Yes, I am dropping a hand grenade here, but this article in Hard Air Magazine about a so called “world record” flared me up.
https://hardairmagazine.com/news/pending-world-record-aoudad-taken-with-umarex-hammer-in-south-texas/
Also, for full disclosure I am more of a small game hunter, not big game which may change one day, but for now it is who I am.
Okay I grew up in the mountains of Idaho around limitless public land in a state where “fair chase” when hunting is taking seriously, and pretty much the law. So when I see the hunting on game farms, particular exotic species, to me it is kind of a joke because the animal can only go so far before it hits a fence aka cornered. So I will never call this fair chance, thus I consider the effort not much of effort compared to the same pursuit in the real wilds.
What I mean from above for example. I know someone who spent close to a week and countless miles WALKING, stalking a Rocky Mountain sheep ram in the Frank Church Wilderness area in Central Idaho. For those who don’t know, when a area is classified as wilderness in the United States no motorized or wheeled vehicle can be used, yes even a bicycle, so you are walking or on horseback. Central Idaho is as hilly and rugged as it comes, no cellphone service, no creature comforts, no etc, so no hunting lodge to go back to after a day in the mountains. In this region your hunting lodge is your tent and the ground it sits on. People who can handle and thrive in these conditions are true top tier hunters, who can’t, aren’t! Hunters who thrive in these conditions and succeed are the best of the best.
So when I see this praising article with this smiling person and world record hunting on a game farm in South Texas, I roll my eyes. I can’t consider an animal hunted on a game farm, regardless, as fair chance which should be considered a world record. Sorry with the way they hunt in Texas and all that is legal I kind of consider it a video game aka a joke.
https://hardairmagazine.com/news/pending-world-record-aoudad-taken-with-umarex-hammer-in-south-texas/
Also, for full disclosure I am more of a small game hunter, not big game which may change one day, but for now it is who I am.
Okay I grew up in the mountains of Idaho around limitless public land in a state where “fair chase” when hunting is taking seriously, and pretty much the law. So when I see the hunting on game farms, particular exotic species, to me it is kind of a joke because the animal can only go so far before it hits a fence aka cornered. So I will never call this fair chance, thus I consider the effort not much of effort compared to the same pursuit in the real wilds.
What I mean from above for example. I know someone who spent close to a week and countless miles WALKING, stalking a Rocky Mountain sheep ram in the Frank Church Wilderness area in Central Idaho. For those who don’t know, when a area is classified as wilderness in the United States no motorized or wheeled vehicle can be used, yes even a bicycle, so you are walking or on horseback. Central Idaho is as hilly and rugged as it comes, no cellphone service, no creature comforts, no etc, so no hunting lodge to go back to after a day in the mountains. In this region your hunting lodge is your tent and the ground it sits on. People who can handle and thrive in these conditions are true top tier hunters, who can’t, aren’t! Hunters who thrive in these conditions and succeed are the best of the best.
So when I see this praising article with this smiling person and world record hunting on a game farm in South Texas, I roll my eyes. I can’t consider an animal hunted on a game farm, regardless, as fair chance which should be considered a world record. Sorry with the way they hunt in Texas and all that is legal I kind of consider it a video game aka a joke.
