Is there any animal you wouldn't hunt ?

dannymat said:
Anything endangered.
Protect them, and do anything possible to help their numbers grow.

I'd love to goto africa on a white rhino hunt, but lets get them off the endangered species list first, then they're fair game!
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White rhino are not endangered in RSA. North of there yes but in SA the have been downlisted to CITES App 2 (years ago already).

North of SA they are essentially 'functionally' extirpated. IOW without constant monitoring they would likely be done for...
 
Wolves, coyotes, grizzly bears,cats.

My friends do and I figure to each his own I guess, but I'm not interested in eating those species, nor do I ever have anything mounted so they are of no interest to me.
 
I grew up in the country and my brother and I were allowed to go out on our own with our .22's once we were both older than 10. Those were the days... We shot anything and everything that moved and was small. Sounds crazy if you grew up in the city and constantly had the brainwashing about animals blah blah blah. After killing something it gave me the chance to examine every detail about the creature. Just like any historical biologist did going to new lands. Seeing those fine details helped me become the wildlife artist I am as an adult. I learned to draw wings of small birds by having the actual sample in hand.

As an adult I've grown more selective on using up ammo but still if it something that is not protected like crows or porcupines BANG. If it has a hunting season listed then it gets hunted only in that season. Country vs City attitudes about killing critters are usually very different.
 
I think I would have a hard time pulling the trigger on a bobcat, mainly cuz I find them cute. However, I would love to put a leopard to bed.

Nothing really, I shoot anything that's legal and someone does the scouting for me.
 
I would love to hunt big cats but i wont if i have to use dogs,i find that using dogs takes the hunt out of it.

but like others have said if you use dogs its fine its just not for me.
 
caster456 said:
I would love to hunt big cats but i wont if i have to use dogs,i find that using dogs takes the hunt out of it.

but like others have said if you use dogs its fine its just not for me.
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The PH I was with in Africa said he hates hunting big cats with dogs. Baiting, they have a 50% success rate, or slightly less, over a 5 day hunt on leopard. With dogs, it's 100% on every dog hunt he was on over the same 5 days of pushing bush. The dogs are non-selective too, and run a cat indiscriminate of male/female etc. Not sure how I feel about it, but I think it is possible baiting's more sporting than dogs, though the general conception is that dogs are fair chase and baiting less so oddly enough. On bait, it's up to the cat's discretion whether or not to approach, if you trick them, well that's hunting, just like tricking a bull elk with a call. Dogs, well, that's just a bit different from my perspective, scaring the animal to death over a prolonged period of time before treeing or baying it and shooting it.
 
Ardent said:
The PH I was with in Africa said he hates hunting big cats with dogs. Baiting, they have a 50% success rate, or slightly less, over a 5 day hunt on leopard. With dogs, it's 100% on every dog hunt he was on over the same 5 days of pushing bush. The dogs are non-selective too, and run a cat indiscriminate of male/female etc. Not sure how I feel about it, but I think it is possible baiting's more sporting than dogs, though the general conception is that dogs are fair chase and baiting less so oddly enough. On bait, it's up to the cat's discretion whether or not to approach, if you trick them, well that's hunting, just like tricking a bull elk with a call. Dogs, well, that's just a bit different from my perspective, scaring the animal to death over a prolonged period of time before treeing or baying it and shooting it.
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It is always interesting to see how people rationalize their type of hunting to make it seem more sporting than another...
 
With the exception of wild horses which must be cropped from time to time, I don't think that there is any North American big game I would pass on. On the other hand I passed on some African game that I had the opportunity to shoot. I wouldn't take a zebra or a baboon . . . the zebra to me is like a wild horse and there's something tasteless about sending an ugly little man to a taxidermist; although my partner on the hunt thought a trio, "hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil" might be cool in the den; and baboons had the cheapest trophy fees of all our Tanzanian game at only $90 each. We tracked a big croc for several miles along a dry creek bed, and if we had caught up with him, I'd have a new pair of cowboy boots, but it wasn't to be. Of the great cats, I would love to hunt lion, but would pass on leopard. I'm not sure why that is, but probably because it is impossible to still hunt a leopard, while only stupid but not impossible to still hunt a lion in heavy cover.
 
This topic has caused me to reflect quite a bit on the issue at hand. I've never hunted, because I'm waiting for my PAL right now. I got into firearms BECAUSE I wanted to hunt, mainly small game however.

I've come to the conclusion: I'd hunt anything legal/in season, using whatever method is accepted locally, or by law.
 
crazy_davey said:
It is always interesting to see how people rationalize their type of hunting to make it seem more sporting than another...
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Not really, as my PH does both, with dogs, and baiting. He just hated being asked to do dog hunts by clients, and had a heavy preference for baiting because he felt terrible for the cats on the hound hunts. I respect his opinions, as this is a guy who hunts more big cats in a year than 99.9% here do in a lifetime.
 
keenan53 said:
So no one here shoots crows?
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Not sure about out in the potato patch (PEI) but in the West I believe (and don't take it as gospel, it just what I was told at a Game Association function) is that it is illegal to dispatch with a scavenger ie. crows, ravens, magpies,etc.

It has to do with thier place in the ecosystem cleaning up carrion and such.

Tough to argue when a magpie or bluejay is screeching outside your bedroom window at 4am but he law is the law:D.

For me though my wife has dictated that I can no longer hunt the Long Legged White Tail or its couch time again...

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