Reply #30: Agreed! This is not a sport, it's more like "leisure activity"

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These F_____G canned hunts are pure bullshit. When I started hunting whitetail deer many years ago, the point was to match wits with your game. And to get out of the house for some beer and poker.

To fill your tag you had to employ stealth, knowledge, and a little luck.

I have a seriously hard time with canned hunts, to me they are the ultimate example in lack of sportsmanship. Shoot and animal in a fenced reserve. Gee, what a challenge! It is likely that the animal will not even be butchered for the meat. Instead the head and cape will head right for the
taxidermist. Somehow, I find it wasteful.

Hunting and edangered animal? I kind of have a hard time with those who try to make an argument that this form of hunting can preserve endangered species. Protect and animal from the wild so you can kill it captively. IT does not make sense.

I had said to other hunters, if I had a chance to hunt any animal on earth, money no object, it would be the Cape Buffalo of Africa. It is not endangered. Meat could be given away as food. And it is dangerous game, a hunter would need some smarts to take one of these animals. They could wind up getting killed otherwise.