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#21
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.
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
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.
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.
#24
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.
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.
#25
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.
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.
#27
Typical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Buffalo, WY
Posts: 992
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.
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.
#28
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2013
Posts: 9,230
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.