(07-02-2018 10:47 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 10:42 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 10:22 AM)gdunn Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 08:31 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(07-02-2018 01:36 AM)Kaplony Wrote:  While I have no desire to go to Africa and do a hunt like this I have to question your opinion on this. She hunted this animal in a legal and ethical manner. No different than someone who employed a guide to kill a moose, mountain goat, or big horn sheep.I have no problem with folks booking a hunt with a reputable guide and going to Africa for a hunt.

I don't have any problem with this. How is this any different than deer hunting except that its a giraffe?

I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the allure of killing a giraffe is either. Again I'm not into hunting animals for trophy. This past year I went on my first bear hunt. My wife asked what the plan was if I killed one. I said skin it, and take the meat to a processor. She freaked out about eating one. But like I told her, I don't go hunting to just kill. The meat is good and considered a delicacy. She asked why I didn't eat snakes. Told her first off I don't go looking to kill snakes and secondly how does she know we haven't.

Rattlesnake is pretty good.

So I've heard. I do my best to leave snakes alone. They have a job.

Yea, around here, I move snakes (even the occasional copperhead) to the adjacent wooded areas. If they are around, its because there is food around. When the food is gone, they move on.

Over in Arkansas, there was a doctor who would take rattlesnake as barter if the person couldnt pay.