cull the hurd while getting people to pay to do it. This is the part no one brings up. Just that it is pointless killing.
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Look at the glee on this guy's face. He's so effin pleased with himself that he's killed a living creature... for "sport".
He got what he deserved in South Africa. My compliments to the buffalo.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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AUG 13, 07:24 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by Patrick:
Look at the glee on this guy's face. He's so effin pleased with himself that he's killed a living creature... for "sport".
He got what he deserved in South Africa. My compliments to the buffalo. |
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And for what point? He's not going to eat the animal... you won't make a rug with it. He'll cut the head off, hang it above his fire place, and throw the rest away. I completely understand hunting deer... they're everywhere, they breed like rabbits, and those who hunt deer completely clean and make use of the animal... nothing is wasted. And, if they do waste it, the carcass is usually left out in the wild and wolves and bear will eat it.
But this... I think that's a Puma or mountain lion. What is the point of that? This doesn't make that guy more of a man.
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blackrams
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AUG 13, 09:10 AM
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I have a friend that has numerous "trophies" mounted on his walls in several rooms. He's an avid hunter. While I don't support trophy hunting in general, my friend always donates his kill(s) to those who want the meat and homeless shelters that will take it. What he doesn't give away goes into his own freezer for him and his family.
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82-T/A [At Work]
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AUG 13, 09:42 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by blackrams:
I have a friend that has numerous "trophies" mounted on his walls in several rooms. He's an avid hunter. While I don't support trophy hunting in general, my friend always donates his kill(s) to those who want the meat and homeless shelters that will take it. What he doesn't give away goes into his own freezer for him and his family.
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Just curious... are those deer / elk? Or even bears? I think people have less of an issue with that (I certainly don't). But when it's animals that people don't eat (like Pumas), then it's wasteful (in my opinion). Religiously (if I may), I realize that God in the Old Testament / Torah was splitting in half a sheep on every other page. But then in the New Testament, being super nice to lambs, haha. I realize there's an ecosystem here... but God put life into each of these animals, and it just seems callous and cruel to take pleasure in killing something. Hunting is not really my thing, but I can absolutely appreciate hunting deer... like you say, basically everything can get used, and they breed like rabbits. We have laws that protect against killing young deer and focusing on the ones that have already been on the Earth for a long time.
Sorry... just rambling, but I always get really frustrated when I see beautiful huge animals being killed for sport. I realize of course, that mountain lion would kill me if given half a chance, and I'd have no problems blowing it's brains out with a shotgun if it came at me... but I just have a problem with intentionally seeking to do that.
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blackrams
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AUG 13, 01:54 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
Just curious... are those deer / elk? Or even bears? I think people have less of an issue with that (I certainly don't). But when it's animals that people don't eat (like Pumas), then it's wasteful (in my opinion). Religiously (if I may), I realize that God in the Old Testament / Torah was splitting in half a sheep on every other page. But then in the New Testament, being super nice to lambs, haha. I realize there's an ecosystem here... but God put life into each of these animals, and it just seems callous and cruel to take pleasure in killing something. Hunting is not really my thing, but I can absolutely appreciate hunting deer... like you say, basically everything can get used, and they breed like rabbits. We have laws that protect against killing young deer and focusing on the ones that have already been on the Earth for a long time.
Sorry... just rambling, but I always get really frustrated when I see beautiful huge animals being killed for sport. I realize of course, that mountain lion would kill me if given half a chance, and I'd have no problems blowing it's brains out with a shotgun if it came at me... but I just have a problem with intentionally seeking to do that. |
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As I remember, all that I noticed were meat producing species like Elk, Deer and things like that, nothing I remember was a trophy as in Lion, Tiger, Puma, Elephant or Rhino. There was one I'm not sure about, a very large jack rabbit with antlers. Said he got it in Texas, called it a Jack-A-Lope or something like that.
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