Hunting and fishing thread

[Rich52]

Post your favorite hunting and fishing pics and videos. Heres my kid at 9yo harvesting his first animal http://youtu.be/YPThTw7-xH8

A big King Salmon on light line. http://youtu.be/rfrDq3SVvkU

[VonMessa]

WOOO HOOO  dead animal pics.  I'm ready          

[Rich52]

WOOO HOOO  dead animal pics.  I'm ready          

I know you are. And you just couldnt help clicking the links could you? Like you couldnt help posting. But if you have nothing positive to add to the thread I'd appreciate you staying out of it. This is for the sportsmen and woman in the game.

[VonMessa]

I know you are. And you just couldnt help clicking the links could you? Like you couldnt help posting. But if you have nothing positive to add to the thread I'd appreciate you staying out of it. This is for the sportsmen and woman in the game.

You jump to conclusions awfully quickly for a LEO.  Perhaps it is the senility setting in? 

No, I'm serious.  Now nobody can complain about the pics.  HiTech said to make a new thread for hunting and you did 

Just no pics of white tails, please.

I live in PA and we have more of them here than we do people because the bleeding hearts have all but halted the population control hunts.

If I want to see a white tail, I can just look out my back window and watch them decimate my garden.  At least they leave the hops alone, though.

[Rich52]

Heres a 30 & 1/2" African waterbuck.


Even Africa residents go their entire lives without getting a 30. We walked all day looking for this one, dodging Rhinos and Buffalo in the Bushveldt. When I saw him my PH didnt have to say a word, I knew what I was looking at. It was a 200 yrd chipshot but to my horror the animal ran off apparently unharmed. When we inspected where he was at we saw the limb my bullet hit and richochet off of. The fur of the waterbuck is the same exact color as the tree limbs in the bush and I never saw it. While I was sick I lost the animal of a lifetime I was relieved he was OK and not wounded.

After lunch my PH said lets go back to the same area and sure as hell we ended up finding the same buck and this time I dropped him in his tracks with the big .375.

Here is the absolute worst animal you can walk up on in the African bush. The Black Rhino. Luckily we had the wind and just froze for 10 mins until he walked off. Being lucky enough to see a black in the wild means more to me then any animal I ever killed with gun or bow.


Heres the 2nd worst. A white mama with her baby.


Even if all you hunt with is with a camera everyone should go to Africa once in their lives. Sporthunting is a huge industry there and generates the money for conservation officers and habitat protection. By Law, and everywhere else I hunt, no edible meat can be wasted or left. Its all eaten. Thats why I get a laugh out of the knuckleheads who think we just shoot the animals, pose with them, and then leave them to rot. 

[tunnelrat]

Mega-awesome catch.

[Curval]

Hunting (sort of):



Fishing:



Wasn't my fish to be honest...but that's ALATA sushi.  Too bad the sharks took a hundred pounds or so.  (It could not have been a record anyway because the sharks killed it, to be a record you must do the dirty work)

[SoonerMP]

Heres a 30 & 1/2" African waterbuck.
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Even Africa residents go their entire lives without getting a 30. We walked all day looking for this one, dodging Rhinos and Buffalo in the Bushveldt. When I saw him my PH didnt have to say a word, I knew what I was looking at. It was a 200 yrd chipshot but to my horror the animal ran off apparently unharmed. When we inspected where he was at we saw the limb my bullet hit and richochet off of. The fur of the waterbuck is the same exact color as the tree limbs in the bush and I never saw it. While I was sick I lost the animal of a lifetime I was relieved he was OK and not wounded.

After lunch my PH said lets go back to the same area and sure as hell we ended up finding the same buck and this time I dropped him in his tracks with the big .375.

Here is the absolute worst animal you can walk up on in the African bush. The Black Rhino. Luckily we had the wind and just froze for 10 mins until he walked off. Being lucky enough to see a black in the wild means more to me then any animal I ever killed with gun or bow.
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Heres the 2nd worst. A white mama with her baby.
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Even if all you hunt with is with a camera everyone should go to Africa once in their lives. Sporthunting is a huge industry there and generates the money for conservation officers and habitat protection. By Law, and everywhere else I hunt, no edible meat can be wasted or left. Its all eaten. Thats why I get a laugh out of the knuckleheads who think we just shoot the animals, pose with them, and then leave them to rot. 

Nice pics! One of my best friends is a PH and is in Africa right now, Botswana I believe. What outfit did you use over there?

[Rich52]

Nice pics! One of my best friends is a PH and is in Africa right now, Botswana I believe. What outfit did you use over there?

My last was my best. Rhinoland safaris in northern RSA. My first two was with a guy who is out of business now. He'd organize different leases on tracts of land. I got my Kudu with him, another amazing animal. Nice birds Curv, Ive had 3 bird dogs thru the years.

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Rich you said you don't waist the meat(which I believe you).

 what gets done with? do they give it to the indigenous people?

[Rich52]

Rich you said you don't waist the meat(which I believe you).

 what gets done with? do they give it to the indigenous people?

In Africa? It all ends up eaten. At least the ones killed by hunters. Either by the hunters, the outfitters, or sold to provide cheap protein in the form of jerkie they call Biltong. I believe there is a program that gives to the poor as well for tax breaks. While they grow cattle in Africa they cant do it like we do here due to the terrain, diseases, insects, and wild predators. Wild game is an important food source. Unfortunatly poachers, all of them indiginous as you say, are an extreme threat to Africa widlife. That and habitat destruction. While it brings a teary eye to think of these poor people setting snares on game trails to feed their families, causing excruciating pain to the snared animal, the truth is they use the money to buy drugs and booze like they do here. Much of the time they never even go back to check their snares cause they were to drunk when they set them. That or they will skin the animal, or take its horns, and leave the rest for hyena bait. Hunt in Africa and you will spend a lot of time taking snares down.

Most big time Rhino and Elephant poaching operations are controlled by the bigwigs in Govt.'s/Militaries there. Like that Kenyan royal family that outlawed sport hunting and then ran a poaching ring that almost destroyed the wild animal resource of that nation and almost all the elephants. Same thing in Zimbabwe where the military dictator gave the hunting rights to his pals for poaching after he stole the lands of the white residents who had been there for hundreds of years. Now Zim is becoming a wasteland.

Obviously you arent going to eat cats, jackals or the like, or baboons. Nobody eats cats but the $10,000 to $60,000 spent by the hunter to take the cat will ensure there will always be habitat for the species and a healthy population. The only threat to the big cats are the poachers and habitat destruction, which have brought so many species to the brink you cant legally hunt them anyways. Even so sportsmen organizations like SCI are still heavily involved in ensuring their future. Critters like baboons and jackals have to be controlled or they will decimate the young of many species in the breeding season.

What I kill here I clean and cook myself. I still bowhunt deer but my days of killing Elk and Moose 5 miles from camp, and having to carry the meat back, are over. If I did that again I'd have to hire a few strong young backs to do the schlepping.

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In Africa? It all ends up eaten. At least the ones killed by hunters. Either by the hunters, the outfitters, or sold to provide cheap protein in the form of jerkie they call Biltong. I believe there is a program that gives to the poor as well for tax breaks. While they grow cattle in Africa they cant do it like we do here due to the terrain, diseases, insects, and wild predators. Wild game is an important food source. Unfortunatly poachers, all of them indiginous as you say, are an extreme threat to Africa widlife. That and habitat destruction. While it brings a teary eye to think of these poor people setting snares on game trails to feed their families, causing excruciating pain to the snared animal, the truth is they use the money to buy drugs and booze like they do here. Much of the time they never even go back to check their snares cause they were to drunk when they set them. That or they will skin the animal, or take its horns, and leave the rest for hyena bait. Hunt in Africa and you will spend a lot of time taking snares down.

Most big time Rhino and Elephant poaching operations are controlled by the bigwigs in Govt.'s/Militaries there. Like that Kenyan royal family that outlawed sport hunting and then ran a poaching ring that almost destroyed the wild animal resource of that nation and almost all the elephants. Same thing in Zimbabwe where the military dictator gave the hunting rights to his pals for poaching after he stole the lands of the white residents who had been there for hundreds of years. Now Zim is becoming a wasteland.

Obviously you arent going to eat cats, jackals or the like, or baboons. Nobody eats cats but the $10,000 to $60,000 spent by the hunter to take the cat will ensure there will always be habitat for the species and a healthy population. The only threat to the big cats are the poachers and habitat destruction, which have brought so many species to the brink you cant legally hunt them anyways. Even so sportsmen organizations like SCI are still heavily involved in ensuring their future. Critters like baboons and jackals have to be controlled or they will decimate the young of many species in the breeding season.

What I kill here I clean and cook myself. I still bowhunt deer but my days of killing Elk and Moose 5 miles from camp, and having to carry the meat back, are over. If I did that again I'd have to hire a few strong young backs to do the schlepping.

Thanx for reply....ya Poachers 

killin one of those awesome rino's you posted just for its horn....man o man would I love to be put in a room with someone that does that.
 a lot like what we did to the Buffalo here in America back in the day....what a waist 

[Rich52]

Thanx for reply....ya Poachers  

killin one of those awesome rino's you posted just for its horn....man o man would I love to be put in a room with someone that does that.
 a lot like what we did to the Buffalo here in America back in the day....what a waist  

Its worse, at least the Buffalo skins and tounges were used. The Rhino horns are used for medieval medicine that only a moron would believe in. Also rhinos were custom made for extinction. Not only do they have a very long gestation period for the mothers but a Rhino male needs another male of equal age and strength in order to get sexually excited enough to mate. In short you need two rhinos males, of close to equal status, to fight in order for one to get it up.

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Its worse, at least the Buffalo skins and tounges were used. The Rhino horns are used for medieval medicine that only a moron would believe in. Also rhinos were custom made for extinction. Not only do they have a very long gestation period for the mothers but a Rhino male needs another male of equal age and strength in order to get sexually excited enough to mate. In short you need two rhinos males, of close to equal status, to fight in order for one to get it up.

 

I know quite a bit about animals, but I did not know that

[Rich52]

An even sadder story is that of the Cheetah. Some years ago some Bambi loving genius, who probably hated dead animal pictures, decided it would be a brilliant move to ban the imports of cheetah hides in the USA to protect the animal. Heres the thing tho. The cheetah will kill an animal EVERY day, eat a small portion of fresh meat off the shoulder of its prey, and leave the rest for every other predator. So a few cheetahs on your land will tear up your hoofed species, the kind hunters spend big $$ to hunt, most of all during breeding season when the young have no chance against the cats.

To the Yank or Brit city slicker this is a good thing but to the guy owning or managing the land its a disaster cause the cheetahs are taking food out of their families mouths and bringing nothing back in return cause now hunters CANT/WONT hunt them cause they cant take the trophy back with them. So since the game on land, other then NTL parks, is all owned by the land owner they now shoot the cheetahs like vermin. They cant make money on it and indeed can only lose money, also its a threat to domestic stock. They set traps and kill them on sight. Meawhile the poachers still kill them for their hides and sell them illegally. The Bambi legislation is actually making the animal extinct.

Now IF visiting hunters would be allowed to import the hides those cheetahs would be worth $2,000 to $5,000 apiece to the land owners. They would now hold value and their survival would be protected and encouraged, bringing even more $$ into the one industry that provides habitat and healthy animal population, along with protection.

Haha, The Bambi crowd mostly goes ga-ga over the thought of the noble "indiginous" going out to hunt their game. Well these hunts are even more brutal then the slaughterhouse killings they crap out every morning. I cant show video of that either due to its brutality, "or did you think 2,000+ lb animals go down right off from little bows and arrows per Dances With Wolves"? They both make taking food cleanly with a HP rifle look like a mercy.