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I agree...killing just for killing...then not eating your kill angers me to no end. There are times that elephants in Africa (the males) go berzerk and you have to take them down, this is usually when they are in heat. Why people want to act like a bunch of spoiled brat elitist eurotrash is beyond me.

It's all moot. Another dacade or so and there will be no habitat left for elephants. You and I may not like trophy hunting, but it does no harm compared to over (human) population and habitat loss. If you want to save a little nature, you're gonna have to cull the humans.

Who cares why somebody would go throught the bother and huge financial costs of obtaining permits, guides and paying for a Safari to take an elephant. The good thing is that they do.

If it were not for the fees associated with sport hunting, the money to pay conservation officers and maintain preserves would not be there. If there is no teeth in laws to protect the game, bush meat demand will take its eventual toll.

OTOH, you could ban it altogether. That always works for every problem it is applied to in every other sphere.

BTW, most game in Africa, legal or not, is killed with European military calibers. Most of the bush meat hunting in the last century was with widely available .303's from the Brits. Much more of the ivory killing in the last quarter of the century was done by insurgents and rebel groups. Everything from RPG's to automatic fire from AK's were used to slaughter the beasts and strip the ivory for financing insurgency.

As in interesting aside, the widespread use of the .303 may be due to the exploits of Karamojo Bell and his famed rear-quartering shot with a .30 caliber rifle. A lot of dead colonials tried to duplicate his feats.

at least in the old days, NOTHING went to waste on elephant,zebra,bleesbuck,kudu,giraffe,cape buffalo or other "trophy game", taken on safari.SOME natives even ate the remains of lion & leopard.

ALL the meat & offal went to either the hunter's meals or to the local natives (who generally were DESPERATE for protein in their diets!).

see Robert Ruark's books for more information on the TRUTH and not from the peta/foa "bambi-huggers".

TRUTH is TRUTH!

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