re: Idaho Fish and Game commissioner resigns amid backlash over African hunting picture

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If he could have killed 100 baboons in one day he would have

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What’s wrong with this assuming it’s legal?

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Giraffes I do not get.

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They are extremely dangerous and old non breeding males will kill younger breeding males essentially for shits and giggles.

If it’s legal who cares if he wipes out 5 “families”?

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If it’s legal who cares if he wipes out 5 “families”?

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I'm gonna legally kill the mother of a deer family on Saturday. Maybe the father too. Take out both parents. Gonna have orphans running around the woods crying about losing mommy and daddy.

No. That's not what happens here, and that's not what happens in Africa. Hell, in Africa there aren't many primates of any .... nevermind. Not gonna get banned.

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vilify him as someone who destroyed a "family" is inappropriate

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No one vilified him by using that word, that's the word he used, and that more or less explains why he's out of the job. He called it a "family" of baboons because he thought that sounded more awesome. This is less about him shooting them, and more about him being a jackass while holding office, as you pointed out.

The difference between the yote and the dog is that dogs are pets, yotes are a wild animal that will kill and eat your “pet” at every given opportunity. Also your pet doesn’t run around the woods killing and eating up to 2/3rds of any given fawn population on a yearly basis, as well as turkey’s , their poults and eggs.

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. He should have known that these pictures would go public given he sent the email to 100 or more, BUT, they were sent in a private (not really any such thing) email and not posted publicly. Though he might have expected some confidentiality he should have known better. 2. As someone who has killed more than a few coyotes, beavers, nutria, armadillos, hogs and other nuisance critters and varmints; I can tell you that its not practical or reasonable to expect or demand that every animal killed be eaten. That doesn't mean they aren't to be dispatched cleanly and treated respectfully, but eating isn't the only legitimate reason to kill an animal. Conclusion: From what I understand, baboons can be a huge nuisance and perhaps a threat. I have no problem with him knocking them off if so. Posing with them as a family and sharing them was a bad idea, especially for primates. He should have known better.

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Concur 100%

As to another poster, giraffe are excellent eating. Had it twice in Kenya and was delicious both times.
A female hunter caught crap for killing one not too long ago. The story behind it made it a good kill. The giraffe she killed was an old alpha giraffe that had been killing younger males. He was no longer able to breed and was killing the future gene sharing of the giraffe herd in that area by erasing all the younger males. So biologically and ethically her kill was in the best interset of tge herds future survival.

With regards to the OP, the hunter in that story showed a pathetic disregard for his prey by posing the “family” for the picture.
The fact that he was the head cheese for Idaho FnG made it all the more incredulous that he thought it was ok.

Two types of people in the outdoors, hunters and “killers”. He was the second type, and thats NOT a good thing.
Serves the prick right to lose his job when his job directly correlates with helping the non-hunting crowd understand the necessity of hunting (not killing)

From the article I read (not the one linked) his firing had more to do with the captions than the pictures

What I have a problem with is that that is definitely not a crossbow in the picture as stated in the article; definitely looks like a recurve. Damn a-hole liberal news media, get your facts straight.
Oh, and as long as the meat doesn’t go to waste, who cares..

There’s some weird frickers in this thread. Those of y’all into killing monkeys and giraffes should move to Africa. Here in America we kill normal shite like deer and ducks.

To each his own but that’s pretty weird to get excited about killing monkeys and giraffes.