I have not seen to the document regarding his previous violations and I doubt that you have either. This is critical to make Internet facts, facts.
Any hunting may lead to suffering. Bow hunters, in my experience, tend to be better hunters and more certain of their shots and follow up because they have to be if dealing with dangerous game. The fact that he followed up the next day says volumes a non-hunter would never understand. Read Hemingway.
Finally, the practice of trophy hunting escapes me, too. However, these are the people who actually pay the freight for all the other ‘save the animals’ types, This man actually pays to preserve animals which is something 99.9% of all the whiners do not. Add to that the expense, risk and skill needed to take the big five and I would not find “jollies” a fitting word. He takes the challenge of killing his animals upfront which is far more than most do. Most people meekly go to the grocer and pay for the portion of the animal they want to be assassinated for them in distant and horrible (for the animal) abattoirs.
If you are a vegetarian or don't hunt you own meat, you stand on very shaky ground. Watch out for whose oxen you kill . . .
I have found multiple deer on my property that were killed by bow hunters. They were well within my property. Obviously they had to travel, maybe at least a mile, before they dropped.
He’s not eating the lion—you’ve passed into ridiculous territory here.
Anti hunting fluffy bunny lovers annoy the sh!t out of me...they have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about and are utterly incapable of considering that their narrow little supermarket viewpoint might not be reality in the woods and wilds of this earth.
Most are as bad as the Gaystapo and are also utterly unable to see that correlation as well
Oh, and by the way, here are the court docs—and he was 40 miles out the legal area when he shot the bear, before he and his buddies moved it:
“The fact that he followed up the next day says volumes a non-hunter would never understand.”
He could have the upmost respect for hunting, but in any case anyone who spends 50K or so to hunt a lion with a bow is probably prepared to follow up.
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