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I was hunting around Somerset East and Pearston - the edge of the Karoo beautiful part of South Africa. This would be more west and north of Grahamstown Pretty much every plains game animal is available in the Eastern Cape - saw lots of Sable.
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Been to Pearston and Sommerset East three times since 2007. (Called for caracal by Port Alfred in 2011 - you're right, seems like most people use dogs).
It's an amazing part of the world and, in many respects, not that different from some parts of Canada (reminds me of the Okanagan).
Many of us are not at all happy with trophy hunting in general and the African one in particular. It looses completely the fundamental essence of hunting which was getting food on the table.
Killing an animal is not supposed to be done with joy but by necessity; (some First Nations "thank" to the hunted animal for its sacrifice).
Killing an animal is not supposed to be done with joy but by necessity; (some First Nations "thank" to the hunted animal for its sacrifice).
why necropost that thread to tell the world that many of you dislike it?
if you are not happy then do not read.
This is a free country with free speech. And CGN is not a tabloid blog where the uncivilised go to cast insults.
You have been reported.
. I would certainly like a crocodile hunt in my lifetime as well.
I allow you the right to speak your own mind..........but to say "MANY OF US" is arrogantly expanding your opinion onto others with out their permission. So CristianM I will address only your singular opinion..........I personally take great joy in the harvesting of stunning trophy animals and will continue to do so until I am no longer physically capable to do it. Your ethics are yours alone and have no bearing on my personal ethics any more than mine have relevance to yours. You don't get to say who should or should not do anything outside your own family and circle of influence. To post on here in a derogatory and disparaging manner only belittles yourself and certainly NOT Dugga Hunter. Your opinion and personal ethics are duly noted (if not agreed with), and you certainly have the right to hold those opinions and ethics, BUT what you do not have is the right to assert those opinions and ethics on others. Dugga Hunter was acting (I'm certain) within the game laws and game management programs of RSA, and therefore had every right to harvest the animals he did, and I hope it was with much joy and jubilation. Consumption is not the only legal and ethical reason to hunt, whether you agree or not.
I suspect you kill a few animals each year to feed upon............do you really need to do this? Can you not afford to buy meat at the store? If animals are so valuable, in your chosen set of ethics, perhaps you should consider not killing any and start buying your meat at the store.
This the eternal old and tired argument that meat hunters have higher moral ground than trophy hunters............blah blah blah blah...........
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Mr. Canon aint going anywhere Haha most of what he says I stand behind, he hasn't fully grasped his need to carry a hurt feelings kit along with him HAHAH
Indians uses to drive bison off cliffs to take a few and leaving behind heaps of them .
There is no way it is "supposed to be" Who decides this???? ,Each person has their own reasons and he already said the meat was used by the locals. Your way is not the only way. I don't even hunt at all, and your sanctimonious comment sets me on edge.
CristianM, exactly what do you think happens to the meat? Do you think it just gets left for the vultures and hyenas? Protein is the hottest commodity in most of Africa. Yes, in some parts of Africa, the meat goes to the local market. In most parts of Africa, the meat goes to the local villages, many of which supply the staff for the safari companies. "Trophy" hunters like Dugga Hunter actually feed more starving Africans and do more for local Africans that most of the NGO's combined. Who do you think pay for, build, and maintain wells in some of the remotest parts of Africa? Safari companies, that's who. Wells that benefit locals as well as wildlife.
Monies are also payed to the local tribes as well as part of the system, which in turn go toward building local infrastructure, like village wells, shools, etc. Those same locals then become the best protectors of wild life out there, because they know that they will lose out on all the revenue in addition to the protein. If the safari companies are forced out of business, the village loses that vital fiscal input, but they will still eat protein - only now it is poached with wire snares, or shot for the meat only.
If you do your research, it's generally the areas of Africa that don't allow hunting that have the least amount of wildlife - and it's not because of Safari hunting - it's because everything on 4 legs is seen only as a source of kabobs, and nothing else. Photo safaris don't pay for a 10th of what hunting safaris do. You really need to educate yourself.
By past posts it would appear that you are primarily a sport shooter and not a hunter... and yet here you are in the "hunting" forum, pulling up a year old thread in order to expound on your uninformed (and apparently) politically driven derision for the purpose of this particular forum... I would suggest that this is the very nature of "trolling..." thus, you are a troll.
If you want to be a participatory community member of CGN, stick to the areas of your interest... and operate with civility within the agreed upon confines (rules of conduct). Do not, enter an area with which you have little understanding and little experience and utter inflammatory comments that can serve little purpose other than to "pick a fight."
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