Sweet Suffering Mother of... look at the hunting Photos

[Kelly Ripa]

The Elk is a freak....I think he was able to shoot'm cause it could'nt raise it's head up because of the 400 pounds of horns on it's head. Congratulations Buddy, I'm sure that it was worth the serious effort. WOW

[Ron C]

Is that yours Gator? I hope you have a super-duper double reinforced wall to hang that thing! DAMN! I can't EVEN imagine packing that thing out. What a beauty!

http://www.westernbass.com/dotcom/photo ... .html?id=2

[Ron C]

...this according to snopes.com:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/bigelk.asp

Still a good 'un!

[scottsweet]

Man...guys..I just don't understand why this is a good or wonderful thing? This is a beautiful animal shot on a farm....

I guess I just don't appreciate hunting...

[Gator]

Not mine - and I didn't check it out on Snopes. One of my hunting buddies sent it to me. Thought it would be a good start to the hunting photos. Kinda dwarfs my little buck from Florida

[Lance]

Scott
Whats not to understand? Havent you ever seen those hunting shows where the guy is showing off his newly bagged trophey to the camera, that "beautiful" buck or that "beautiful" Moose, its very manly stuff. I cant understand why you dont see this as the perfect game of cat and mouse, the hunter and the hunted, the I.Q., agility and the weapon of a human matched perfectly to the I.Q. of a slow moving, grazing, Elk. Common Scott, let me spell it out for ya, if its "beautiful" alive it must be more "beautiful" dead.

[fishinman]

I. Q. Huh!!! I quess all beautiful people should be shot and killed and hung on somebodys wall so they are more beautiful to appreciate and look at. Your words probly don't match acually what your trying to express to Scott. Some people might take what you replied in the wrong context, just like my message, a tad bit on the aggresive side! I respect men who enjoy the hunt and bagging of a trophy but personally I have no desire to kill bambi since I already did that when I was 13 years old in the winter up in the catskill mountains with my dad. I had a dog when I was young that died of a heart attack and watching bambi die after I shot him (yeah I know Bambi's a female) was quite similar and tramatic for me so I never did it again.

[tunaman]

I'm pretty sure KOA was being sarcastic... sounds like you're both on the same page.

[Lil T]

I need to preface what I am about to say with the disclaimer: I come from a family of hunters, so I am not against hunting. At least for subsistence or game management (since we have stupidly wiped out most of our large predators with civilization), and within those boundaries, hunting to recapture the sense of our own wildness, the instincts developed from an earlier time when hunting meant food. What I don't get is trophy hunting. Killing something and feeling good about it because it is an outstanding speciman. Huge and healthy and magnificent. If the animal is outstanding, wouldn't you want it to remain alive to breed more outstanding creatures? And no, I am not a vegan. I like beef, chicken and yes even venison. Again, I am not against raising animals for food or hunting them for food (with proper controls to protect the resource.) But that's what I like about you bass guys. The fact that you hunt the elusive big bass, and after you capture and admire her, you release her so she can grow even more amazing and share her genes to keep your hunt alive and her species intact. Trophy hunting, on a farm no less, isn't sport to me. It's just killing for the sake of killing and getting your picture with something dead. It's not like you conquered something that was endangering you or yours and ignited your warrior spirit. You go to the creatures home turf, then sneak up on it and kill it when it isn't looking. Not exactly a battle of wits. Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox now. And Koa was being sarcastic, btw.