Hunting Ethics Of Taking Female Animals In Africa

[Newboomer]

Happy disabled vet. Was told a year before this hunt that he may never walk again. Rachero's Safari and Magnus Crossberg donated the hunt, I arranged to pay for travel and came along for support.

I have no problem shooting females for management purposes. I've killed a few springbok females in cases of overpopulation. Some were not in the best condition due to drought.
My gemsbok and zebra are females. The gemsbok had a bum leg and was hobbling along alone. Mercy shot. Zebra was an old mare on the edge of the herd.

 

[RR 314]

You folks need to get with the times. There are more than two sexes/genders in the animal kingdom. .

Two trips to Africa, 2 cow buffalo. Yeah, I'm fine with it. They definitely rank as trophies to me.

I have killed a fair number of cow caribou and whitetail does. Some of them I consider trophies. One cow, I camped in an unheated tent in below zero for that hunt, and I rolled her with a running shot at a hundred yards, just ahead of a blizzard, and it was well below zero. Yes, I consider her a trophy and her antlers are on my wall.

About the only whitetail I will shoot these days is an old dry doe that starts blowing and snorting and trying to alert every deer within earshot that something is amiss. Killing them brings me joy. .