Jimmy John AZ Bull
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tim
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When I was young, the hunters with all the money used to go to Africa. I remember see all the movie actors and celebs with their pictures with Roy Weatherby or some prince with all their trophies. Now lots of them are staying home. What concerns me is that all the money spent on these tags is really causing the general public to think all hunters are interested in is "horns".
JimP
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It's a dam if you do and dam if you don't.
People don't realize just what that money that was spent at the auction will go a long ways in helping the animals where it isn't coming out of the Departments budget.
Africa is the same way. People just see us over there hunting for the trophies, they don't realize where all the meat goes and that us here in the US are not allowed to bring any of the meat home. I have a good friend in Idaho who started to ask me question about the last hunt that I did in South Africa a few years ago, she had no idea of what was involved and where all the meat went. She was under the impression that we shot a animal and just took the horns. She didn't realize that in a number of cases that the meat is donated one way or another to the local people who are very grateful for us stupid Americans who come over to their land to shoot something.
But in Africa there is also a problem that if a animal isn't providing something to the locals that then that animal isn't worth anything and needs to go. Lions and elephants are a prime example. Lions will prey on the farmers cattle and other livestock, if they don't get a benefit from the lions then they will be killed on sight along with the elephants that raid the farmers fields to find something good to eat. Once again if they are not benefiting from the animal the animal needs to go.
A friend from Utah is over in Kenya right now and he is amazed at all the animals in the National Parks and hasn't seen a thing other than monkeys outside of the parks. But then Kenya outlawed hunting way back in 1977 and the locals took care of what animals were wandering around outside of the parks.
tim
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Personally i think it is awesome, how some one with a small loan from his dad, created a net worth of 2 billion. Total rags to riches story about a guy who just flat out worked his ass off to start his company.
