Recent content by J.Ogilvie

I would love to go on a hunt with Jim Shockey. His commitment to ethics, willingness to push himself and his thirst for adventure are truly inspiring.

It's things like this that make me worry about the short-medium term future of hunting in places like Central Asia. I could see things getting pretty ugly for visiting Western hunters in Central Asian countries in the event that Putin decides to flex his muscles in the region.

While it is easy to get worked up over these things, you have to bear in mind that PETA (and other vocal animal rights extremists) only represent a small minority of the population. The vast majority of comments that I have seen online have been supportive of Will Moseley. It gives me some...

Thanks for sharing, tigris115. I have mixed thoughts about the piece. The article makes a good argument for why predator killing competitions should be banned, and I am inclined to agree. The practices described in that article (running animals over, etc.) are not hunting, and unfairly damage...

Thanks for sharing, Sue. This is the sort of content that we need to see more of, particularly when it comes to hunting in Africa. The meat utilization aspect is something that many people in the general public are not aware of. If they were, I think that there would be significantly less...

That's my understanding, too. The black rhino Corey hunted was an old wild male that had been attacking and killing other rhinos.

I'm not sure about white rhinos, but black rhino hunting permits usually go for a very high price. In 2014, a hunter named Corey Knowlton won an auction to hunt a black rhino in Namibia, bidding $350,000. After the auction, he said that he felt the amount he paid was low. The reason it wasn't...

I am planning to join very soon. They do a lot of great work.

This is a direct consequence of our industry's refusal to self-regulate. If hunters and hunting organizations had condemned CBL shooting practices as unethical from the beginning, then this issue wouldn't even exist. But because the practice persisted and became a big political issue, the baby...

You pretty much answered your own question. It's a given that anti-hunters used the CBL industry as a convenient excuse for the banning of all lion imports. However, before the Australian public and politicians became aware of the CBL industry, lion hunting just wasn't something that the...

1. Habitat loss. This is a problem that we as hunters address by spending money that goes towards buying back land and keeping wild lands wild. 2. Ignorance of the realities of conservation/nature. This is a problem that organizations have been working hard to address over the past 15 years or...

That's not correct. It was specifically because of CBL shooting that lion imports to Australia were banned. This is from the Australian Government website explaining why they banned imports: In other words, it was explicitly due to concerns over CBL shooting that lion imports were banned. You...

I'm honestly surprised that it took this long. The facts of the matter are pretty clear. 1. The shooting of captive bred lions is in no way comparable to hunting wild lions. 2. SCI, DSC and CIC all oppose the practice on ethical grounds, and because the practice has no proven conservation...

This is something that Shane Mahoney and Jim Shockey have been saying for a long time, with the former advocating for the term "international hunting," and the latter arguing for the term "selective hunting." The term "trophy hunting" has been twisted by the mainstream media and anti-hunting...

Get well soon, Dennis; we are all thinking of you.