I am with the traditionalists on this. Raising animals on game farms for canned hunts is questionable, but it should not be a basis of a world record. I know there are ranches in Texas and elsewhere where the animals are given huge areas to roam and are kept in a wild state (so I am not denouncing all game farms, just the unsporting ones). Game farms help maintain habitat for other animals and by monetizing wildlife management can be generally good for wildlife.
Released game farm bred animals should not, however, be the basis of a Boone and Crockett or state record listing.
...Broussard returned to the stand ... she played on her cell phone to keep her awake and occupied, but decided to get serious at about 8:30 a.m. ...
ReplyDelete“It wasn’t 10 minutes later, he comes running out to my right … and he ran between me and the feeder, and I shot him when he was running, ...”
Translation: Great white hunter chick, sitting on her ass in a stand, shoots deer as it passes between the stand and a feeder. This rather trashes the term "hunting" beyond absurdity. SPIT! GAG!
Bow hunting requires stealth and ambush. I am not big on baiting, but it is allowed in a lot of states. This was a deer that thought of humans as the creatures that brought him food, so it is not surprising he went for the feeder like that.
DeleteBut at least that still requires being quiet and ready for the deer. And getting off an accurate bow shot. What galls me is game farms where animals are basically shot in a pen for a faux trophy. That is like a guy bragging about a girl friend who is really a paid professional solicited from the back page of one of those free weekly papers.
EBL ... read the article again. Little Miss Twit shot the deer with a 7 mm Magnum rifle at a range of between 2 feet and 75 feet maximum. I can only image the exit wound blowout destruction of meat that would cause. "Quiet and ready" .... playing with a cell phone until 10 minutes before the semi-tame deer stumbled past. As I said...SPIT!
DeleteFor the record, legal or not, baiting deer, nor tree stands, are not "hunting." I know guys who shoot them on their front lawns, over salt licks, from their bedrooms and think they're big deals. One of these days maybe I'll hide in their yard and shoot back...see how they like chicken-shit shooting.
BTW...I grew up hunting...until I came back from the Asian war games. Nothing compares, so I no longer do it. I respect those who hunt and eat what they shoot, legally, and not from tree stands or over feed of any kind. This young lady does not qualify. Sorry. I'm a prick on things like this.
Fair enough, the article started off with her about bow shooting. 7mm for a white tail? That is appropriate for a bull elk (and even then it is over kill).
DeleteI do not mind if someone humanely culls deer for meat (there are way too many of them out there and leaving them to starvation and road kill is not humane either). So I am not particularly worked up by salt licks and feed stations to keep the numbers down. But I do not look at it as sport hunting, anymore than shooting a pig in a pen counts as hunting.