Kevin Peacocke
AH ambassador
- Joined
- Feb 10, 2018
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- 6,119
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- Location
- Harare Zimbabwe
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- 108
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- Member of
- Cleveland Gun Club
- Hunted
- Zimbabwe, SouthAfrica
I enjoy the hunt, the trophy is irrelevant. A cull hunt is still a hunt. All hunt meat is used; on private concessions they normally have their own butcheries and the meat is either sold to the community or turned into biltong, also for sale of course. So whether you pay a little extra and get the skin and horns as well, the real value of the hunt you did was that it benefits the locals and they didn't even have to set a snare and risk the consequences. Rhino horn and eleplant tusk poaching apart the vast majority of game poaching is for meat, meat, meat. The best deterrent for that is to get hunted meat and some financial benefits back to the surrounding community and let them know that unless there is abundant game the hunters won't come any more.