Black Rhino Hunt

[Roamy]

A North Texas man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino said he's had to hire full-time security due to death threats after his name was leaked onto the Internet.

I think it would be cool to get a bunch of snipers together and see if they can get a kill shot on him in 3 miles. !!!! Set the Record!

[Spafranco]

A North Texas man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino said he's had to hire full-time security due to death threats after his name was leaked onto the Internet.

I think it would be cool to get a bunch of snipers together and see if they can get a kill shot on him in 3 miles. !!!! Set the Record!
I agree. Takes some shooting skills to shoot a Rhino since they are usually grazing and not chasing after idiotic humans who try to get too close.
Reminds me of "you couldn't hit a barn door".

[Starter]

A North Texas man who paid $350,000 for the right to hunt an endangered African black rhino said he's had to hire full-time security due to death threats after his name was leaked onto the Internet.

I think it would be cool to get a bunch of snipers together and see if they can get a kill shot on him in 3 miles. !!!! Set the Record!
There should be severe punishment for anyone caught killing off protected species for any reason. Whether for sport, (supposed) medicine or trophies, those animals, once gone, aren't coming back. The poachers on the other hand are pretty plentiful and the world won't miss a few of them.

[D-Type]

I totally agree.

There was some country who tried a "Shoot poachers on sight" policy. It woked - but the human rights lobby put an end to it.

But, in fairness, if you are living at subsistence level, poaching offers a better income than scratching a living on marginal farming land.

[odykas]

I hope all he gets is rhino's horn up his a$$

[Bagwan]

Arm the rhinos .

Actually , just thinking about it , you could .
With a tracking device on the animal , would it be a good use of some kind of drone circling overhead , ready to either alert authorities , photograph the perpetrators , or even deal with potential poachers right at that moment from afar ?

[Tazio]

I think it would be acceptable to kill a Black Rhino if.................you somehow got stuck in an African environment with no electronic communication devices, you were starving to death, and without any other food source.
However you could only use weapons that you fashioned from the environment and shaped with nothing more than a sharp rock. :alien:

[anfield5]

He's from Texas, probably doesn't know what a Rhino is. Are we sure he isn't expecting to hunt a wino?

[Tazio]

He's from Texas, probably doesn't know what a Rhino is. Are we sure he isn't expecting to hunt a wino?
You obviously don't understand that there is a huge industry of hunting exotics in Texas. These guys pay big dinero to hunt at some of the places, and they are damn serious about this "recreation" and that perplexes me. Then again if you are absurdly rich and enjoy killing exotics on private property than all you have to do is check out the options you can find on following link:
https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exoti ... s+in+texas (https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exotic+animals+in+texas)
http://www.texasexotichunting.net/africangame.html

[donKey jote]

:crazy: :dozey:

[anfield5]

He's from Texas, probably doesn't know what a Rhino is. Are we sure he isn't expecting to hunt a wino?
You obviously don't understand that there is a huge industry of hunting exotics in Texas. These guys pay big dinero to hunt at some of the places, and they are damn serious about this "recreation" and that perplexes me. Then again if you are absurdly rich and enjoy killing exotics on private property than all you have to do is check out the options you can find on following link:
https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exoti ... s+in+texas (https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exotic+animals+in+texas)
http://www.texasexotichunting.net/africangame.html

Quite to the contrary I do understand this, my comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. :)

[Tazio]

He's from Texas, probably doesn't know what a Rhino is. Are we sure he isn't expecting to hunt a wino?
You obviously don't understand that there is a huge industry of hunting exotics in Texas. These guys pay big dinero to hunt at some of the places, and they are damn serious about this "recreation" and that perplexes me. Then again if you are absurdly rich and enjoy killing exotics on private property than all you have to do is check out the options you can find on following link:
https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exoti ... s+in+texas (https://www.google.com/#q=hunting+exotic+animals+in+texas)
http://www.texasexotichunting.net/africangame.html

Quite to the contrary I do understand this, my comment was very much tongue-in-cheek. :)

My launguage in response to your comment was a little strong, I apologises about that. As an American I take exception to blanket statements about my countrymen, and although I kow your comment was meant to be funny it implies ignorance of this wild animal by this egotistical jerk, when in fact he probably has studied this "game" quite well and is not ignorant about his quary. No use to makee sport of Texans in a broad sense unless you have an axe to grind with people you don't even know a thing about. This Jerk-off could have come from just about anywhere in the western world.

[D-Type]

Those adverts sicken me. I grew up in Africa and I do understand the need to hunt. In their own environment the genuinely wild animals have a chance when being hunted, but on these so-called 'hunting' ranches they don't. I just don't understand what thrill these "sportsmen" can get from this organised slaughter. Would they get the same satisfaction out of shooting a chained up dog? Or wouldn't that be considered "sporting" - even by their debased standards?

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know what proportion of these "sporting" customers are Americans?

[steveaki13]

I have to agree. I cannot actually understand how killing any animal can be fun or great sport.

I fully understand hunting for food or killing animals to eat. However just to kill things because it'd be fun or look good or your wall.

I mean if its about the thrill, then why not go and see one and get close to it to admire, but to then just blam it.

Sorry don't get it.

[Tazio]

Those adverts sicken me. I grew up in Africa and I do understand the need to hunt. In their own environment the genuinely wild animals have a chance when being hunted, but on these so-called 'hunting' ranches they don't.
Sorry for taking this thread (Hunt) to Texas, the actual hunt is in Nambia
The following link adds some insight to the "whole shooting match", pardon the pun:

Knowlton's supporters: Science backs him up

Knowlton's supporters say this conservation strategy is based in smart science. The International Union for Conservation of Nature supported the Dallas Safari Club's black rhino hunting permit auction.

The union says its mission is to work with governments and conservation groups around the world to find "practical solutions" to conservation efforts around the world.

It also says "trophy hunting is a fundamental pillar of Namibia's conservation approach and instrumental in its success." And that "well-managed recreational hunting and trophy hunting" have had a positive impact in "stimulating population increases for rhino

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/us/black- ... ng-permit/ (http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/16/us/black-rhino-hunting-permit/)
Personally I would still rather see nature just take its course, unfortunately there is the issue of poachers not taking a scientific approach of culling, and just killing targets of opportunity.