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Post by indyqdog on May 7, 2012 18:58:52 GMT -5
I was watching TV and saw all these glorified hunts that i feel misrepresent hunting. and it made me think about what i couldnt shoot. here's my list.
Elephant Lion Rhino cape buffalo zebra anything high fenced a bear is highly debatable
just wondering what you guys couldnt shoot. for me, its because i could not kill those animals because i probably wouldnt eat them and in africa, idk where the meat goes. just wouldnt be comfortable. it just made me uncomfortable mainly for elephants to watch a specific episode where a business executive walked up, sketchily pointed his gun at the elephant and took 4 shots to the head to kill it. afterwards everyone praised him for his 10 yard shot(s) i guess i dont have what it takes for the big 5... oh well, my dream is to do all the turkeys in the US in one season with a bow. but thats just a dream!
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Post by kevin1 on May 7, 2012 19:15:06 GMT -5
I won't hunt any species that views me as a food group. ;D
Absolutely nothing high fenced, those are the only "preserves" that have ever made me consider becoming like those Whale Wars idiots. If I wanted to shoot livestock I'd change careers and work at a slaughterhouse.
No predators, they might beat me to the shot, and I couldn't outrun them.
Waterfowl, never liked the taste of any of them.
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Post by swilk on May 7, 2012 20:19:16 GMT -5
I could/would kill any critter that met two criteria:
A population great enough to somewhat justify its killing.
A fighting chance to get away.....no fences.
Several of the critters you listed are on my "once I hit the lottery" bucketlist. Alaska Brown and African Cape would be right at the top.
I do believe any critter killed in africa is not wasted. At all. The money brought to their economy and the meat/hide brought to its people is likely better used than most situations in America.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2012 20:37:03 GMT -5
There isn't any that I wouldnt hunt if money wasn't an object. While elephants aren't on my list, I know why people hunt them. If people didn't hunt them, they probably would be an endangered species now.
Lions and tigers, not in my budget, if they were, I'd like to do it. I will make the trip someday and take a cape buff. It's on the list.
My ultimate goal us a grizzly or brown bear. Someday, somehow I'll get the chance.
Short goal is Amarican bison. The thrill of the hunt isn't what it was 200 years ago, but its still the same animal.
I was born to hunt, and plan on fulfilling my legacy. Each and every animal on the planet presents some challenge of some sort. I also not opposed to high fence its not for me but its not for me to get worked up about. It's a non issue far as I'm concerned, as long as the wild herd is not compromised.
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Post by dbd870 on May 8, 2012 4:23:57 GMT -5
Can't say there is anything in particular that is out; some would be more interesting to me than others though. If I was to go for something other than the normal midwest fare it would be elk - it is very tasty.
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Post by duff on May 8, 2012 4:59:19 GMT -5
Any of us could shoot anything out there. I have no desire to travel out of country for the most part so that knocks most of those off my list that I won't shoot. Never thought about what I would or wouldn't shoot. I have however thought of what I would really like to shoot and that would be an elk and a moose. Not sure that I will ever get it done but I tend to think like that as opposed to what I would never shoot, given the opportunity.
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Post by Boilermaker on May 8, 2012 7:28:49 GMT -5
I have absolutely no interest in taking a bear. I don't know why but it just never thrilled me much watching guys shoot a bear that's eating from a trash can full of bait tied to a tree. I know that's not how all bear hunts go; and I'm not exactly in the market for a bear rug. Also, I saw a baboon or similar primate at a taxidermist shop someone had taken in Africa; that's just a little too human-like for my taste.
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Post by trapperdave on May 8, 2012 8:04:37 GMT -5
Zebra. I dont shoot horses lol
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Post by Deleted on May 8, 2012 8:21:58 GMT -5
I wouldn't want to kill an elephant...just too danged intelligent, there is something about them that takes them off my list of game animals. Most everything else would be doable for me if I had the time and money.
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Post by Ahawkeye on May 8, 2012 8:23:42 GMT -5
I don't think I could pull the trigger on: An elephant a lion a rihno any baited animal. Now, I would shoot anything if it were after me or my family.
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Post by Woody Williams on May 8, 2012 8:54:39 GMT -5
My opinion only on what I could not shoot. It does not bother me that others would have no problem shooting any of these.
1) Elephant 2) hippo 3) any primate 4) musk ox 5) any cat .. I'm a cat lover
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Post by old3arrows on May 8, 2012 10:00:12 GMT -5
Indydog, I've been to Namibia to hunt plains game with a bow. None of the meat goes to waste, as the trackers, skinners, laborers, and their families all get a share of the meat. How it worked on our concession that we hunted was that the choice cuts, ie loins, were saved for meals for the PH, his family, the hunters, and any guests. I don't know if they would eat any cats like leopard, cheetah, caracal, or stuff like that, but anything else from elephant to dik-dik was fair game. Apparently they really liked warthog. All meat was butchered in a very clean facility, deboned, and wrapped in to 1 and 2 pound packages then frozen. During the non hunting months this meat was allocated out along with cornmeal, flour, and rice to the workers mentioned above. The skinners/meat cutters get to take all of the organ meat, and I have video from a friends previous hunt where the trackers have the guts out off a cape buffalo in a 55 gallon drum and they are chumming for lions from one bait site to the next and cutting junks of intestine off with a knife and eating it raw! They also take the meat in to their huts and villages and dry it in the sun, basically making jerky called biltong. I don't know if they seasoned it, but after a kill you would see this stuff hanging from trees and bushes in their yards. I will try to post a pic later. The thing is, they didn't use netting or cheesecloth, and the flies and insects would be all over the stuff. The natives can eat it with no adverse affects, but it would probably kill us! Of a night when you were driving back to camp you would see them roasting a chunk of meat over an open fire and cooking cornmeal cakes in a flat skillet. Then they would dice up the meat and eat it with the cornbread almost like a fajita. As for what I would not shoot:
Grizzly in the Lower 48 Polar Bear Elephant Rhino Tigers
Everything else is fair game and table fare!
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Post by oneshot on May 8, 2012 10:07:31 GMT -5
No canned hunt, other than that I wouldn't have any regrets hunting any legal game animal. Especially the African big 5. Those are about the only hunting shows that I watch any more.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on May 8, 2012 12:26:47 GMT -5
Any critter that involves a "real" hunt!
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Post by windingwinds on May 8, 2012 14:13:59 GMT -5
I can't see myself shooting a Zebra. I don't eat waterfowl, so I don't hunt any of them. Would like to try a Gemsbuck in New Mexico, but that's a powerballdream hunt for sure. Then it's Elk and Antelope out west. As to predators, if I see a need to reduce them we trap or going to try snaring this fall. I have a hard time just shooting something for the fur. But population control is important.
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Post by featherduster on May 8, 2012 18:13:50 GMT -5
Moose or Cougar unless they become over populated.
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Post by antler on May 8, 2012 20:41:00 GMT -5
Zebra. I dont shoot horses lol
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Post by lugnutz on May 8, 2012 21:51:01 GMT -5
I couldn't/won't shoot an Albino deer. Everything else is open game for me.....
Within the next 4 years i will go on an, African Safari hunt, would love to take an elephant! Still debating on the weapon of choice though.
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Post by span870 on May 9, 2012 4:44:25 GMT -5
Posted by featherduster on Yesterday at 6:13pm Moose or Cougar unless they become over populated.
Just curious. Why not a moose? Not trying to argue that you should or shouldn't, just wondering.
Mine would be any of the cats except african lion. A treed bear or mountain lion. Have to go with elephant too. Will take exception to the babboons. Hate those mean little suckers. If I ever get to Africa they are fair game.
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Post by featherduster on May 9, 2012 5:53:49 GMT -5
I have made approx. 12 to 14 trips into the canoe areas of Canada and the United States and have encountered them on many occasions, sometimes as close as 50 feet. They are in my opinion the gentle giants of the north and I have enjoyed their company.
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