Dallas Safari Club Black Rhino Hunt?

[bobabode]

http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/li...ck-rhino-hunt/

WTF? File this 'un under, 'Let's Dump Texas' or just 'dumb and dumbest'.

[donquixote99]

There's this little issue I have with this idea. I mean, big money for conservation sounds swell and all, but who actually wants to actually shoot a black rhino? What's wrong with these people?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

There's this little issue I have with this idea. I mean, big money for conservation sounds swell and all, but who actually wants to actually shoot a black rhino? What's wrong with these people?

I suppose that if you're one of the few with the inclination and funds to hunt the big five, the black rhino would be considered the ultimate prize.

The prize of a lifetime.

Chas

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

I suppose that if you're one of the few with the inclination and funds to hunt the big five, the black rhino would be considered the ultimate prize.

The prize of a lifetime.

Chas

At which point do we stop trophy hunters from driving a species into extinction?

[Charles]

Originally Posted by bobabode

At which point do we stop trophy hunters from driving a species into extinction?

Actually, it's the poachers who have driven them close to extinction, not the trophy hunters.

They're a different breed, and if you're not a hunter I doubt that you can understand them at all. They are also staunch conservationists, hence the reason for this safari. They put their money where their mouth is.

Chas

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Charles

Actually, it's the poachers who have driven them close to extinction, not the trophy hunters.

They're a different breed, and if you're not a hunter I doubt that you can understand them at all. They are also staunch conservationists, hence the reason for this safari. They put their money where their mouth is.

Chas

Yeah, right. Let's kill one of the last black rhinos to save the species. You'ld be making me laugh if that position wasn't absurd on the face of it.

I'm no hunter but I do fish and every California Black Seabass that I've caught was revived and sent back into the briney deep to live another day and if I saw another angler catch and keep one, the department of Fish and Game would be waiting at the dock. Shit, I've said it before and I'll say it again-I don't have a problem with hunters taking game as long as they eat it and I don't care if they display the rack on the wall. Hell, they're saving me a big fix it bill from running over some mangy muley on the highway.

It sounds like you're being just contrary today to get your rocks off. Grab a cold one and think it through, buddy. The old days off bagging the big five for a trophy mount are over unless you want to do it bowhunting, imo. I would love to see a dumb mother**ker from Dallas go after a Cape Buffalo with a compound bow.

edit-I would pay to see it.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Charles

They're a different breed, and if you're not a hunter I doubt that you can understand them at all.

What's to understand? People get turned on by all sorts of things, and having a particular obsession does not make one special. Sheesh.

Here, Ninotchka's attitude on flirting is rather similar to my attitude on hunting of endangered species:

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/1596813

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Charles

I suppose that if you're one of the few with the inclination and funds to hunt the big five, the black rhino would be considered the ultimate prize.

The prize of a lifetime.

Chas

OK, I understand some people may have more hunt/kill instincts than I do, but I don't think this 'prize of a lifetime' is anything real. I mean, after you've killed a Black Rhino, what will have changed?

Other than a rare creature being converted to meat that will rot, that is.

[Charles]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

OK, I understand some people may have more hunt/kill instincts than I do, but I don't think this 'prize of a lifetime' is anything real. I mean, after you've killed a Black Rhino, what will have changed?

Other than a rare creature being converted to meat that will rot, that is.

If you had a chance to come home with a JBL Paragon, would you do it?

Chas

[d-ray657]

I saw this one covered on the Colbert Report.

Regards,

D-Ray