The thing I get, most often, is, "ITHOUGHT IT WAS ILLEGAL TO SHOOT THOSE!" It is evedent that most who ask that question have been influenced by the liberal media. They seem to think everything on Earth is endangered, or gone all together!

I don't cut them any slack at all! I simply tell them everything I shot was taken legally, and was not wasted, as the meat we did not eat in camp goes to feed many people. Nothing is wasted in Africa! I don't appoligize for anything I do, legally! I also tell them "Hunting is the salvation of all wildlife, and is simply the takeing of the surplus, of a renewable resourse, which protects the habitat from over use, and protects non-game animals as well

I buy the small picture albums that fits in a jacket pocket, and keep them in my car, or breafcase. In them I put pictures of the camps, live pictures of animals, and birds, then finally a picture of each animal I took on that hunt! The ones who are really interested in the hunt, I show the pictures. To the Know-it-alls, I say, "I shot everything I went for, and fed a lot of people in the process, and can't wait to go back again!"

MacD37 I couldn't have said it better. I too carry a small photo album. The most common question is "How could you shoot a Zebra?" I thell them it's easy, Put the reticle over the shoulder here and press trigger. Repeat as necessary. Then I say, They taste like Zebra. The questions usually stop.

Big Sam:

I read your post with some very personal interest. It was my "misfortune" to be the son a of a woman who was a fanatic about horses. (Some of her family lived in Texas. Need I say more?)She was a champion horsewoman with cups and ribbons to prove it. I shot a zebra at about 80 yards distance with a 375 H&H, 300 gr. soft point. Just as I squeezed off, he stepped down a slope. The bullet hit him just below the shoulder. We spent nearly 8 hours tracking him and it was the PH who caught up and shot him. (I dropped out around hour number 5) I have always believed that it was my mother's ghost cursing me for shooting a "horse" that gave all the trouble!

When I tell people I have eaten a whale they say "you ate a whale??" I reply 'well not the whole thing'. There's room for all God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.