olsaltydog

Think the bigger issue is the way they portray hunting lions. The links i read about this was making it appear that all lion hunting is cowardly. That all lions are just like house cats that they sit around napping all day and that most folks who have gone on safari have cats walk right up to the jeeps. We are losing the PR battle and its gonna hurt. The antis losing an argument means nothing except they just gotta try again. We lose we lose rights or more and we can only afford to lose even a little because all we have left is a little bit.

skinnnner

Brock lesner does commercials for federal ammo and Matt huges does commercials for browning,both hunters.lady gaga also hates peta but i dont think she hunts

flags

That's the problem. In the areas they do the major photography safaris you can just drive up to them. A little known fact is that the photography outfits actively arrange for bait (carcasses) to be placed near the more open areas to hold the cats in place. Cats, being pretty lazy, won't go far if food is readily available. The idiots with the fake leopard skin hatbands riding in the jeeps don't even know they are being played like fools. They actually think this is the natural way lions, the top predator, acts. Think about that for a minute.

Most people don't know it but most the National Parks in Africa have some sort of hunting (mostly culling done by professionals at night) to keep populations stable. So keeping fresh carcasses at certain spots is pretty easy to do. Go out at night, pop 3 or 4 wildebeest with headshots from a rifle with a silencer and simply drop them just out of sight in the brush by the clearings. Lions aren't picky, meat is meat and as long as it is there, they won't go far from it. I personally know a PH that has permits for 20 elephant a year in Kruger National Park. He is allowed to take them, as long as he is away from the more "touristy areas" so nobody gets offended by watching Dumbo getting shot. He splits the profit from the meat, skins and ivory with the park. Half is his fee for doing the culling (he pays his hunting crew out of his share) and half goes to support the park.

As someone who has seen both the photography areas and the hunting areas I can speak with complete certainty that lions act different in the hunting areas. They do not just lay around waiting for a vehicle full of idiots to pull up. They are spooky sneaky. I've gone on stalks for wildebeest and zebra and found lion tracks over our tracks when we returned to the vehicle and we never saw them. But the general public only knows what the TV shows them and that is a distorted view. Ask anyone that has been there.

KonKata

People keep screaming that this lion was tamed and the hunt was extremely unfair because it was "canned".

They don't understand that this "can" was thousands of acres large and the lion was as wild as any other.

America has certainly humanized animals to the point of clothing them and painting their claws. Some animals don't even get animal food - they live off of what their owners eat. I'm still in awe over how far from our origins we've wandered.

bald9eagle

The "Ban" is actually more of an online petition started by some whackos. They want to try and convince the country that Ms. Bachman took the lion in to ban her.

I'll say that I fear that the day will come that the liberal population that continues to grow in Colorado will have the numbers and power to ban all hunting in that state. I've only visited there once but the little town we spent a day in was full of Birkenstock and capri pant wearing "men" and hippie looking women.

SWThomas

The Robertson clan is gaining notoriety. But they don't seem to be very outspoken about the 2A or hunters rights.

Bullcamp82834

Unfortunately Colorado is fast becoming California without an ocean.

flags

Those would be the transplants from the Land of the Looney on the West Coast. Frankly I think they need to build a fence around CA and shoot anyone that tries to leave before they fix the mess they made there!