all ethical hunters: please share your thoughts...?

Question

a well-known farm stall not far from where i live, is famous for the variety of game (springbuck, eland, redbuck, etc.) they keep near the shop. a while ago, the owner had to shoot an eland, as it was very old. a "professional hunter" came to know of it, calling the owner and asking him to give him the opportunity to kill it in order to get a trophy. the "hunter" brought his bow and arrow, took the shot fifteen feet from the animal, injured it and let it bleed to death while watching.

please tell me that i, an ethical hunter, am not wrong in feeling like i could kill both the owner and "hunter" from a distance of fifteen feet!!

Answer 1

There will always be those who cast ethics out the window for success. That is why hunting is under attack worldwide.....Hunting, is entering the world of a wild animal that is on high alert 24 hours a day.....He has better sight, smell, and hearing than a human, and is on his own turf, knowing all the escape tactics. Taking a trophy is even harder, as you are stalking only one of many, and you have to outwit the many to get a shot at the one.......When the time comes for the shot, you owe it to the animal to take it quickly and as humanely as possible........In a true hunt, the animal actually has the advantage, and a hunter relies on his intelligence, and knowledge of the quarry's habits to turn the advantage his way.......We shall always have those among us like your "professional hunter", and we all bear the bruises from their actions.........

Answer 2

Well lets look at the facts...even an old wounded eland can hurt you when Injured. So this man might have been wise to keep back if all he had was a bow...

Now was this a trophy? Well only if you call going to a restaurant and picking out a lobster from the tank fishing?

Personally I don't blame you for feeling bad about all this...No mater how much we wish, we just cant force people to be ethical about anything....sighs...

Answer 3

YEA ME i do no longer TAKE A SHOT till that's a beneficial kill i do unlike head hunters I hunt doe i circulate after a 2 or 3 twelve months previous they are finished grown and the main suitable tasting i supply a million/2 my kill to the land proprietor the place I even have hunted over 2 an prolonged time if the deer would not drop instant i visit spend something of the day if mandatory to discover it i dont hunt throughout late evening purely for that reason i used to seize while i replace into youthful and can run my traps two times an afternoon fist element in morning and proper at sunset yet if you consider that i'm no longer able to try this anymore i do no longer seize i bye license each twelve months and hunt legally another element i additionally supply a steak or 2 away to those that has not at all had it and alot of folk love deer chili

Answer 4

This wasn't hunting, it was execution. The so-called pro hunter will probably now make up a real big lie(story) as how he tracked this wild beast for hours and finally managed to thread his arrow through the 75 yards of brush to successfully bag it. I don't like braggarts nor people that call themselves hunters when they buy canned hunts. I can understand the owner wanting to get some value (money) out of a loss of an animal but not sympathize with him or the so-called hunter. I hope you were jesting when you mentioned wanting to kill the two involved. You hurt your cause when you went over the edge with that statement.
Sarge

Answer 5

That ain't hunting in my opinion. It is nothing more or less than slaughter.

I might make such a kill for the meat, but I would not classify it as a trophy.

You can bet that low-life will hang the head on his wall and brag to his buddies about the long hard stalk and 50 yard shot he made, and that the eland dropped in his tracks stone dead.

I'd love to be there when he spins that lie and call him on it, giving facts, and if possible photos.

Doc

Answer 6

I would not go as far as killing another human. But I sure would be hard pressed not to take that bow and try and force it threw an orifice on this morons body.

It is horrible to do things like that and we are under attack every day then to go do that just adds fuel to the antis fire. It is like throwing gas on a fire to put it out does not quit work that way.

If this so called hunter is a local resident that you may see around the town I would make sure to ask him about his 15' shot on his old trophy Elend buck tied to a barn. I would do it loud enough so that other people heard it too.

I not very tacticful on things like this.

Answer 7

The situation you have described is completely unethical. And disgusting . And depending on where you live. Against the law. Would be considered cruelty to animals.
There is certainly more humane ways to dispatch an animal confined. in an enclosed area.

No-I am NOT an anti hunter. In fact have hunted most of my life. In most of the USA states and a few other countries.

Reading your remarks makes one feel quite angry.

Answer 8

There is no nice way to put this......"Canned Hunts SU*K."
For the life of me every time I hear stories like yours I want to just throw up. The is no logical reasonable explanation, nor is there a need for ANYONE, regardless of circumstance or excuse to do what you described.. I honestly think that it's greed motivated and the majority of those who participate in these canned hunts are incapable of hunting game any other way. I have met a few "Hunters" (And I am being totally sarcastic using the term "Hunter") that have participated in these hunts and have told them face to face just what I think of them, and their lame attempts at being "manly" and shooting a helpless confined animal.I'm sorry..As an "ethical" lifetime Hunter myself with 40+ years experience. I know I am personally, incapable of doing anything remotely resembling a canned hunt, and I have a major dislike and lack of any form of respect for of those that have been or ever will be involved in this activity..You are not wrong in your strong feelings, as they are shared by many, nor are you alone in how you feel.....

Answer 9

I agree with you. Ilived for 3 years on a game/hunting farm. Sickening I saw.

And in your defense, what you said "feel like killing both the owner and the hunter" That is south african figure of speech. Not at all the same as "considering" or "planing to kill them".

Just the eway south africans express themselves to elaborate. Any south african has said repeatedly "Ifelt like killing the speed cop, my mother in-law, my boss". They dont really mean that.

Regards W

Answer 10

Well you could, but that was neither a trophy, nor hunting. Professional hunters... not sure I can comment on that, it's like professional fishermen. You can't make a profession out of a hobby, if confused look up definition of profession in a good dictionary.