A warning to hunters

???I don't hunt but thats because i don't know how to! Unfortunately we live in a world where human life has become so devalued that it has less importance than an animals! I have heard the over population crowd would like to see numbers of humans reduced and talk of humans as being a cancer on society! Actually the population will stabilise and then go into decline! To make comments about wanting to hunt humans rather than animals is lunatic psycho talk that is calling for human genocide.

LOL , to be fair TM , its an old argument i researched a while ago when the Robert Borsak elephant hunt was the hot topic and everyone wanted to lynch mob the bloke for participating in a bloody conservation program , I have to be honest here , if i had not of looked past all the hype i would have thought that he had poached or shot it illegally as well , i grew up on stories of hunters and explorers with ship loads of ivory and it was all very romantic when the herds were massive back in the 17/ 1800s ,but after the decimation of the African wildlife i would not have personally hunted an elephant or a lion even if it was legal as the idea of taking an endangered animal as a trophy is not right , but once you scratch beneath all the bullshit the anti's throw around its a whole different story , yeah in some parts of africa elephants and lions are endangered because of poaching , if you look further you will see the countries that have outlawed hunting of these animals have massive poaching problems , no community support and no animals in very short order , while the countries with the campfire program up and running have more elephants and lions then the landscape can sustain , making periodically culls very necessary, and profitable, sometimes like in the case of the borsak elephant you get problem animals that need to be put down regardless of herd size , the elephant in question had developed a thing for crops and was causing massive damage and refused to be moved ( which elephants find surprisingly easy to do i would think lol  )  , these antis will not see sense , they would prefer to move the village and let the people starve then shoot the elephant even if the survival of the rest of the heard could be secured with the auction of the death of a single problematic animal , the game farms in texas are under constant attack by so called animal rights activists , their line is that they should not be hunted full stop , even if it meant the total extinction of the species , if the only reason they are there is to be hunted then they should not be there , how can you argue against such stupidity ?  

Wild pigs do over $106 million dollars damage a year
www.feralscan.org.au/feralpigscan/pagecontent.aspx?page=feralpig_feralpigdamageanoverview
Rabbits $206 million dollars damage a year
www.feral.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/RABFS3_impacts.pdf
Foxes over $100 million dollars damage per year
www.animalcontrol.com.au/foxes.htm
Camels over $10 million dollars damage per year
www.feralcamels.com.au/impacts-and-environments-risk#CostingFCdamage
Also don't forget cats, buffalo, cane toads, donkeys, wild horses, goats, deer, the list goes on.

So, as a proud Aussie red blooded male, if I kill one of these introduced species, for the most part I am filling my freezer full of meat, and, I am also saving the native flora and fauna of this fragile eco system.

Me, I hunt, and have done so from a young age. Dad had a poor paying job ( he was a minister ), so every 6 months we loaded the freezer onto the trailer, went to the Flinders ranges in SA, and filled the freezer full of rabbit, roo and goat meat. If we were lucky, the station owner threw in a hogget if we knocked off a lot of foxes. For us, hunting was not a sport, but a means of feeding the family.
There is a difference between hunting and shooting too. In our area there is a problem with feral deer, so, to help keep the population under control, shooters take out the big bucks with the big racks. Not only do they end up with a nice rack to hang on the wall, but, over 100kg of meat.

So, off to the fridge now, got a pork leg roast that needs a good whalloping!!

wow, clearly this is a pretty heated topic! just my 2 cents, i actually had quite an argument with a effing townie recently, she was *soooooo* against hunting of all kinds. so i said, well, do you prefer baiting then? as that is actually far less humane and is quite a horrid way to go!, she said, oh, no, i dislike that too, so i retorted with, so what, let introduced pests destroy our farms and bushland? is that preferable to you? by this stage she well n truly had both feet in her mouth, she had talked her way into a corner where she had to admit that hunting was a better alternative than the other two options, but her big mouth and even bigger ego didnt want to admit she was wrong! lol

also, with those hunts in south africa, the income from them goes to controlled breeding. they breed from a lioness, take the cubs so she can breed again, and give the cubs to raisers who use them for photo opportunities. the whole system is corrupt beyond a joke. there is no actual interest in conservation, beyond breeding animals to be shot, that have no natural fear of humans, as they were RAISED by them, have no chance to escape or fight back, to me its about as pathetic as having a cage fight with a person in a wheelchair. anything anyone who participates in these pathetic pseudo hunts is trying to prove is proved in reverse. it proves they are not real hunters, have no real skill, no real guts. if they were on fire n i had a bottle of water, id rather sit n drink n watch them burn, or tip it out while they watch, out of sheer contempt for their pathetic excuse for hunting.... sorry, rant over... lol

Just a word of warning about 1080 poison about the effects and how cruel this shit is. Use this to prove to the naive tree hugging, nature loving twits that think there's a more humane way than a bullet.
Mind u I have been known to thump someone if they are cruel with a rifle ( cos they can't shoot for shit ) and not follow up and finish the job or shoot something they are not meant too.

what makes me shake my head about all this is the animal lovers are the ones making the most damage. Common sense doesn't prevail any more.

 

Lol, dont worry mate, youre not saying anything im not ^_^ and im glad you whacked them, somebody needs to remind them that they cant get away with being careless or cruel imho that 1080 should be banned. Too many native animals die, too many dogs are baited with it, and as you showed (and i dont have the heart to watch, i know its a shockingly bad way to go)... if people really cared about the welfare of the animal being culled, theyd promote shooting. Its not their fault they were introduced to an ecosystem not used to them, theyre just trying to survive like we would in the same situation.

pffft, if she was such a good hunter she would hunt something without it being raised with ppl and stuck in a cage. you take more risks when going pigging than she did. also shows more hunting skill to hunt something that actually knows to gtfo at first sight/smell/sound of you. its like walking up to a labrador and shooting it. same level of skill imo. and yes, indeed i would for a pathetic piece of crap like her. she can walk up n shoot something with no fear or instinct to escape, let alone a means to, i can walk away while she burns to a crisp. at least i know a monster died, where she is killing things that have been deprived of every chance to live.

well, he should know better than to try calling someone out on their opinion... >;(

If she was a *real* hunter, she wouldnt need essentially handicapped animals to hunt. Would you go shoot a domestic pig and call yourself a hunter? Doubt it, youd be a laughing stock. This is NO different. Why not hunt like african warriors do? THAT is having a pair. Shooting a sometimes drugged animal with impaired instincts in a cage is about as awesome as punching a puppy in the face for all the same reasons.