Busy spring hunting, Namibia, Kansas pic heavy

WIbunker said:

Dumb question, were you able to bring much of the meat back?

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Southwind said:

No, it's not a dumb question. You eat the meat everyday while you are there but the majority is distributed to the villages and workers on the ranches. Everything is used down to the bone, the marrow intestines you name it. That is with the exception of the jackal. Protein is a premium so nothing is wasted.

Forget the popular media and what you see and hear here. Hunting in Africa is what gives value to these animals and supports the conservation effort for their existence and flourishment. I example the whole Cecil the lion episode, the very same park which Cecil lived the government culled 200 lions this year because of overpopulation a story you have to look for to find. The countries that have embraced legal hunting the animals are thriving, those that don't they are in trouble.

It's like here hunters pay for conservation. If you watch Nat Geo you would think you pull up to an open field with dozens of species meandering around just waiting to be shot but these animals want to live and are as spooky and flighty as any animal you will pursue here. They see, smell or hear you and they are gone into a thorn laced labyrinth. At lest in Namibia this is the case. Really, for less than a price of a guided elk hunt here you can hunt several species in an amaizing land. I would recommend it to anyone for a change of pace.

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