Hunter-Habib
AH legend
Hi Mr. @Mark Henderson
I absolutely love your content. It’s really annoying, but understandably inevitable that your hunting exploits would draw the attention of these keyboard commandoes.
Harassment towards our kind is unfortunately nothing new. When President Theodore Roosevelt was leaving for his African Safari in the early 1900s, thousands of dimwitted protesters were rioting at the docks of New York. In the 1950s, people would write hate mail to “Outdoor Life” insulting any hunter whom the magazine featured in their articles. I am a (semi retired) politician and a former MP (Member Of Parliament). I have been subjected to great slander since the early 1980s. When I was running for MP during my first term, thousands of mindless animal rights activists actually took to the streets in my district… demanding that I be barred from running as an electoral candidate. It didn’t work. I ended up successfully completing two terms in the Parliament and could easily have run for a third. But I stepped down only because I felt wanted to enjoy life. Those activists were a complete non Factor. I published my autobiography two years ago, where I decided to speak back against all of these braindead cultists. The book was very useful in getting my message across to the common masses (who are quite neutral in regards to hunting) in regards to the logical fallacies of animal rights activists. Yes, It did draw attention from more of these low IQ cyber bullies towards me. But I take that in stride. I know that these people hiding behind the safety of a computer screen and writing a bunch of baseless threats & insults… can’t really do anything to me or my loved ones. An Indian You Tube channel made a series of defamatory videos about me (using photographs taken from my autobiography which is for sale to the general public), but I fortunately had them taken down within a week.
That said, while harassment towards our kind is nothing new… the advent of social media platforms has indubitably made it easier for these animal worshipping cultists to target hunters. I have always believed that a smart phone in the wrong hands is far more dangerous than a hand grenade in the right hands. They can use it to spread a great deal of misinformation and outright lies about our kind, which their blind brain dead followers will readily swallow. For example, one anti hunting facebook group has been outright claiming that Mr. Buzz Charlton guided a hunt for a baby elephant. Another facebook group has been claiming that the King of Spain killed pregnant Romanian bears during a hunt. The daughter of a world renowned Botswana based white hunter recently committed suicide due to cyber bullying regarding her father’s hunting exploits.
My advice to you is this: Don’t stop being you. Don’t stop posting amazing You Tube videos or Facebook posts. Sure, you’ll attract hate. But always keep mentioning how sustainable hunting practices do far more for wildlife management than any so called “Animal Rights Activist” ever can. Give figures, provide anecdotes. The antis will obviously still keep hounding you. But they aren’t your target audience. Your target audience is two kinds of people:
1) Fellow hunters
2) The common masses who don’t hunt but aren’t actively out to get hunting banned either
It’s absolutely crucial that your message reaches out to to the latter group. They are the ones whose perception of hunting we seek to mould. The ones we seek to educate.
In regards to whether or not you should smile or not during a hunting photograph, that is totally at your personal discretion. Speaking for myself, hunting makes me extremely happy. I have absolutely zero regret in being a hunter. I know that my actions are having an overall positive effect on wildlife management & ecological balance (provided I hunt responsibly which I certainly hope that all of us are). We humans are key components of nature’s system of checks & balances. We are not mere spectators. I also know that I am dispatching my game animals far more cleanly and humanely that the deaths “Sweet Sentient Mother Nature” gives them.
If hunting does not make me happy, then I wouldn’t do it. I would leave it to those who feel happy doing it. Life is far too short to not do what makes you happy. I wouldn’t spend top Dollar and travel with my firearms for thousands of miles to hunt on an African Safari if doing so didn’t make me happy. Let’s forget about Africa for a minute. Let’s talk about hunting in my homeland. I wouldn’t crawl through thousands of yards of dense mangrove bush to hunt an Axis stag if it didn’t make me happy. Just yesterday, I went hunting for red jungle fowl. I didn’t spend seven hours in the humid summer heat walking through thorny bush if doing so didn’t make me happy. So yes, damn right I will be smiling during my hunting photographs. Not a Norman Bates psycho type smile, but a subtle tasteful one which highlights how much I have appreciated the hunt.
Yes, one can feel pity for the life lost. If anybody here has read my autobiography, then you will recall how I felt after shooting my third & final man eating Royal Bengal tiger in 1989. During the postmortem, we found that he was suffering from Chrysoma Bezziana. Several maggots which had eaten into his brain (which no doubt drove him towards his homicidal man eating tendencies). I felt pity for the majestic creature, but I never felt any regret for shooting him. Pity should never translate into regret.
If hunting makes you feel even a shred of regret, then hunting is not for you.
Warmest Regards,
Habib
I absolutely love your content. It’s really annoying, but understandably inevitable that your hunting exploits would draw the attention of these keyboard commandoes.
Harassment towards our kind is unfortunately nothing new. When President Theodore Roosevelt was leaving for his African Safari in the early 1900s, thousands of dimwitted protesters were rioting at the docks of New York. In the 1950s, people would write hate mail to “Outdoor Life” insulting any hunter whom the magazine featured in their articles. I am a (semi retired) politician and a former MP (Member Of Parliament). I have been subjected to great slander since the early 1980s. When I was running for MP during my first term, thousands of mindless animal rights activists actually took to the streets in my district… demanding that I be barred from running as an electoral candidate. It didn’t work. I ended up successfully completing two terms in the Parliament and could easily have run for a third. But I stepped down only because I felt wanted to enjoy life. Those activists were a complete non Factor. I published my autobiography two years ago, where I decided to speak back against all of these braindead cultists. The book was very useful in getting my message across to the common masses (who are quite neutral in regards to hunting) in regards to the logical fallacies of animal rights activists. Yes, It did draw attention from more of these low IQ cyber bullies towards me. But I take that in stride. I know that these people hiding behind the safety of a computer screen and writing a bunch of baseless threats & insults… can’t really do anything to me or my loved ones. An Indian You Tube channel made a series of defamatory videos about me (using photographs taken from my autobiography which is for sale to the general public), but I fortunately had them taken down within a week.
That said, while harassment towards our kind is nothing new… the advent of social media platforms has indubitably made it easier for these animal worshipping cultists to target hunters. I have always believed that a smart phone in the wrong hands is far more dangerous than a hand grenade in the right hands. They can use it to spread a great deal of misinformation and outright lies about our kind, which their blind brain dead followers will readily swallow. For example, one anti hunting facebook group has been outright claiming that Mr. Buzz Charlton guided a hunt for a baby elephant. Another facebook group has been claiming that the King of Spain killed pregnant Romanian bears during a hunt. The daughter of a world renowned Botswana based white hunter recently committed suicide due to cyber bullying regarding her father’s hunting exploits.
My advice to you is this: Don’t stop being you. Don’t stop posting amazing You Tube videos or Facebook posts. Sure, you’ll attract hate. But always keep mentioning how sustainable hunting practices do far more for wildlife management than any so called “Animal Rights Activist” ever can. Give figures, provide anecdotes. The antis will obviously still keep hounding you. But they aren’t your target audience. Your target audience is two kinds of people:
1) Fellow hunters
2) The common masses who don’t hunt but aren’t actively out to get hunting banned either
It’s absolutely crucial that your message reaches out to to the latter group. They are the ones whose perception of hunting we seek to mould. The ones we seek to educate.
In regards to whether or not you should smile or not during a hunting photograph, that is totally at your personal discretion. Speaking for myself, hunting makes me extremely happy. I have absolutely zero regret in being a hunter. I know that my actions are having an overall positive effect on wildlife management & ecological balance (provided I hunt responsibly which I certainly hope that all of us are). We humans are key components of nature’s system of checks & balances. We are not mere spectators. I also know that I am dispatching my game animals far more cleanly and humanely that the deaths “Sweet Sentient Mother Nature” gives them.
If hunting does not make me happy, then I wouldn’t do it. I would leave it to those who feel happy doing it. Life is far too short to not do what makes you happy. I wouldn’t spend top Dollar and travel with my firearms for thousands of miles to hunt on an African Safari if doing so didn’t make me happy. Let’s forget about Africa for a minute. Let’s talk about hunting in my homeland. I wouldn’t crawl through thousands of yards of dense mangrove bush to hunt an Axis stag if it didn’t make me happy. Just yesterday, I went hunting for red jungle fowl. I didn’t spend seven hours in the humid summer heat walking through thorny bush if doing so didn’t make me happy. So yes, damn right I will be smiling during my hunting photographs. Not a Norman Bates psycho type smile, but a subtle tasteful one which highlights how much I have appreciated the hunt.
Yes, one can feel pity for the life lost. If anybody here has read my autobiography, then you will recall how I felt after shooting my third & final man eating Royal Bengal tiger in 1989. During the postmortem, we found that he was suffering from Chrysoma Bezziana. Several maggots which had eaten into his brain (which no doubt drove him towards his homicidal man eating tendencies). I felt pity for the majestic creature, but I never felt any regret for shooting him. Pity should never translate into regret.
If hunting makes you feel even a shred of regret, then hunting is not for you.
Warmest Regards,
Habib
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