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To: Trailer Trash
The world's oldest and now most controversial sport -- big-game hunting -- could be transformed into a provocative quest acceptable to most anyone if a new sport were created: catch-and-release hunting.

Imagine the thrill of tracking, spotting, stalking and hunting the world's greatest game animals at close range in Africa -- lion, Cape buffalo, leopard, elephant and rhinoceros -- without killing any of them.

Imagine being able to stalk and hunt a buffalo on the Great Plains and have the story end when the animal walks away unharmed. A grizzly bear in Alaska. A musk ox in the Arctic. A bighorn sheep in the Canadian Rockies.

Catch-and-release hunting is now possible by converting a high-powered rifle to a tranquilizer dart gun.

As far as I know, nobody has ever hunted the Big 5 of Africa with a dart gun. But I would consider joining an American hunter in this quest to tell the story of inventing a new sport that could change the world of the great outdoors and how the mainstream public regards big-game hunting.

This is incredibly stupid and likely to start getting hunters killed. We go to hunt to EAT it ... and take the trophy.

17 posted on 03/14/2004 9:02:47 AM PST by Centurion2000 (Resolve to perform what you must; perform without fail that what you resolve.)
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To: Centurion2000
"We go to hunt to EAT it ... and take the trophy"


You eat rhinos, elephants, and lions?!

38 posted on 03/14/2004 9:34:35 AM PST by Blzbba
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