The one I ran into had a glock. I had my 30-30 
Yes I do, the sheep worry about animals,when over 100,000 babies were torn out of their mothers womb.
Yeah I’d like to hear that explanation myself.
The restocking program for whitetailed deer in SC was kept alive in the sixties by the increase in hunting licenses in SC due to the population of deer increasing to huntable levels and a season being set.
Now we have more deer than we can shake a stick at.
What do they carry? Son-in-law just retired from NJ as a game warden with 25 years service. He had three issued weapons: Glock 17, Rem 870 and AR15.
The friggin news is going crazy over the shooting of a lion, but won’t cover Plan Parenthood selling baby parts.
I have no issue culling older game from the heard. What really bugs the heck out of me is those who kill for sport and then are poor sportsmen (i.e. hunting over bait, taking the trophy and leaving the meat, those who wound and wont track the animal until it is down etc.) that’s simply not hunting, that’s killing.
I used to be an avid hunter fisherman and fur trapper in my younger days. Most of the fur trapping I did was sponsored by local ranchers wanting to thin the number of coyote that were taking calves. I’ve outgrown all of that now, I had a hard time even justifying my deer hunting so I just don’t do it much at all anymore. I hold nothing against anyone who hunts ethically and often still purchase a licence, but it usually goes unused.
I would hope that these hunts in Africa are monitored a little bit closer than it appears they are being. I understand a lot of that money goes to help the people who would otherwise be hungry.
I also am rather disturbed by people who use abortion as a method of birth control, but again, that’s not me.
Mankind has great potential, it’s a damn shame that for the most part it is wasted.
That is the same as everywhere I have seen.
Conservation efforts funded by hunters have kept many species alive and well in Africa. Dudes that are willing to pay five figures to shoot something, supplied by professional guides that hire many locals to do their work, are why there is any wildlife left in many parts of Africa. They have a vested financial interest is keeping the populations healthy.
You do realize that other male lions do not take care of cubs belonging to another pride, right? They KILL them in order to bring the lionesses back into heat so they can mate with them.
A coyote poses no threat to me, but most land owners with livestock will agree with me shooting them.
Read pest control.
I was taught to look for tracks and sign, you could actually tell by the feces which coyotes had been hitting the livestock. The turds were darker indicating higher protein levels and they were also filled with hair. So you find tracks then dark fibrous feces and you were on the trail of on of the calf killers. Often times you would also find bob tailed calves who had gotten away.
I generally had no issue taking coyotes or raccoon at the time, although bobcat were much more valuable I felt a bit different about taking them.
There are less than 20,000 African Lions left in the world. The only reason they are not on the endangered species list is political bullshit.
At the current rare of decline the species will be extinct in less than 40 years.
I have no sympathy for the poacher or anything that happens to him.
As for the people who claim this was just to distract from Planned Parenthood… I laugh every time I hear that. First off the Planned Parenthood crap is mainly crocked up from edited videos. And secondly we can care about mroe than one issue at a time. I can oppose abortion and be outraged that it happens and still be outraged that this happened.
As terrible as abortion is, it isn’t going to lead to the extinction of the human race. Jackasses like this poacher are going to lead to the extinction of the African Lion. And while given the choice between saving a human life and a Big Cat, I would (usually) choose the human, this isn’t some zero sum game.
not excusing the hunter but the gene pool didnt lose much when Cecil got poached. Cecil was 13 years old and lions have a lifespan of 10-14 years. He’s already at the end of his rope
He was actually expected to live another 5-6 years.
Also don’t forget that without him his Cubs would be killed. His brother is protecting them but if he is killed as well they are all dead.
Oh no. A lion that no one in the world aside from some university zoologist majors knew about died via a legal hunt someone forked over a lot of money for, and the whole damn world loses their mind. Hey let’s go call for the death of the guy who bought the hunt. He deserves it…
“The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
"…why is the outrage over the act so out of proportion with that over the abortion industry selling baby parts? But here is an even better question: what is the connection between the lack of uproar over abortion and the over-the-top uproar over lion-killing?
There is a connection. A few good quotations from G.K. Chesterton will explain it.
First, Chesterton says that if there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals. This explains why abortion is legal, but smoking a cigar in a public park is illegal. This explains why the modern world is more upset about the killing of one lion than the slaughter of millions of babies. It explains why their veins pop from their necks that a game hunter would stalk a wild animal in order to stuff it as a trophy, but they ignore the systematic dismemberment of live babies extracted from their mother’s wombs so as to save the best parts for resale. It is something of an understatement to say that their major morals are weak and their minor morals are strong, but that is still the essence of it.
But when did hunting turn into a sin?
It happened when we stopped worshipping God and started worshipping Mother Nature. And at the same time that hunting was becoming unpopular and then unacceptable, abortion went from being a crime to being a right. Chesterton says, “Wherever you have animal worship, you will have human sacrifice.” That is why there are more pet stores than baby stores in our strip malls and why there is now a price on a lion-hunter’s head while Planned Parenthood rakes in millions of dollars. We have sacrificed our babies to the Earth Goddess.
This worship of nature is a great fallacy, but as Chesterton says, “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies even if they become fashionable.” The problem comes from calling Nature our Mother. Chesterton says, “Nature is not our mother, nature is our sister, because we both have the same father.” We love our sister, we respect our sister, we laugh at our sister, we watch out for our sister, “but she has no authority over us.”
That’s great and all but this whole notion of trying to intertwine the death of the lion and the activities of planned parenthood and the abortion industry at large is simply asinine. People are not incapable of finding equal outrage in dissimilar events. Personally I find abortion abhorrent. I also personally find the unnecessary destruction of nature and specifically the elimination (for what ever reason) of an already severely diminished species, equally abhorrent. No conceptual framework required. It’s a matter of respecting life, wherever it may be found.
How in the world can cold-bloodedly killing helpless unborn human babies, and then selling their brains, hearts, livers, spines, and limbs for financial profit, be “equally abhorrent” to bow hunting a lion?
Would you rather I quantify it and state that abortion 68.2% more abhorrent than the poaching of a lion?
No. I would rather know just how in the world cold-bloodedly killing helpless unborn human babies, and then selling their brains, hearts, livers, spines, and limbs for financial profit, is “equally abhorrent” to bow hunting a wild lion.