Why is it that Zimbabwe PH's like to shoot females? I do not agree with female leopards being shot or any other type of female for that matter.

TexLonghorn,

It is not currently legal for Zim PHs to allow their clients to shoot female leopards. In fact, there are severe penalties for any Zim PH who makes a mistake calling the sex or has an over anxious client shooting too quickly.
I started this thread because some PHs think it would be appropriate to add females to the quota.

Mike

BBC - thanks for the info, but didn't Zim used to allow female Leopards? It just seems that most of the hunt reports I see from Zim with people like Buzz are mainly female elephants and seems that a lot of Zim operators make a living from hunting female elephants? If I recall they even have DVD's showing how to hunt female elephants.

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Originally posted by TexLonghorn:
BBC - thanks for the info, but didn't Zim used to allow female Leopards? It just seems that most of the hunt reports I see from Zim with people like Buzz are mainly female elephants and seems that a lot of Zim operators make a living from hunting female elephants? If I recall they even have DVD's showing how to hunt female elephants.

The DVD is called Hunting the African Elephant and that is what it is about. Zimbabwe allows tuskless to be taken to hopefully reduce their number in the future, although I am no expert on the genetics. It give people an opportunity to hunt elephant at a lower cost, and by every account I have read the Zim elephant population can stand the off take. In fact, most of what i have read indicates that several countries in the region could use more population reduction. I thought we learned in Texas a long time ago that shooting males only was a poor way to reduce overpopulation.

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Originally posted by TexLonghorn:
BBC - thanks for the info, but didn't Zim used to allow female Leopards? It just seems that most of the hunt reports I see from Zim with people like Buzz are mainly female elephants and seems that a lot of Zim operators make a living from hunting female elephants? If I recall they even have DVD's showing how to hunt female elephants.

I believe before the hunting industry got established in Zim, it was acceptable to shoot any leopard as vermin. However, to my knowledge it has never been legal for a Safari Company in Zim to take female leopards.

Elephant cows, mostly tuskless, are allowed to be hunted in Zim for the reasons mentioned by Charles_Helm in the above post. In some areas, lionesses are also legally hunted due their healthy numbers and their over predation of buffalo.