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BARGAIN HUNTERS Trophy hunters offered sickening ‘buy one, get one free’ package to kill two lions for the price of one

Jon Lockett

7 Oct 2019, 10:41Updated: 7 Oct 2019, 12:23

A HEARTLESS safari company is offering bargain hunting packages with a sickening kill one, shoot one for free deal.

Mkulu African Hunting Safaris' advert states: “Book a lion hunt with us and add a lioness at no extra cost.”


The South Africa-based firm brags it offers "unrivalled Big 5 hunting safari packages" and lion hunting safaris.

The 'Big 5' consists of the Cape Buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhinoceros - which are the most difficult and most dangerous species to hunt.

The news comes as wildlife campaigners say it is has never been cheaper to become a trophy hunter, reports The Mirror.

Eduardo Goncalves, of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “Business is booming for the trophy industry.

“Before, it was just the landed gentry and army colonels who went on hunting safaris.

“Today, it’s gas engineers, utility company customer service managers, NHS suppliers, internet provider supervisors and even pensioners jetting off to kill wild animals for fun.

"Last-minute deals and cancellation offers mean some hunters are shopping around for bargains. It’s like Black Friday but for the animals every day is a black day."

Cheaper flights has led to a huge escalation in the number of trophy hunting firms setting up in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.


The Mirror also reports on one company offering bargain rates on a vile "cull package."

The deadly "deal" at Rance River Reserve, South Africa offers “5 day, 7 animals, 4 hunters £1,499; 2 hunters £1,799.

“Choose 7 between: Black wildebeest, Bontebok, Impala (f), Impala (m) Jackal, Kudu (f under 53”), Warthog, Baboon, Vervet Monkey. Add a Zebra for £350.”

Another firm - Discount African Hunts - sells hunting packages under the banner “making Africa affordable”.

The hunting firm even sends out a weekly ­newsletter showing off last minute cancellation deals.

During the summer, Manish Ghelabhai ­travelled to South Africa with Pawprint Safari – which runs hunts for £1,800 plus flights.

The Norfolk gas engineer is pictured on the company’s Facebook page next to a dead lion - which typically costs £4,000.


He wrote online: “I always thought that I would struggle to afford a hunting trip to Africa.”

The ex-soldier, who served in Iraq, told the Times: “Shooting is a conservation tool but people see pictures of rich Americans grinning over dead animals... Turning land into farms creates a wildlife desert.

"It’s our responsibility to ensure there is a future.”

Other trophy hunters also believe the money they spend on safaris is actually helping SAVE wildlife.

“I can go on a five-day African hunt for about £2,000, plus air fares,” said Graham Jeffery, 69, a retired health and safety officer from Gravesend in Kent, who hunts antelope.

“If it wasn’t for hunting money, the land would be turned over to cattle so although we kill some animals, overall it protects wildlife.”

In March we told how a coward filmed shooting a sleeping lion in Zimbabwe had been revealed as a remorseless trophy hunter who boasted about killing rare beasts.


Guy Gorney, from Illnois, was branded a "scumbag" on social media, after cruel footage of him shooting the big cat caused an online storm.

Goncalves added: “Giraffes, elephants, zebras and even primates are being shot for ‘fun’ and their trophies brought into the UK for the bragging rights . . . Trophy hunting in Africa is a colonial-era abomination long past its sell-by date.”

The Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting says British hunters have imported 113 lion trophies, 168 leopard trophies and 852 elephant trophies in the past decade.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...g-sickening-20526636


Link to another article on the lion hunt.

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In March we told how a coward filmed shooting a sleeping lion in Zimbabwe had been revealed as a remorseless trophy hunter who boasted about killing rare beasts.

Shooting sleeping lions isn't very sporting and filming the act and posting it on social media is beyond idiotic. One stupid picture or video does more damage to our industry than a thousand positive stories.

Silly little egos are what's destroying our hunting rights.

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One stupid picture or video does more damage to our industry than a thousand positive stories.

Now how often has that been said year in, year out? People were vehement in their replies that it was legal, it was their God-given right, etc.etc.etc.

Now that the shit has solidly hit and stuck to the fan, the future looks somewhat foreboding and the same people are squirming.

You guys are talking out of your ass in regards to the Guy Gorney video of his hunt where he shot the sleeping lion in a dry river bed. Guy didn't post it on social media. It was an episode of Tracks Across Africa and the clip was taken out of context, posted by the antis to smear him. Discussed here before. It was a 100% ethical hunt and they just happened to come across the lion sleeping while on the way in to check baits.

Instead of throwing good ethical hunters like Guy to the wolves and eating our own, we should be standing up to these ass clowns and supporting him.

Rather than blindly pretending we are always in the right, maybe folks should be more thoughtful on the message we are conveying...

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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One stupid picture or video does more damage to our industry than a thousand positive stories.

Now how often has that been said year in, year out? People were vehement in their replies that it was legal, it was their God-given right, etc.etc.etc.

Now that the shit has solidly hit and stuck to the fan, the future looks somewhat foreboding and the same people are squirming.

But it makes "us" all feel better to throw one descending voice under the bus.

Surely the ability to approach a sleeping animal and dispatch it is the epitome of stealth and stalking. Do lions sleep unusually soundly?
How many on here have observed a sleeping deer?
Would you feel morally obliged to wait for one to wake before you shot it?
If so why? The aim is to kill without placing the animal under duress, to be as humane as possible, what could be more humane and artful than to approach and end its days while it slept?

No matter what we do, they will attack us so fuck them cocksuckers is all I have to say

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Originally posted by boarkiller:
No matter what we do, they will attack us so fuck them cocksuckers is all I have to say

Agreed!

They hate hunting. They hate fishing. They hate me. They hate you.

Throwing another hunter, or type of hunting, under the bus doesn't make them not hate you.

I'll be hunting deer later this month. If I spot a big mulie buck, bedded, from a mile off, manage to sneak within rifle range, then notice he's sleeping, I'll be sure to wake him up before I fire. Warning shot? Or is shouting accepted?

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Originally posted by Angus Millar:
Surely the ability to approach a sleeping animal and dispatch it is the epitome of stealth and stalking. Do lions sleep unusually soundly?
How many on here have observed a sleeping deer?
Would you feel morally obliged to wait for one to wake before you shot it?
If so why? The aim is to kill without placing the animal under duress, to be as humane as possible, what could be more humane and artful than to approach and end its days while it slept?

My thought also, you would have to be a very good stalker.

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Originally posted by Angus Millar:
Surely the ability to approach a sleeping animal and dispatch it is the epitome of stealth and stalking. Do lions sleep unusually soundly?
How many on here have observed a sleeping deer?
Would you feel morally obliged to wait for one to wake before you shot it?
If so why? The aim is to kill without placing the animal under duress, to be as humane as possible, what could be more humane and artful than to approach and end its days while it slept?

I have been hunting deer since 1954, and I have come upon exactly two bucks that were bedded, both of which I shot right then. I did not consider that unethical, and still do not, but I am sure some anti hunter could do a skillful job of writing just how horrible a person I am because I shot a buck in its bed.

Standing, sleeping or running, if it is an animal I am specifically hunting I will shoot it.

Oh I get it, If dangerous game hunting is affordable it is therefore unethical. Only the Brits!

I have hunted with Mkulu Hunting Safaris. It's a very ethical operation. The lions he offers at a discount are farm bred lions and hunted in vast "ranches" of many thousand of acres. It's hard and dangerous hunting. Can be lots of walking and stalking.

I am encouraged that the Brits have rediscovered Africa, and in particular hunting. Perhaps the ranks of hunter-conservationists in the UK will be restored!

And the only thing sickening here is the pious propaganda of the vocal left.

A real man would walk within 10 yards of the sleeping simba, shout, and then let the lion decides how he wants to die!

BH63

The silly bastards made it illegal to import them, so they are worth less than it costs to feed them.

What the hell did they think would happen? The farmers would gladly go broke keeping valueless stock alive?

Yet another “unintended consequence” of some feelgood law.

Hope they are happy!