Lion skull beside black bear
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Dorian Gray
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BigUglyMan
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I'm in if we can cut a 3x1 deal- seriously.
The whole thing is rather SOMA-esque.
bearkilr
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Just watched a few video on YouTube about baboon hunting. Man,when a baboon got shot, he fell and died just like a person. Will you still pull the trigger?
Ardent
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Been there done that, have hunted baboon. Any time you gut any animal you can't help but note how similar we all are. We all have a pair of eyes, ears, even the same internal organs in extremely similar layouts, skin, blood vessels and circulatory system, how the blood carries oxygen and nutrients to muscles and organs... Personally I don't care what a person's take is on god or evolution, we're here to discuss hunting, and whether you believe in evolution or intelligent design nobody will argue the "designs", or "results" of the processes whichever you favour do not follow a near identical system. Some simply believe our cognition as humans in particular and self awareness are the result of a higher power, and some the result of amazing natural progression. All of us who've gutted an animal understand there is a common factor between all living things, it's not our place on a hunting forum to argue by which process that has occurred.
Under either consideration no, hunting relatives of ours does not trouble me where it is warranted and done ethically and sustainably. I see all living things as relatives of ours, and were I concerned with the minutia of where and when a creature is too similar to me or too smart for me to hunt, I would end up debating myself philosophically until the end of my days in an arm chair, attempting to set thresholds of creatures under and over which can, and cannot be hunted. Baboons are a problem in many areas, like coyotes, and I'll continue to hunt them and do my utmost to ensure they don't suffer.
Under either consideration no, hunting relatives of ours does not trouble me where it is warranted and done ethically and sustainably. I see all living things as relatives of ours, and were I concerned with the minutia of where and when a creature is too similar to me or too smart for me to hunt, I would end up debating myself philosophically until the end of my days in an arm chair, attempting to set thresholds of creatures under and over which can, and cannot be hunted. Baboons are a problem in many areas, like coyotes, and I'll continue to hunt them and do my utmost to ensure they don't suffer.
Very similar to mountain gorilla.
wait for them to come in camp and you will change your mind. they will tear apart a dog or anything else so easily... the 460 wea worked great in the case of close calls ...
i never tried to eat but it was a delicacy for most of the people i met in Africa ...
Yeah. Last night I watched more videos and got more educated. In fact, baboons can and will snatch an infant to eat if an adult is not around.
did you ever hunt them ... they can be like ghost and just at the limit where you cant shoot them ... dont assume that an internet video tells you everything ...
Nope I never have, but in the videos I have been watching, the majority are driving around and shooting them out of trucks or at watering holes, seems really easy to me. I say if Baboon hunting turns you on, then fill your boots makes no difference to me! lol
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Nope I never have, but in the videos I have been watching, the majority are driving around and shooting them out of trucks or at watering holes, seems really easy to me. I say if Baboon hunting turns you on, then fill your boots makes no difference to me! lol
this is not again because internet showing you this that the hunt is always the same ... where i lived they were considered pest and were not waiting for us to shoot them nor hunting them ... but again real experience and internet ...
we killed them because we had too.
Ardent
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I've also found them to be some of the most skittish animals I've hunted, where I hunted them. They typically started running at many hundreds of yards, this said the one the hand pic comes from was tearing apart camp. They're smart enough to be irrational, but everywhere is going to be different.
As for the blinds, that's not showing easy hunting, that's showing the end of a very long, very boring, very hot wait. Looks quick and easy when we watch the 2 min highlights of the actual shot.
As for the blinds, that's not showing easy hunting, that's showing the end of a very long, very boring, very hot wait. Looks quick and easy when we watch the 2 min highlights of the actual shot.
Hope you guys are not trying to justify anything to me! Like I said I have ZERO issues with hunting anything, much less Baboons. What I meant by it looks easy, I guess what I meant is that its easy compared to the type of huntig I do, which is extremely difficult in comparison. )
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