Sounds like you've got a bad case of "Bambi Syndrome".

When we (myself and ARer Fallow Buck) were on our way to the hunting area in SA we stopped by the taxidermist (Safari Taxidermy) to see some of their work. They were doing a full body mount of an adult bull Giraffe!

It got me to thinking...would I, could I?

I came to the conclusion that I would not want to:

I could afford the trophy fee (though I would have numerous other priorities on my trophy list)
I could afford the full body mount taxidermy (though there are many other things I would rather spend the money on, or save for)
I guess I could afford the shipping cost (no more holidays for a while, cancel that new car in 2007)
BUT...I could not afford the new house! Where would I put it? Who has ceilings that high?

Uk,

You'd have to be able to afford the new house cos if you came back home with a shouldermounted Girrafe you'd get kicked out of the one you are in at the moment!!!



Girraff.... not for me. It would be like shooting a Spaniel where the only danger is it might lick you to death... fine with me for those that like the idea. I'm also not particularly taken with Elephants, (I'm just plain chicken) Rhino, (They look Dumb, and I'd rather spend $100k on a bunch of Buff hunts).

I also would draw the line at any animal that was too easy to shoot. I'd rather pass up.

Oh... also not sure about monkeys.... A bit to close to home although i could be persuaded.

Now then , bring on those Wartie fellas!!! That's what I call a whole bunch of fun!!!

FB

I shot a Giraffe once. A nice bull. When he was down and we were standing around trying to figure out what to do with it, it suddenly got quiet. My friend looked up. Then the tracker looked up. Then I looked up. We were surrounded.

The herd of about six other animals had come back so quietly we hadn't heard them and now they were standing around us in a circle. They were looking down at us, big eyes, long eye lashes. Some with their heads tilted a bit to see better. Trying to speak.

"What have you done to Harry?" 'What did he ever do to you?"

Guilt.

Don't ever ship a green Giraffe hide back here for mounting. No one can thin it and it weighs about 600 pounds.

I have a friend who has a full body mount in his trophy room. You can walk under it. He has it's pecker plumbed. Squeeze one and you get Scotch, squeeze the other and you get Bourbon. Adds a new element to the term 'Highball'.

A booze serving giraffe dick... ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC!!!!!!!!!!!

I won't kill one for the same reason I wont't kill a lion or a elephant or a dove of any breed...personal choice. I love to hunt rabbits with my son's beagles now that he lives in AK an doesn't get to run them....other hunters tell me they love to kill elephants an doves...that's their choice let them knock their socks off

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He has it's pecker plumbed. Squeeze one and you get Scotch, squeeze the other and you get Bourbon.

And I thought a Scrotum pencil hoder was a bit grim...

That goes beyond grim so far that it starts to verge on cool....



FB

I assume the testicles are squeezed?

I agree!

Giraffe's are cute!

He was cute at the end my 416 iron sights!

He was cute on my dinner plate!

His hide will be cute on my floor!

And his pedastal shoulder mount will be incredable in my living room!!!!

All mother natures critters are "cute" in their own way!!!!

As Fallow Buck knows I've ordered the Blue Wilderbeest Scrotum pencil holder.....$40 for comedy taxidermy!!

It will be worth every penny of that...

windowmaker how on earth did you get that smelly critter past your nose to eat?

I understand that the Italians make some spectacular dishes out of dolphin...

Koala bears are a no no.

Kangaroos would be OK.

But I hate it when people kill snakes, crocs are cool though.

Hippo can be shot on land for sport or in the water for bait.

The list goes on.

Cute scrotum?

cats,

Ok! I admit it, I didn't eat any of mine because of the stink! , but I did have some of a clients of mine the year before, his didn't smell bad, it was "cute" tasting!

No really it wasn't bad tasting

I confess that I am of the persuasion that as far as I am personally concerned, giraffe's are too iconic for me to want to shoot one. But I am curious, how tall does your ceiling have to be to house one of these things? I am particularly interested in the one that sits on the floor in the photo. Thanks.

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Originally posted by JVinAK:
I confess that I am of the persuasion that as far as I am personally concerned, giraffe's are too iconic for me to want to shoot one. But I am curious, how tall does your ceiling have to be to house one of these things? I am particularly interested in the one that sits on the floor in the photo. Thanks.

My first giraffe was mounted as a pedestal mount, and I have twelve foot ceilings. It stands about eleven feet, with a good foot of clearance. You could probably get by with ten feet or a little less. A giraffe is the poor man's elephant. No other way can you shoot such a big animal and experience that much animal hitting the ground at a reasonable price. I have taken two of them, and it is a challenge to do it with one shot. Also, they make great bait for lion and leopard, four quarters to hang as bait, and a fifth from the neck. I took my second leopard from a giraffe quarter.

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Boom Stick
what animals do you think are too cute to hunt?

Well for the record the Boer Republic once sold a standard hunting license that included in the "bag limit" two Bushmen.

Really!!!!

I've always wondered about the conversation with the taxidermist.....

"Well mr hunter, do you want these two mounted?"

Hunter: "NO, just shaking hands, they was only friends."!!!!!

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Originally posted by vapodog:

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Boom Stick
what animals do you think are too cute to hunt?

Well for the record the Boer Republic once sold a standard hunting license that included in the "bag limit" two Bushmen.

Yes, don't know if it is true, but I have been told that it was at one time the case! That is one place that I would call it quits!

Cute?

One question: does giraff taste like chicken?

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Originally posted by quickshot:
One question: does giraff taste like chicken?

Actually more like Bushman

An an answer on which cute animal you can shoot I found this in the old "Coffe Shop" forum

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Bob Scammell in Outdoor Edge.

*Dear Macho-Pig

I cannot for the life of me, understand how you can look at those big brown eyes, then murder a beautiful deer.

Disgustedly Daphne Smith-Jones

Dear Daphie

I can't understand it either. Head shots are a poor percentage.Your success will improve if you will just ignore the eyes and concentrate instead on the larger heart-lung area. Even then it is hard to do it right. Take a solid rest and a deep breath, let half of it out and squ...ee..ee..ee..ze that trigger.

Hope this helps, Bob

WOW!
That made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!

Well done PerN.

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Originally posted by safariman:
I booked a hunter this year for whom the girraffe was the #1 Species of interest. He took a big old stink bull and had the entire hide tanned whole. It is a Beautiful trophy! I, personally, am not interested in shooting one, no particular reason, it just dosn't get my juices flowing, so to speak. I will also admit that I had VERY mixed emotions when I shot my bull elephant in '04. Elation and remorse all mixed together. For about a year, I was sure that I would not shoot another, now I am certain that I will!!! To each his own, within the limits of law and ethics, says me.....

On my first trip in 2004 to Zimbabwe I never imagined that I would be capable of shooting a Griaffe but after walking three consecutive days following Zebra tracks with the Great Giraffes leading the heard I would state that I would definetaly shoot one on a fair chase hunt. They are the supreme look outs for the Zebra and sometimes the Eland.

Good Hunting and shoot straight.

Reagrds,

RLWC

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Originally posted by boom stick:

its kinda like shooting a dolphin, they are not rabbid maneaters like lions or people stompers

So what, they are hard to stalk, soak up bullets, and are great fun to drop. And it makes the locals happy to get 4000 pounds of free meat.

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Originally posted by bwanajcj:

Dolphin now that sounds like an interesting hunt, kinda like shooting skeet.

Excellent

If those rascals had busted one more of my stalks on sable, eland or nyala, I would have likely shot as many as my bank account would have afforded. Bastard giraffes!

My guess is that dolphins are harpooned, hardly a sporting activity and something best left to inuits.

I have eaten giraffe (at the Carnivore Restaurant in Nairobi) and it is quite good. However, I am another irrational hunter and have no desire to shoot one. On one safari, while hiding behind some scrub waiting for a shot on an Impala ram, two giraffes who were watching me walked right up to within about 15 yards to see just what I was doing. It was damned distracting but their total innocence and puppy dog curiosity earned them a place in my "don't shootem for sport" category. I have no qualms whatsoever about shooting just about any legally huntable animal and might decide tomorrow to change my mind, but as of today I prefer to just watch them.

If you don't want to hunt giraffe, no one is going to try to force you into it!

Personally, I like hunting old giraffe bulls. They are spooky, and they can be very challenging to hunt if you walk them up, stalk properly, do it the right way, etc., and bullet-placement cane be a mite tricky as well.

Anyone who shoots a griaffe from the rig doesn't deserve that animal.......

AD

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Originally posted by allen day:

....Anyone who shoots a griaffe from the rig doesn't deserve that animal.......

AD

If that was said about all PG 3/4 of all hunters wouldn't deserve their "trophies" either! Sadly today disembarking from the rig and a 200 yd stalk is called hunting.
An I still don't care to kill a lion or elephant. TLM

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I understand that the Italians make some spectacular dishes out of dolphin...

Cewe, If I remember well it was an ancient recipe prohibited during sixties.... Dolphin fillets salted and dryied, a sort of biltong or dry meat.... MUSCIAMME was the name. Don't ask to me which kind of savour it had, never tasted.

Boomstick,

I don’t think that you’re being unreasonable with the giraffe thing. I kind of feel the same way.

However,
I was with my buddy when he culled an old bull giraffe from his game farm.

The bull took two rounds from his .450 Rigby through the boiler room and still went about 500 yards I was amazed at how though that bull was. They've also got really thick skin. And the largest leg bones I’ve ever seen, the darn things are like telegraph poles!

And they are like trying to sneak up on a 3 story pair of Ziess binoculars they are not easy to hunt

I think I'd probably give it a whack if the opportunity ever comes up just to have tried it for myself.

There sure are some cute critters out there. Hell a cape buffalo calf is about the cutest critter alive.

Nuff said if A guy doesn't want to hunt some particular animal for whatever reason that's his business. Just don't try and stop me from doing it because you think it’s too cute.

My wife does that to me from time to time. She just about had a break down the first time I shot a duiker. I gave her a special “spanking†later that made her feel better

Surestrike, I detect a hint of attraction to sexy young Cape Buffalo females. Here's one who is pretty friendly.



The picture was taken in Meru National Park in Kenya last year. Raised since a calf by one of the Park Rangers, this girl was positively affectionate.

I hunt an animal because either I like the challenge of the hunt or the environment they live in (Mountain hunting) or I am fascinated by the animal.

I had many opportunities to shoot a Giraffe on a hunt in Zimbabwe but did not for two reasons, the trophy was not attractive to me and they just stood there and were not alarmed, so to me it would have been like shooting a cow. I have no problem if someone likes the trophy and wants to shoot a Giraffe.

Regards
Aziz

boom stick

By now you have seen enough responses to know that you should have kept your mouth shut!

I'll kind of sneak in at the end here and say that I completely agree with you although I did laugh at many of the posts. (I'm changing my email user name!) I thought warthogs were so ugly as to be cute and wouldn't shoot one. My own PH said "They have character!". (I shall notify him that unless he pays me money I will reveal his name!)

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Surestrike, I detect a hint of attraction to sexy young Cape Buffalo females. Here's one who is pretty friendly.



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HEY,

She is kind of cute! Is she friendly enough for quiet conversation and meaningful dialogue?

How do you start a meaningful conversation with a buffalo anyway.

Something like:

Excuse me but I just have to say that you've got the cutest little bosses and I just love your drop and tips. Do you have those professionally done or do you do them yourself .

Have you seen many lion around this year?

Surestrike:

You call that a line? You cad!, you! Even if you succeed in picking her up -how do you sneak out of bed afterwards? This lady might not be satisfied to hear that you will call her. (Of course, I, being a gentleman, would call her -with a 300 gr. solid from my 375 H&H calling station)

Steve M: That´s the dish! I read about it in a travel book from the fifties, sounded like good eating but I watched Flipper as a kid so it might be a bit tough to chew...