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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:27:23 PM EDT
[#1]
The idea does nothing for me. Killing a huge animal like that just for the hell of it.
To each their own I guess...... |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:33:56 PM EDT
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It's obvious who has gone to a public school. I'm still chuckling at the statement of "hard hunting".
 I don't hunt elephants for the simple reason of cost. Same thought process goes for any other African hunt. If anyone else wants to pony up the cash, feel free. That's why I like hunting in Texas. Lots of African plains game to be found and no taking out a loan to shoot the things.  |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:40:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: It's obvious who has gone to a public school. I'm still chuckling at the statement of "hard hunting". I don't hunt elephants for the simple reason of cost. Same thought process goes for any other African hunt. If anyone else wants to pony up the cash, feel free. That's why I like hunting in Texas. Lots of African plains game to be found and no taking out a loan to shoot the things. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:41:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Sooner do the Cape Buffalo.  Same. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:44:24 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Dwindling in some area's and over populated in others. They are very destructive animals and have to be managed. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Their numbers are dwindling daily, not for me although I understand it. The 'natives' get irritated when an elephant starts destroying crops and villages. Let alone an occasional native. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:48:47 PM EDT
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Yes yes yes.
Along with big dugga boy, cat and gemsbok. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:48:52 PM EDT
[#7]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You need your own Outdoor Channel Show: Tracks Across Wisconsin E1S1: Natty Light, Public Land and Deer Camp....Hunting Hard in the Kickapoo. That’s funny coming from a Texas man . Shiner Bock, a Taj Mahal elevated house and the sweet soft sounds of a beeping clicking deer feeder, all in the shadows of a nice high fence... |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:49:41 PM EDT
[#8]
I have Zero desire to kill an elephant.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:50:45 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: another ignorant post. lol @ helpless Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:52:21 PM EDT
[#10]
Not my thing.
I derive no pleasure from killing living creatures. If it doesn't fuck with me, it has nothing to fear from me. ymmv eta This naturally excludes animals that I actually eat. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:54:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas needs to bring in some African dangerous game. Hippos and buffalo would be a good start. Use elephants as being destructive as a reason for the need to hunt them in one breath and then talk of importing hippos for hunting in another. As far as overpopulation of elephants, again that is in a relatively small area. For an animal that once roamed much of the continent this is now where they lean be found. Spreading them out would help some of this problem. Culling would help in other areas.  Attached File |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:56:39 PM EDT
[#12]
Elephant is a bit too majestic to me to sport hunt. If I had a reason, like it was rampaging and hurting people or it was doing lots of damage and was a rogue elephant i would be on it in a heart beat.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:57:03 PM EDT
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Why? You can't take any of it home with you. No ivory, no skin to make boots.
Technically you can't even let your kids pick up a blue jay feather they found in the yard or let them glue it to a paper plate with macaroni. Laws have consequences and as many have said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 2:57:45 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong. If you eat the meat is it ok to keep the trophy? What if you give the meat to a needy family instead of eating yourself? Just trying to make sure where your morality meter stands. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:01:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why? You can't take any of it home with you. No ivory, no skin to make boots. Technically you can't even let your kids pick up a blue jay feather they found in the yard or let them glue it to a paper plate with macaroni. Laws have consequences and as many have said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Last I looked legally hunted ivory is still importable, but it can never be sold. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:01:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: another ignorant post. lol @ helpless Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:02:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Why? You can't take any of it home with you. No ivory, no skin to make boots. Technically you can't even let your kids pick up a blue jay feather they found in the yard or let them glue it to a paper plate with macaroni. Laws have consequences and as many have said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Completely wrong |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:03:04 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you eat the meat is it ok to keep the trophy? What if you give the meat to a needy family instead of eating yourself? Just trying to make sure where your morality meter stands. Some people don't like helping others. My son and I had three deer tags left over after we filled our freezer this year. We did our best to fill them... they get dropped off at the processor's, free of charge, never to be seen again. They get donated to Hunters Share The Harvest, and go to those who need the meat. Pretty much a local version of what happens with the meat in Africa. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:03:08 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why? You can't take any of it home with you. No ivory, no skin to make boots. Technically you can't even let your kids pick up a blue jay feather they found in the yard or let them glue it to a paper plate with macaroni. Laws have consequences and as many have said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:04:13 PM EDT
[#20]
Big huge nope from me
Morally and all that I dont have a problem Ive heard the hunts really benefit the locals and this and that. Not sure if true but Im sure its got to help their economy Anyways the big hard nope from me now a days is if some crazy lib found out you did it and went out of their way to ruin your life over it. Ive seen them succeed enough to make me uncomfy |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:05:59 PM EDT
[#21]
Probably the only animal I couldn’t shoot...
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:13:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: another ignorant post. lol @ helpless Let me go one step further all trophy hunters are morons. Ignorant call it what you like. Unless you were going to eat the meat of the kill just killing a beautiful animal for the sake of it is wrong.  How to eat an African Elephant. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:13:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Some people don't like helping others. My son and I had three deer tags left over after we filled our freezer this year. We did our best to fill them... they get dropped off at the processor's, free of charge, never to be seen again. They get donated to Hunters Share The Harvest, and go to those who need the meat. Pretty much a local version of what happens with the meat in Africa. Well you're obviously a horrible person for killing an animal you didn't eat  Obvious sarcasm (hopefully)....well done to you and your son 
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:14:57 PM EDT
[#24]
Need a few new trashcans.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:15:43 PM EDT
[#25]
I would if I could keep the ivories. Otherwise not worth it.
Already giving away the meat. That said if I had the money to hunt an elephant I’d have the money to have a second home in a country where the ivories were legal. That said it’s not very high on the list of “wants” to hunt. Top list of wants Wyoming Grizzly Wolf Moose Elk, just like every year. Mountain lion Hogs Likely next hunts Black bear Antelope Elk Deer |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:16:05 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: it all gets eaten... and sport hunting is the only reason these animals still exist in the wild. What a load of crap. Hunters are the worlds conservationists. That is just rationalizing killing for fun. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:17:14 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I would if I could meet the ivories. Otherwise not worth it. You can import the ivory and whatever else you want from the Elephant. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:18:06 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: What a load of crap. Hunters are the worlds conservationists. That is just rationalizing killing for fun. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: it all gets eaten... and sport hunting is the only reason these animals still exist in the wild. What a load of crap. Hunters are the worlds conservationists. That is just rationalizing killing for fun. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:18:12 PM EDT
[#29]
If I win the lottery, I would like to do some African hunting.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:19:56 PM EDT
[#30]
Killing endangered species for sport just to get your dick hard. Weird.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:22:29 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas needs to bring in some African dangerous game. Hippos and buffalo would be a good start. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It's obvious who has gone to a public school. I'm still chuckling at the statement of "hard hunting". I don't hunt elephants for the simple reason of cost. Same thought process goes for any other African hunt. If anyone else wants to pony up the cash, feel free. That's why I like hunting in Texas. Lots of African plains game to be found and no taking out a loan to shoot the things. Plenty of cape and water buffalo in Texas. I shot the latter in 2017. (same year I shot a zebra)
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:24:14 PM EDT
[#32]
Nah...
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:24:32 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: It's obvious who has gone to a public school. I'm still chuckling at the statement of "hard hunting". I don't hunt elephants for the simple reason of cost. Same thought process goes for any other African hunt. If anyone else wants to pony up the cash, feel free. That's why I like hunting in Texas. Lots of African plains game to be found and no taking out a loan to shoot the things. LOL, ok tex. The only hard thing about texas hunting is the atv drive to your elevated stand by a feeder. Oh, and opening the gate to the high fence enclosure that you're hunting in. Hunting hard means being out in the Wisconsin woods at 5am every day and hunting until dark, every day. Scouting on off days and in the summer. Not sitting in a heated stand, not road hunting (like so many "western hunters" do), not baiting (looking at you texas). Getting out to the middle of nowhere and walking several miles in and out each day, plus carrying the game out. Hunting in the mountains from dawn to dusk, walking back away from roads up steep hills, sometimes at very high elevation. Camping in the freezing ass cold and wind and subsisting on mountain house for a week. Packing a 200lb mule deer out over terrain that looks like a mine field of 300 pound legos. Spending the off season conditioning, shooting, conditioning, shooting, scouting, mapping, planning. < COC6 violation removed. Warning issued -- BB > |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:24:47 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Killing endangered species for sport just to get your dick hard. Weird. You do understand that something can be endangered in one area and overpopulated in another right? |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:25:45 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Killing endangered species for sport just to get your dick hard. Weird. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:27:19 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You do understand that something can be endangered in one area and overpopulated in another right? |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:27:38 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Killing endangered species for sport just to get your dick hard. Weird. Weirder is typing what you just did and not seeing the stupidity of it. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:28:44 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Probably the only animal I couldn’t shoot... Yep This . And a Giraffe . |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:29:28 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: LOL, ok tex. The only hard thing about texas hunting is the atv drive to your elevated stand by a feeder. Oh, and opening the gate to the high fence enclosure that you're hunting in. Hunting hard means being out in the Wisconsin woods at 5am every day and hunting until dark, every day. Scouting on off days and in the summer. Not sitting in a heated stand, not road hunting (like so many "western hunters" do), not baiting (looking at you texas). Getting out to the middle of nowhere and walking several miles in and out each day, plus carrying the game out. Hunting in the mountains from dawn to dusk, walking back away from roads up steep hills, sometimes at very high elevation. Camping in the freezing ass cold and wind and subsisting on mountain house for a week. Packing a 200lb mule deer out over terrain that looks like a mine field of 300 pound legos. Spending the off season conditioning, shooting, conditioning, shooting, scouting, mapping, planning. < COC violation removed. -- BB > You do realize that not all hunting in Texas is like what you see on TV? I don't know why I just asked that. It's obvious you don't. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:29:40 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: African Elephants are not even classified as endangered. Private land supported by sport hunting has brought their populations back to the point of overpopulation. But the idiots will keep bitching about hunting them as if they have a clue what they're talking about. Admittedly I'm not up to speed on what is endangered and where....thanks for letting me know. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:31:57 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Admittedly I'm not up to speed on what is endangered and where....thanks for letting me know. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: African Elephants are not even classified as endangered. Private land supported by sport hunting has brought their populations back to the point of overpopulation. But the idiots will keep bitching about hunting them as if they have a clue what they're talking about. Admittedly I'm not up to speed on what is endangered and where....thanks for letting me know. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:32:19 PM EDT
[#42]
These threads always bring out the Fudds. It's sad... Probably the same people who say "I believe in the 2nd Amendment, but..."
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:34:11 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You do realize that not all hunting in Texas is like what you see on TV? I don’t know why I just asked that. It’s obvious you don’t. I do know that, but you're not hunting exotic species outside a high fence, and that's what ol' tex said he does. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:34:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Elephants, big cats, giraffes, and zebras hold no appeal to me, but Cape Buffalo is on my bucket list. https://senalala.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Huge-Cape-Buffalo-Boss.jpg holy shit that thing is HUGE. I would love to hunt a big cape. Ideally from an APC,
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:35:31 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Sooner do the Cape Buffalo. Quote HistoryQuoted: Sooner do the Cape Buffalo. The Ultimate prize. My bucket list hunt. Quoted: This. Not opposed to it but could hunt a lot of cape’s for the price of one ele. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/123343/A2B2EC52-33BC-4BDC-A4C1-C06A54FB805F-1055154.jpg My man!! Living the dream! |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:37:41 PM EDT
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Quoted: You do understand that something can be endangered in one area and overpopulated in another right? Is the African elephant not an endangered species? Quoted: Elephants are not endangered and that's a weak attempt at an insult. Maybe try educating yourself instead of going off "feels" Turn off Disney and put on a nature documentary showing the damage Elephants do to their environment, crops and humans. LOL Elephants have been in Africa for millions of years but now they are the problem, not exploding birth rates of the other native's population. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:39:25 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Is the African elephant not an endangered species? Elephants have been in Africa for millions of years but now they are the problem, not exploding birth rates of the other native's population. No it's not. It's a vulnerable species with a rising population. and people over animals. If not for sport hunting there would be nothing but cattle in Africa. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:39:48 PM EDT
[#48]
I get the feeling OP opened this thread for the only reason so he could get to "educate" everyone who doesn't agree with him.
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:40:52 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do know that, but you're not hunting exotic species outside a high fence, and that's what ol' tex said he does. Actually, yes you can. They are all escaped exotics and can be shot on sight. The mouflon two weeks ago for example. No limit, no season and they have a breeding population. I also laugh at the "high fenced" BS. I hunt a lease bigger than the county you live in and it has no stands or feeders, Mr "Hard Hunter"  Let's play a game. Go to the Texas map. Find the town called. "Rock Springs" that's the south ranch entrance and the only place with any buildings or power. Now, find the town to the north up 377 called "Telegraph" 5 miles south of that is the north lease entrance. |
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Posted: 1/19/2021 3:41:03 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I get the feeling OP opened this thread for the only reason so he could get to "educate" everyone who doesn't agree with him. |
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