American Game Hunter Kills Giraffe and Sparks Controversy

originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss

originally posted by: intrepid

originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: Edumakated

But a fisherman holding up his catch is ok? A deer hunter posing with a buck ok?

As a hunter myself I can say that doing this is both childish and silly. They might as well curtsy.

Why? They pay a #load to do this. People take photos as mementos.

You are an Eskimo. I knew it!

Just an internet pic. I live only 2 hours from the Falls though.

Or wait, I cant tell your dimensions, are you one of the Little Mushroom People of Nova Scotia?

I AM from NS. BTW you are correct about "mushroom people" there.

originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: JinMI

I hunt with a bow and the whitetails typically aren't to curious.

I have thought about doing this just to give myself some kind of challenge.

Do you find it more challenging to hunt with a bow versus a rifle?

What kind of bow do you use?

Its far more challenging you have to be much closer and therefore much quieter.....

Its a waiting game more than stalking

originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: intrepid

Big difference in a beautiful waterfall and a dead creature wouldn't you agree?

Unless you find dead animals to be beautiful.

No difference if you've spent thousands to have your vacation. THAT was the point I was making.

a reply to: scraedtosleep

Reduced range and knockdown power. However it's warmer (I'm a sissy to the cold). Much more proficiency is needed and upkeep of the skills to be deadly.

I would think so.

I have a Browning tornado.

originally posted by: intrepid

originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: intrepid

Big difference in a beautiful waterfall and a dead creature wouldn't you agree?

Unless you find dead animals to be beautiful.

No difference if you've spent thousands to have your vacation. THAT was the point I was making.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Great! Now I am wondering what giraffe meat tastes like.

a reply to: intrepid

I have had some damn good tasting vegey burgers.

My issue is that when I count the calories and add up the nutritional value of the amount of vegetables I would need to stay healthy , I just can't afford it.

Eating (tasty yes) meat is just cheaper.

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

LMAO, its a waiting game bow hunting north of 210lbs. Smaller guys can generally tend to crouch and creep pretty good with a little practice. Guys like me...too much gravity for the twigs on the ground. A tree stand works well if I have to use a stand for bow, otherwise a ground stand works fine for rifle.

a reply to: highvein

Its decent but you need one of those really long smokers

originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

LMAO, its a waiting game bow hunting north of 210lbs. Smaller guys can generally tend to crouch and creep pretty good with a little practice. Guys like me...too much gravity for the twigs on the ground. A tree stand works well if I have to use a stand for bow, otherwise a ground stand works fine for rifle.

Hell I'm 200 and in good shape.... Hell w all that I'll sit and wait and rattle lol.... Then again I am getting some gray hairs 😂

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

This is gonna turn into hunting techniques w all of us and really piss everyone off

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

So my vine and spear tactic isn't viable?

originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

So my vine and spear tactic isn't viable?

Only if you're wearing the loincloth

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

Noted. Stay tuned for Oct/Nov poses!

a reply to: JinMI

If i ever have free time in my life, i'd love to learn the atlatl. Just so i could know how to use it.

originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
a reply to: JinMI

If i ever have free time in my life, i'd love to learn the atlatl. Just so i could know how to use it.

Well you're a crafty resourceful guy... Be a cool evening project or weekends.... And make some good videos for the survival forums!

a reply to: bigfatfurrytexan

That would be fun indeed.

I wonder how much distance is possible.

originally posted by: highvein
Great! Now I am wondering what giraffe meat tastes like.

It's been fun watching this exchange. But I wanted to chime in about the taste of Giraffe meat. I don't know what it tastes like, but this came to mind when I read your post:

The Humr people of Sudan consume the drink Umm Nyolokh; which is created from the liver and marrow of giraffes. Umm Nyolokh often contains D M T and other psychoactive substances from plants the giraffes eat such as Acacia; and is known to cause hallucinations of giraffes, believed to be the giraffes' ghosts by the Humr.

Wikipedia
So, if you eat a big slab of Giraffe liver, you might hallucinate about the animal running through the grasslands of the Serengeti. That would be a little strange.

Now imagine eating a nice, tender, juicy piece of beef liver and then start hallucinating about the beef's perspective as it walks down the chute to the slaughterhouse. I think that would be disturbing.

-dex

a reply to: Gargoyle91

Really?

Have you ever tried? Tracking/Hunting is an art, and it's not an easy one. Some can make it look easy, but it, most assuredly isn't.

Killing, now? In this context, is easy. But don't confuse the two. They aren't the same.

a reply to: ManBehindTheMask

Comes elk hunting sometime for a week in idaho w me, and that's after I've scouted for months beforehand

...and get skunked. God, that's happened so often to me, over the years. Oddly enough, I have better success when I don't scout the area before hand... I just go out and hunt.

Elk in the Oregon Blues. White Tail deer, just about everywhere.

White tail deer being the poster child of what over the top control of hunting does, after, of course, removing it's natural predators--cougars and wolves.