Dude ... it's all good ....I loves ya lots! No Bashing ....

No real desire for me to arrow a giraffe, but thats just me, for me I think there's plenty of big game to hunt in North America...but like one said whatever floats your boat. My eyes are dead set on brown bear, so everyone has their dream game in mind whether it be Africa or Canada or Alaska.

If you hunt giraffes you don't need a tree stand you need a stepladder

I saw the show you guys are refering to. It was cool how they were looking for blood 6-8 ft. up on the trees.

The tanned hide would be quite a conversation piece.

x2 man you said it it is pure trophy hunting because he has the money and he wants to do it,I would'nt want to do it and don't agree with it but hey to everyone his own.that is what is so great about our country.I will respect his way of hunting as long as he respects mine.

ya it could feed a hole village so theres both ways tyo look at it

I hope this helps to put things into perspective. Here's a little twist that might help you understand the whole process.

In Africa, 10% of the population have jobs. That 10% works for about $30 US dollars per month. A giraffe (as part of a conservation effort) brings in about $3500-$4500. That's a month's salary for 35-45 individuals. Let say those individuals areAK-47 totingmembers of an anti-poaching organization. Seems the governments there cannot collect enough taxes to pay for these blokes for their dedicated service. Hmmm... the money has to come from somewhere, right?The governmentsdo not sell enough resident and non-resident hunting licenses to provide the funds. Nor, do they collect enough excise tax on sporting equipment and ammunition to adequately provide for the wildlife and those that protect it. Heck,Most governments, within Africa,barely make ends meet feeding their citizens.

It's easy fora man can become an internationalhunter and a conservationist within the same moment (a "win-win" situation 99% of the time). Without such individuals....God help us!

Va,"giving" in Africa is as important as "taking". Sometimes, that's all you really need to know. Me personally...I would take a giraffe if there wasn't anything else to give. By the way, they are far from being endangered and can be a real pain in the arse!They are one of the preferred foods of lions...

Legal and tasty! Who am I to judge!

I found out that they hunt camels in Australia. Anybody ever tried camel backstraps?

Nothing silly about it. If it wasn't for hunters, iust like here there would most likely be little to nothing of much in Africa.

The one my sister inlaw took was use to feed the captive lions they had. 1 Every 3 days is needed. She's getting a neck up mount done and the hide will be used for other things. I think they were having some stools made of the feet from a bull elephant my brother took (how do you feel about ivory ). The giraff hide will be the seat part. She also took a zebra and their having a rug made out of it.

It's one thing to not understand something, it's another thing entirely speak against it. I know some people who are against hunting and your opening statement was almost word for word with what they've said. One of them actually prayed God would surround the giraffs so that my sister inlaw would miss.God must be a hunter aye!

Perhaps they did. Apparently there were not large numbers of hunters there to stand up and call bs on this deal. I don't quite see that as being a problem in the States. Where I come from we are the majority and most people only talk about the anti groups when they are doing something stupid for media attention. I've hinted at it in the past and I'll bluntly state it now: I could give less than 1/2 a crap what an anti thinks, I will not live in fear of them or worry about them. You can if you want to, I just won't do it. We are in the right and all of the stats, facts, information, etc back us up, besides that are numbers are greater.

Many people on here are correct in statingpeople hunt for different reasons. You may want to hunt for rhinos in Africa and I may hunt turkeys in VA. Just because I do not have any urge to hunt rhinos or giraffes or whatever does not mean I oppose you itmight justI can't relate to it, I don't have the urge to do it, it's not somthing I have been exposed to, or it just seems odd to me. No big deal the antis didn't recruit me I just don't get it.You can explain it to me and I might say ok, but that doesn't mean I view it any differently, I don't like baiting, I don't like high fences, I don't want to do exotic foreign country hunting for a trophy. None of those are my thing, maybe they are yours, good luck with them, I honestly don't think VA was bashing it just stating that he didn't see the point, and I would have to agree with him somewhat.

What's more important is that what we think doesn't amount to much, just our back-woods VA opinions based on our exposure to hunting. It doesn't mean we want to ban giraffe hunting, we just think giraffes are goofy.

Especially that one at Toys-R-Us, what a dork he is, now that I think about it, I'd shoot him.