The Accurate Reloading Forums THE ACCURATE RELOADING.COM FORUMS Hunting African Big Game Hunting Hunter sparks furyGo | New | Find | Notify | Tools | Reply | |
| Hunter sparks fury | Login/Join |
| One of Us |
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1729387,00.html Found this on news24.com website this morning. | ||
|
One of Us |
What are the duties of a PH? Has he got the authority to insist that his client does a follow-up on any wounded animal? If so, is there any registration authority for PH's who can take action against them in case of neglect of duties? Further investigation would be necessay to find out whether it was the PH or client who faltered in this specific case. OWLS My Africa, with which I will never be able to live without! | |||
|
| one of us |
I would like to hear from someone with first hand experience in this case before passing judgement. The article is clearly anti-hunting biased, and I suspect some (most) of the facts have been exagerated. | |||
|
| One of Us |
To me the article appears to put a lot more stock into the ecotourism than the hunting tourism. I wonder how the two compare in dollars to the local economy. ____________________________________________ "Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchett. | |||
|
one of us |
The PH is bound by the game to follow the wounded animal as far as possible and try as hard as possible to put the wounded animal out of it's misery - however, he's not allowed to cross onto land owned by a 3rd party without permission which is probably why the hunt was abandoned. My guess is they then went to the neighbour for permission to continue the pursuit - which is probably why they hired the chopper (to locate the wounded Elephant). Thr people who can discipline PH's are the relevant parks board and in some cases PHASA - but in this case I would guess the PH behaved perfectly correctly........but as Bryan says the article seems to be couched in anti-hunting terms. | |||
|
| One of Us |
It was never metioned in the Afrikaans newspaper "Die Volksblad" (todays edition) which also gave me the idea it was hear-say stories. There was recently al lot of controversy about hunting in the Kruger Ntnl Park area. I am not totally up to date, just see bits and pieces in the papers. But I got the suspicion somebody tried to keep the "topic" in the media with this story. Those afrikaans speaking people here, there recently was just such a big story (read: letters of complaint) in "Die Volksblad" about a foto of the winner of a McNab competition with his buck. I would not be surprised if Gun Free SA is the drivingfoce behind a lot of this stories. Anybody got another theory? RM | |||
|
| Powered by Social Strata |
 | Please Wait. Your request is being processed... |
|
Visit our on-line store for AR Memorabilia