One thing I don't do is trophy hunting.
I have a cousin and he and his sons are experts in it with both rifle and cross bow.
They have tried to pursuade me over the years to join them in their sport, but I have always refused.
I heard from his father (my cousin) that the one son called me an idiot, but the father sorted him out as he knows about my wild young days and he has even kept the newspaper that I was in, An article about my progress in the boxing ring.
So maybe that guy that called you an idiot will be told by someone else that know you that he is an idiot.
Life has many turns mate and I believe that if one calls someone else an idiot, then he is in fact the idiot himself.
When a person resorts to derogatory name-calling it's time for me to check out. I mean, I don't have the gun debate as I said, but I'm happy to debate a point of view, discourse on various things; I enjoy it. But when things degenerate like that, well man, the old G-dog is done with it.
I reckon you would have been a bit of a wild man.
I rather step away and if someone insits then I laugh at them. Works for me.
Especialy if I twirl my fingers around my ears signifying madness as I walk away hahaha.
Mostly unhappy with my life as I was married very young and still stupid mate.
Btw. Leaving now for for the 12 o"clock appointment with the doctor to do the intraveneous drip feed.
I hope all is as well as can be with mate. Go get your treatment and be well.
Thank you for the care and yes, all went well.
Great to hear.
I don't object to trophies, as long as the animal is processed and eaten. Shooting just for the trophy is not hunting, and is disgusting!
🤠🤬😠Thankfully they eat the meat, but I see no sense in shooting a lion or a cheetah, leopard, crocodile or an elephant my friend.
I don't act holy when I say that we don't kill anything, but I understand culling needs and I don't understand lion farms where the caged animals are shot by some "hunter" just for their heads and skin. And of course the fame photo of the hunter kneeling with his rifle behind a dead lion that was taken out of it's cage and placed in open area that looks like the bush.
What a scam.
Agreed, that is abomination! The culled elephants are supposed to be given to local villages for food, and the money is used for elephant preservation, BUT that is only the legal, government controlled hunts.
Poachers need to be shot, and have their heads mounted as a warning.
Shooting a caged animal is disgusting! On the other side, hunted meat is better quality than anything you can buy. I had to go to a slaughterhouse floor for work one, and it was a place of nightmares! 30 years later I can still smell and hear that place....
Hunting is much more humane, with the exception of the twisted individuals who think they are macho for cage shooting! Hopefully, we will outgrow this abomination.
🤮🤬😡Our country is overun with poachers as people are desperate and they don't have jobs.
So annually about 300 Rhinos are killed and only their horns are taken. International syndicates buy the horns and trade with them. Money other species such as the Pangolin are also in demand on the black market.
Money talks here and anyone can be bought to look the other way. So the country is slowly being stripped of its wildlife. Same as it is with the illegal gold and diamond mining.
We have stopped eating venison a long time ago in support of those that are fighting this scourge.
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Poachers should be shot on sight! What they need is work to feed their families. Setting up manufacturing is difficult, and with the idiots we have in charge; we won't be able to manage this any time soon!
Here we have the reverse problem, the deer population is exploding. When I started hunting, we were able to take 2 deer a year; now the legal take is up to ten. They are damaging a lot of cars here now.
I wonder what industry would be a good fit over there? What resources could be value added there?
A different way to feed their families is the solution to this problem. Combined this with a serious policing of the horns etc; will shut down this terrible trade!
☠️😡🤬I think that we hold the record here with unemployment figures and as a charity we have skills training projects in an effort to get school leavers employable. But jobs are very scarce.
To overcome this we also encourage small own business attempts.
Many of the poachers have large families to feed and they are ideal targets for the syndicates, quick money rules and we have a real problem on our hands.
Ah if only we can sit with the animal population exploding it would be such a pleasure, but our stocks are dwindling by the day.
I suppose you have many guys culling over there ?
Now that is not easy, as it is difficult to become established here and the government has not made things any easier with all of the laws, rules and red tape. People are complaining by saying that they should open the economy to new players, but I cannot see this happening.
In the meantime we have what they call a brain drain, as many of the top minds are emigrating.
We have all of that with the new government grant for food and the poacher arrests are also successful, but yet the poaching continues to grow. It really is a very difficult situation, as when one poacher gets arrested 10 others are ready to take his place.
Such is life my friend.
We feed the homeless here, so I understand the increase! We have been feeding for the last decade, and despite spending on a record scale; those in need continue to climb.
They need to be able to feed their families, to begin to reduce this problem! I financed a Lady in Ethiopa for making clothes by buying her a sewing machine. She now has dozens including some that are electric. She employs most of her village, and put in a generator station that feeds the town. Sometimes a cottage industry can really grow!
With proper management, including full control of poaching; the wildlife can grow into a real asset.
Without work that pays a decent salary, the brain drain is unavoidable, SMH! But they also need to be able to feed their families....
Opening the economy to development is important, because most industry is expensive to startup.
Schooling is good, but there must be a job for those so trained.
One country in Africa was hiring poachers to hunt poachers, and doing some real good. Stopping the trade is the most important part of stopping this plague of evil!
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