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The breeding of wildlife to produce unusually coloured animals, in the hope that hunters would pay a lot more to shoot them, has fallen flat in a spectacular manner — with the practice being widely condemned AMEN http://www.businesslive.co.za/...colour-game-is-over/ | ||
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The whole idea was so stupid it defies comprehension! I appreciate captive breeding, of any animal, but to start mixing and colouring has gone too far in South Africa. | |||
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. And I was saving up my money for a blue wildebeest !  . "Up the ladders and down the snakes!" | |||
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Good news are rare in the hunting world -this is one. | |||
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I wanted a lion with blue eyes. Maybe that won't be an option in the future. | |||
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I agree 100%. I know little about this but I believe it was, and correct me if I am wrong, a Copper Spring buck being advertised for $10K?? Maybe I am wrong.... | |||
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Geeee the animal auctions won't be nearly as fun now.  ___________________ Just Remember, We ALL Told You So. | |||
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The most interesting thing that I found in that article was: In 2014, the latest year for which data is available, 7,638 foreign hunters came to SA, less than half the best-yet figures of 16,394 in 2006. The big winner is Namibia, a country free of canned hunting and colour variants. “Foreign-hunter numbers to Namibia grew from 6,300 in 2007 to 23,768 in 2014,” says Flack I wouldn't have believed that the RSA numbers for foreign hunters was so low. If someone would have asked me to guess on the number of hunters who went to RSA in 2014 I would have guessed over 25,000. Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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The folks breeding these colorful game animals are in the livestock business similar to the cattle, horses, goats, sheep, and exotic game breeding folks. It seems that their products were not in such demand as to be profitable. I personally do not care if they breed pink hippos, as only natural game is of interest to me. There are multiple game breeding operations within 10 miles of my home and hundreds of them in Texas. Most of their product goes to high fenced properties in the region. This allows Texans a wide range of exotics with very little travel. For instance, in Texas elk are considered exotics and it is fun to be able to shoot cow elk without driving to Colorado. These livestock breeding operations have a large and thriving market in exotic game. You pays your $$ and takes your choice.  NRA Life Benefactor Member, DRSS, DWWC, Whittington Center,Android Reloading Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/ | |||
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I agree with most people that the hunting of captive bred game animals where the animals' genetics are intentionally influenced and manipulated by human intervention to produce "unnatural freaks" and are then kept or turned out for hunting in a confined area (no matter how large the area) is not something I'm interested in doing, so I'm glad to see some of this falling out of favor (maybe). But that's just my opinion based on my personal standards. I would never impose my standards on someone else or condemn them for not following my standards. If it's legal, fine; beyond that it's up to each person's personal ethics (even if it seems stupid, ill advised or unsporting to me). However, I do have a difficult time distinguishing between pink wildebeest and totally "unnatural [antler] freaks" in the whitetail deer livestock business (I call it livestock because that's what I believe it to be) where genetics are so often influence and manipulated, along with environmental conditions, for the sole purpose of producing genetic freaks when it comes to antlers. For the most part, you can take just about every reference to an animal in the linked article and more or less substitute "whitetail deer" in its place. I'm sure this thread could go on for pages and pages with the pros and cons of the captive whitetail industry (or elk or whatever) and I don't disparage either side (in fact, it's industry; obviously a very successful industry in many parts of the USA), but it seems a little disingenuous for me to complain about genetically modified colors in a foreign country and not mention genetically modified antlers that are so prevalent in my own back yard. | |||
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Damn, I was hoping to shoot both the pink and white elephants. | |||
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Unfortunately, IMHO, as long as there are record book categories for variants, there will be someone who wants to see his/her name in print. It doesn't matter that it is "widely condemned." The article cited has problems. For example, few Americans who make up the bulk of foreign hunters in South Africa have ever heard of the CIC, and of those who have, even fewer care what that organization says. If auction prices have fallen over the years, it's because the South African game farms that offer "hunts" for them now have their own breeding stock. Bill Quimby | |||
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I believe that to be the case myself. Look at the prices of South African Sable for instance?? Some people are really gonna get hurt when the saturation point is reached in clean buffalo! . | |||
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No different than those that invested in ostriches, alpacas or emus in America when things got crazy. | |||
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BWW said "No different than those that invested in ostriches, alpacas or emus in America when things got crazy." Agreed. When the ostrich and emu fad died out, it was common to see "free range" ostrich and emus on the county roads in Texas. Another failed small business boom. NRA Life Benefactor Member, DRSS, DWWC, Whittington Center,Android Reloading Ballistics App at http://www.xplat.net/ | |||
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Keep it wild! Don't fence me in. | |||
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interesting tidbit: the whitetail breeding industry has also tanked considerably from what it used to be. there were quite a few that used to just sell purely for the genetics, now they are having to switch over to selling "shooters" to the hunting operations so the end user probably isn't seeing a price difference in their hunts but the breeders and hunting preserve owners are now seeing some changes in their marketing strategy and costs | |||
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I've never hunted WT deer as we never had them up in this area of CO where I've always hunted. Some have been planted and Iv'e seen a few at times. IF they have a mass of points or drop tines that don't look natural I figure they're just CULL bucks! IF I shot one would most likely ditch the rack and keep the meat. Just my opinion. George "Gun Control is NOT about Guns' "It's about Control!!" Join the NRA today!" LM: NRA, DAV, George L. Dwight | |||
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