Posted on 04/24/2026 4:54:55 AM PDT by DFG
A millionaire US big-game hunter was ambushed and killed by five elephants whilst hunting small forest antelope in central Africa.
Californian vineyard owner Ernie Dosio, 75 - who owns a vast collection of exotic animal heads in trophy rooms at home - was trampled to death.
He was being guided by a professional hunter in the thick forest of Gabon on a £30,000 stalk for a shot at the elusive yellow-backed duiker.
Over the decades he has hunted elephants, leopard, rhino, buffalo and lion across Africa and back home in the US he has hunted almost every species of wild deer.
But the highly respected hunter's luck ran out last Friday while in the Lope-Okanda rainforest when his hunt stumbled into five female elephants with a calf.
African elephants are the largest living mammals and females can stand 12ft tall at the shoulder, weigh nearly four tons and run at speeds of up to 25mph
The startled elephant herd immediately charged Mr Dosio and his professional hunter.
The elephants were so well hidden in the dense undergrowth they appeared 'as if from nowhere' and the professional with the high-powered rifle was just flung aside.
He was seriously injured and lost his gun in the thick bush as the elephants attacked the terrified hunter with just a shotgun who was then brutally trampled underfoot.
A retired game hunter in Cape Town who knows the victim said: 'Ernie has been hunting since he could hold a rifle and has many trophies from Africa and the US.
'Although many disagree with big-game hunting, all Ernie's hunts were strictly licensed and above board and were registered as conservation in culling animal numbers.
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You should avoid Africa then.
Lots of people keep trophies and souveniers.
And ...
Lots of men “insert tab A into slot B” ... so to speak.
I hope you’re smart enough to distinguish between a husband and a rapist.
IOW: your attempted analogy is specious. It fails. It is deceptive. It is dishonest. It is wrong.
Have a nice day.
I didn’t say anything about legal hunting or poaching.
I just don’t care for hunting for sport.
There are other ways a person can get their jollies that has nothing to do with killing animals for sport.
Food is food. People just can't handle something not prettified and available from McDonald's or their local Italian restaurant, it seems.
Meat is meat.
We are on the food chain too.
Man I could spend all day correcting and informing the superficial ignorant of facts and recruits podium pounders here
It’s group think some of it and always has been
Seeking approval
But if I do that it’s tiresome and I don’t have the time given I’m in a car all day and in the end they don’t care they are immovable despite facts if it interfers with their hunches and I can easily become boorish and cranky in appearance
I generally only take that route when virtue signalers dance in the bones of my ancestry lol
I’m pinging two three reasonable posters to applaud who do keep up
I appreciate it
RIP NOPARDONS
loved her or not nobody can claim she was poorly informed on what she spoke of
Incredible her grasp of so much
What a brain
Mine cost $300 to be processed.
I shot it at 6:30am.
It was in the low thirties temperature that morning. I hung it from my tractor bucket in the shade when the temperature got up to 40F.
By 3pm it was in the cooler at the processing plant a half hour away.
A week later they called me to come pick up the two boxes of meat.
Given the general consensus I’m reading on FR this morning, I’m not sure I’m in the right spot anymore.
“Good riddance”
“Serial Killer”
Trampled-“Good”
“Karma”
“Good”
“Mount his head”
“Darwin Award”
“F-him”
“Glad he’s dead”
“He had it coming”
“Prick”
“Black heart”
“Karma a real bitch”
“Good riddance”
………………
Tell us how you REALLY feel people…../s
I agree. Basic common sense. I support “legal” hunts.
When you go hunting, nature has a say.
Hunting African animals for sport is absolutely amoral, that’s why.
The safari hunter takes the trophy and the animals are fed to the villagers.
Nothing is wasted.
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People eat lions now?
Revenge is best served cold ... or in this case with cold feet.
Compensation for small things I figure. Similar to trucks with big noisy tires.
As for what’s his name, my give a damn is flat busted.
“Trampled by 5 elephants”
That was advice our parents used to give .
Before we would head out on Saturday night, they would say “don’t do anything stupid that would get you trampled by 5 elephants”
We domesticated animals to make hunting unnecessary.
They do, but I can imagine it isn’t the best meat to eat. They may just feed it to their pigs and eat the pigs instead.
The premise needs a bit of correction. In most African countries, hunting lions isn’t something ordinary people do, and it’s heavily restricted or outright illegal in many places. Lions are protected wildlife, and even where hunting is allowed, it’s tightly regulated through licensed trophy hunting programs—not general “safaris” in the tourism sense.
When lions are legally hunted (typically through controlled trophy hunting in certain countries), a few different things can happen to the meat:
* **Consumed locally:** The meat is often eaten by local communities or by the hunting team. Lion meat is edible, though not widely sought after compared to livestock or common game like antelope.
* **Distributed:** In some regulated programs, the meat is shared with nearby villages as part of agreements meant to provide local benefits.
* **Secondary uses:** Parts of the lion—like skin, bones, and claws—are more commonly kept as trophies or, in some cases, enter regulated or illegal trade markets.
It’s also worth noting that the majority of wildlife tourism in Africa—what most people mean by “safari”—involves photographing animals, not hunting them. Hunting safaris are a separate, controversial activity with strict legal frameworks in places where they still exist.
They might also mix it with other meat or plants to make it more edible.
“For some reason, a lot of the responses on this thread remind me of this guy:”
If you mean that the way I think you mean it, the responses make me think I’ve stumbled into Democrat Underground or what ever it is instead of FR. What the heck?
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