Dear Good Fellows,
I apologize to the OP and all others for derailing this thread.
At the end of the day, regardless of hunting elephant cow or bull, deer buck or doe, etc., I believe the haters will hate.
They are bullies and inflicting pain is what bullies love, in this case it is psychological and intellectual pain.
Bullies hate their victims for fighting back and they hate their victims for not fighting back.
The anti-hunters are from my observations, pretty much 100% not the type of people that anyone can reason with.
It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing.
You’ll just wear yourself out and it annoys the pig.
Much of the general public are not haters but easily led for sure.
And I estimate that, many if not most, don’t care wether we bag a cow elephant or a bull elephant.
What sways them is the screeching anti-hunters telling the average masses their passionate lies, such as, “Elephant numbers (or name your species) are dropping fast, due to hunting and elephants are in danger of becoming extinct, if we don’t stop the hunting of them”.
Average people are usually not malicious but they are for sure easily influenced.
And they tend to shy away from our hunting culture when we crow about our “trophy hunting” / “my horns measured whatever inches” / “I shot a gold medal something or another”, “I got a trophy whatever animal into the record book” and all that.
Plus, I agree with those who say we should not be delivering ammunition to our tormentors by posting pictures of our memories in certain open public web sites, such as Face Book and their ilk.
This is especially true if when the general public reads about our critter/s being a huge “trophy”, with whatever inches and / or whatever “score” the horns measured up to and so forth.
The times they are a-changin’.
And IMO, if one must launch their dead critter photos straight at the unwashed masses, it might be a good idea to post how we prefer the preparation of same for eating, favorite game recipe/s and such likes.
We are totally loosing the “information war” but, we don’t have to loose it.
We evidently just choose to loose it I guess.
Tuskless elephant hunt ?
I am envious of all those who are blessed with such a grand time in the African bush, carrying and using a large bore rifle for what they were designed and all the rest that goes with elephant hunting.
Cheers,
Velo Dog.
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