The Great White Hunter

[RancidSumo]

What a sad video. How does a guy like that end up in charge of anything firearms-related?

[Joe in PNG]

What a sad video. How does a guy like that end up in charge of anything firearms-related?

Sadly, people with absolutely no knowledge of the business they're in all too often tend to wind up as heads of companies and other large organizations- or governments.

[JHC]

I've only hunted in Africa twice, but I've noticed nothing goes to waste. Everything is eaten. One story: I took a hippo and used some of its meat as bait to get a crocodile. We cut a chunk of it an chained it to a spike by the river. I guess the crocs were on break because we saw no activity. We decided to break for lunch and my PH (professional hunter) went towards the spike to get the bait. I asked why and he said if we left it there, the locals would come and take it off the spike to eat themselves. No kidding! That hippo was delicious and probably the best meat I tasted on that hunt. I cannot afford to hunt an ele but I suspect it would feed the local community for weeks.

Wow that’s neat! Colombia has a growing herd of feral hippos that Pablo Escobar bought as novelty pets or something

[LittleLebowski]

This was so, so horrific and we paid for it.

[Hambo]

Several things struck me about this from a hunting perspective:

• Mr. and Mrs. WLP don't know much about African game and their guides didn't teach them much before they went out. A bit of explanation at the lodge the night before would have eliminated the whispered conversations with a herd of elephants a stone's throw away.
• The senior guide spoke to WLP like he was a child, and one of the other guides took Mrs. WLP's rifle out of her hands immediately after she fired her second shot. I think the guides had realized that these two were a hazard to everyone around them. The word was probably, "Let them kill stuff but disarm them immediately afterward so they don't shoot anyone."
• WLP crumbled under stress. Marksmanship aside, he had no idea how to handle his rifle. With a wounded elephant just feet away, he had to be reminded to run the bolt after firing, and he fumbled at everything he did. His wife did a better job but was still pretty weak.
• Everything said to WLP after the elephant died was a lie--the congratulations, inflating the deed, the prowess involved--it was all to soothe his ego.
• The guides looked deeply relaxed once the shooting stopped. The senior guide unloaded his double rifle and put the cartridges in his pocket as soon as the second elephant was done, almost as if he knew there was no other risk from any other animal. I'm not sure, but I'd bet a round of drinks that WLP was on a canned hunt.

There's also the fact that this hunt probably cost rank-and-file NRA members something like $200k, but that's another thread.


Okie John

I'll go with canned hunt and PH provided rifles for $200K, Alex.

[BigT]

I've only hunted in Africa twice, but I've noticed nothing goes to waste. Everything is eaten. One story: I took a hippo and used some of its meat as bait to get a crocodile. We cut a chunk of it an chained it to a spike by the river. I guess the crocs were on break because we saw no activity. We decided to break for lunch and my PH (professional hunter) went towards the spike to get the bait. I asked why and he said if we left it there, the locals would come and take it off the spike to eat themselves. No kidding! That hippo was delicious and probably the best meat I tasted on that hunt. I cannot afford to hunt an ele but I suspect it would feed the local community for weeks.

Hippo is bloody tasty


And yeah whatever you shoot will get eaten, in its entirety, a lot of people get a big chunk of their protein from these hunts.

[LittleLebowski]

We need LTC Allen West to replace WLP so badly.

[Hot Sauce]

We need practically anyone who isn't a corrupt walking-talking blunder to replace WLP so badly.

FIFY

[Glenn E. Meyer]

Saw the story in my news feed from https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...-elephant-hunt

Just what the RKBA needs.

[Zincwarrior]

Wow that’s neat! Colombia has a growing herd of feral hippos that Pablo Escobar bought as novelty pets or something

Yes he had a private herd of them. They were abandoned when Escobar was hunted down, and turns out they love it there.
Evidently they are becoming a major nuisance and have expanded into major rivers there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-56011594