Originally posted by NUKE
Nope, don't support doing anything illegal, like poaching.
In Arizona you can go kill mountain lions, coyotes and even gophers.......yet nobody eats them. I guess it's for fun.
In many countries in Africa all you need to do is pay enough money to the gaming authorities and you can get a license to shoot pretty much whatever you like.
Had a client pass around pictures of his , and his son's "kills" on one such African excursion around the table after dinner once. I looked at the first two, I think, and then just passed them on.
He justified all of it because tribes from hundreds of miles around carried away the carcasses and it fed them all for months, probably. These same tribes however would not have starved without the hunt. To them it was a treat.
Fact is, he did it for the sheer joy of killing those beautiful creatures.
When the bottom fell out of the market his business was in and he had to sell the house in Beverly Hills and his 100 foot yacht I smiled at my inner buddha.
