re: Outrage alert: White woman hunts a giraffe in Africa, so you know what happens next

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Spoken just like someone who has never been hunting in S Africa. That 50K buys you a lot more than just the opportunity to pull the trigger. That is all inclusive, everything, flights, meals, lodging, sight seeing, safari. Plus the opportunity to hunt with and watch native hunter/trackers who were directly descended from the first hunters ever! It's a chance to experience the local villages and see how those people live, learn their customs and dine with them on their food. But go right ahead and consider the ONLY reason anyone would travel to S Africa would be to "pull the trigger."

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This has to be sarcastic, right?

If not, you're kidding yourself if you don't think pulling the trigger is, by far, the main attraction.

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This has to be sarcastic, right?

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Unlike you, I've actually been there and pulled the trigger. I can honestly tell you that killing the animal was the least important part of that trip for me.

ETA - Frick it, kill everything.

Why the hell is this still going? Do we actually have some dipshits on here against this?

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If not, you're kidding yourself if you don't think pulling the trigger is, by far, the main attraction.

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They are hunters, so yes, they arranged these trips because of the hunt. If you care about these animals so much, start spending money like these hunters to keep these villages from murdering off what they view as pests. However having lots of friends do these trips, they love the fact they get wined and dined on them. They are treated like royalty and it's as much a part of the experience as the actual hunt.

Right now, hunters are spending damn good money, to be wined and dined and then kill off the pests the villagers want nothing to do with on what could be their farm land. Instead they make a frick ton of cash to do nothing but keep some animals alive for other people to kill.

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This giraffe needed to be put down, so Talley paid thousands of dollars for the privilege to pull the trigger.

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Win win if the country properly manages this.

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Is there really any doubt these people are egomaniacs?

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I really don't know if that is true. I have a friend who owns a couple of successful businesses who does this sort of thing. He has gone on a Rhino hunt though one of the the large African refuges. Paid For the privilege to be the person to cull an older declining animal. While he is somewhat of a type A personality, he is not really an egomaniac. I do suspect many are, though.

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Don't kid yourself.

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Pulling the trigger was secondary for me. So much so that subsequent trips I didn't even hunt. I paid to go be a part of the hunt, take photographs and be in camp.

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Outrage alert: White woman hunts a giraffe in Africa, so you know what happens next
Have you been over there?

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Many times.

LINK

Here is a really well sourced article about the negative effects of the hunting ban in Botswana in 2014

*no one is going to read this

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Great. That's you. You spoke as if that is true of everyone.

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Cowboy, I will say that the largest number of people I've been there with definitely had a "change of heart" after their first trip. It's not uncommon to hear hunters say......I just want to go back. Could care less if I actually hunt. If it's your thing, if hunting, tracking, camp life, camp fires, wildlife, seeing new cultures is your thing........it's hard to beat Africa.

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Do you get a discount if you're not the one who takes the shot?

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Certainly the trip doesn't cost as much if you're not actually hunting. Those animals all have a price on them, ranging from $200 - $200,000.