I think if he was a “trophy hunter” he would have chosen a bull with bigger/longer tusks.
I won’t go to the unhinged length of threats, but I really don’t see the point in hunting elephant. Is the meat good for consumption?
Abortionists killed 50,000,000 babies in self-defense
They hunt elephants because they need to cull the heard. Protecting elephants means huge amounts of land is consumed that other animals would eat. So while they do protect the elephants they also, cull the heard every few years. They often sell the rights of hunting as part of the cull.
What was he doing in Zimbabwe with a professional hunter that put him in mortal danger and he had to kill the elephants?
Are the liberals going to revive the Cecil the Lion playbook on this elephant matter???
He can kill what he wants. But to hide behind the “self-defense” excuse is Bull Cheese.
Man, pal. You went there to shoot a damn elephant. And you did.
As long as he shouted, “IT’S COMIN’ RIGHT FOR US!!!!”, he’s good.
Usually I don’t back peta looney types but I will in this instance. No need to kill an elephant for sport (it wasn’t in self defense. That’s bull)
The only places in Africa where they have healthy elephant herds are those places where they license their hunting. They reinvest the trophy fee (which can run tens of thousands of dollars) in protecting a cash-producing resource. There’s nowhere else where they can afford to hire enough game wardens to protect them so poaching for ivory (international trade for which is long since banned) is rampant.
So either you let rich Americans give selected old bulls a .458 WinMag through the brain pan or the poachers indiscriminately mow them down with a beta-dump from an AK47, in which case everybody loses except the poacher.
Probably a cull the game commission wanted to get rid of anyway. Why not find someone who will pay BIG BUX to shoot one? Much like the Montana game and fish commission used to have hunters come in and kill cull bison with brucellosis.
I remember not long back when the South African game commission sent in the army to kill off a large number of excess elephants.
And if he could just resist the urge to get “likes” on social media, he wouldn’t have posted this pic and nobody would be the wiser.
Any animal that large is NOT “helpless.”
And, BTW, nice shot on the critter.