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I find it ironic that some of you claim that this guy is not a sportsman, an animal slayer, say he's cruel to animals etc. and in the same mind you consider yourself a sportsman because you can sit in a treestand and kill a deer at 300 yards away in a food plot. Comparitively, I would say that duck and deer hunting is more academic than sport, you only have to figure them out, not pair yourself against them and risk your life! I consider both forms of hunting sportsmanlike, but if you break them down into their relative merits, what this guy does is many times more sporting. I'm sure that same ones of you also think that alligator hunting is unethical and unsportsmanlike, as is hog hunting, afterall both of these animals have the capabilities of hurting you and maybe kill you.
An animal that size isn't just gonna drop when you shoot it like a deer, even with a 600 nitro. When blood is coming out of their nose that means they were lung shot, not intentionally wounded and was licking its wounds! I think it is more sporting to actively pursue the wounded game, give it the choice to fight or flight and then finish it off than to shoot it and let it bleed out and then go find it. We really don't have that many animals in the USA that will actually come after you. We have hog and bears, but not too many folks hunt them and they aren't near as aggressive as a cape buffalo or a hippo. Hunters that will declare any type of legal hunting to be unsportsmanlike, cruel, inhumane and the like are every bit as harmful to hunting and hunters rights as any peta or ar activist could ever hope to be. There is just as much reason to hunt a hippo as there is to hunt a whitetail or a duck, but if'n it ain't your thing turn around and chit on it, right? Sounds like a bunch of chittin to me!
An animal that size isn't just gonna drop when you shoot it like a deer, even with a 600 nitro. When blood is coming out of their nose that means they were lung shot, not intentionally wounded and was licking its wounds! I think it is more sporting to actively pursue the wounded game, give it the choice to fight or flight and then finish it off than to shoot it and let it bleed out and then go find it. We really don't have that many animals in the USA that will actually come after you. We have hog and bears, but not too many folks hunt them and they aren't near as aggressive as a cape buffalo or a hippo. Hunters that will declare any type of legal hunting to be unsportsmanlike, cruel, inhumane and the like are every bit as harmful to hunting and hunters rights as any peta or ar activist could ever hope to be. There is just as much reason to hunt a hippo as there is to hunt a whitetail or a duck, but if'n it ain't your thing turn around and chit on it, right? Sounds like a bunch of chittin to me!
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Let's take this one to another level in the discussion of the ethics of hunting:
Would this guy do this if it was not being video'd for sale? Bear in mind that I have participated in a taped duck hunt for tv, so I ain't throwing stones. My point is what is the ethical value, good or bad, of hunting any animal if the point is not the hunt, but the selling of the hunt for profit?
Would it be more or less ethical if he was doing this for the value of the hunt itself, as opposed to doing the hunt for the sake of taping it for sale?
Just a thought.
Would this guy do this if it was not being video'd for sale? Bear in mind that I have participated in a taped duck hunt for tv, so I ain't throwing stones. My point is what is the ethical value, good or bad, of hunting any animal if the point is not the hunt, but the selling of the hunt for profit?
Would it be more or less ethical if he was doing this for the value of the hunt itself, as opposed to doing the hunt for the sake of taping it for sale?
Just a thought.
In response to Crow's questions....
Peter Capstick, both on tape and in print, stated that without an economic benefit from the game in Africa, development would quickly wipe out the habitat of said animals and there would be no more hunting period...those species are not as adaptable to human intrusion as most species of game animals in North America and need more habitat to sustain wild herds. So in essence, profitting from said animals is the only thing keeping them from extinction.
Now, I am sure someone somewhere will disagree with Peter Captsick...I just happen to agree with him.
Peter Capstick, both on tape and in print, stated that without an economic benefit from the game in Africa, development would quickly wipe out the habitat of said animals and there would be no more hunting period...those species are not as adaptable to human intrusion as most species of game animals in North America and need more habitat to sustain wild herds. So in essence, profitting from said animals is the only thing keeping them from extinction.
Now, I am sure someone somewhere will disagree with Peter Captsick...I just happen to agree with him.
When I think of something clever to say, I'll put it here.
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