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There is no good reason for objecting to shooting large game but not the snake in your backyard. So a given creature is endangered, so what? 99.9% of the species which have ever existed are extinct, as will we be someday.

Agreed.

And I don't kill snakes either ... not even rattlers, unless they refuse to leave the area or are too close to the dogs and kids.

I've had too many close calls where snakes could have bitten me, in the face for that matter, and they didn't. I owe them the favor in return.

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There should be a worldwide ban on trophy hunting and whaling IMHO.

Elephants, ... all African big game mammals for that matter.

One of the biggest big game hunters in the world lives just across the lake from me. He's in the car wash business believe it or not. He's always on the TV hunting shows killing something with a Jarrett Rifle ( Jarrett Rifles), which are made a couple of miles from here. He's a little-dick midget who does it to make himself feel like a big man. A punk.

And whaling should be outlawed. Whaling is criminal IMHO.

If I hunt it, I'm gonna eat it and thank the animal for what he gives us in the process. I taught my kids that way and they'll teach their kids that way.

Bears should be left the frick alone too. Unless they are nussance bears , which are usually made so because of our trash and encroaching ....there is no need to hunt bears.

I'm pro hunting. Whitetail, Mulies, Elk, Moose, Caribou, I've hunted them all. Squirrels, rabbits, ducks, quail ... I quit killing doves because it got too easy. I even downed a buffalo, killed him dead, from 400 meters with a Marlin 1895 in 45/70 one time, with a pill I cast myself, and loaded. It wasn't an easy shot and it wasn't an easy stalk ... it took some skill. That hide is a prize thing for me ... and we've still got buffalo in the freezer. Best meat ever - except for moose and maybe elk. I like caribou too.

Just killed some coyotes the other night. Killed a big pig a couple of weeks ago and fed him to the dogs. The pigs and the yotes are getting out of hand.

But killing for trophies is wrong IMHO. Screw the African economy argument.

I'd be all for hunting assholes though. Big game trophy hunters ... they are assholes.