ORIGINAL: Monie
This topic has created a double edged sword, of sorts,for a lot of us:
1) Most hunters do not condone this type of hunt and bash the people who do.
2) By bashing these hunters publicly, it gives fuel, to the anti-hunting movement's, fire. Once they successfully eliminate one type of hunting (canned hunts),they will surely go after another.
3) By allowing the "canned" hunts, this too adds fuel to the anti's fire.
We need to stop sqabbling amongst ourselves and support each other. There is no other way to defeat the anti's. I don't think canned hunts are right, but that is my opinion.I WILL, however,support the decision of those who do.
Bottom line, if we let the anti's get an even bigger foot hold than what they already have, we're up Schnit's Creek without a paddle!!
With all due respect Monie, I think that it is Hunters that should actually lead the way to oust ALL Canned hunting operations in North America (I don't care what happens in Africa, etc, because we don't make the rules there) If we strive to regulate our own, then we could beat peta, et al, to the punch and show the general public that we as a group are for ethical methods of hunting.
Bison hunting is different and is not commercialized in the same fashion that these "trophy canned hunts" are. Everyone knows that 99% of Bison hunts are just getting a bunch of meat and getting to shoot your gun at the same time at something about as domestic as a cow(then get the guy with the tractor to come and take it to the barn for ya). Exotics behind a fence in North America should be able to be hunted as well. Those are the exceptions and I know that some will say "well you make an exception for this but not for that"................If they are anative wild speciesof North America, then theyshould not be able to be "hunted"behind a high fenceperiod, IMHO.