19-year-old girl from Cleburne, Texas, under fire from animal rights activist

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Saw that on FB Luke. This type of response from anti-hunters is what all hunters need to be aware of! Maybe then we (hunters) will finally stop running other hunters down about hunting with crossbows, or hunting in high fenced areas, trophy hunting, or whatever. Hunters need to stand together and support all legal hunting period!

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Looks to me like the only thing that kid is guilty of is being fortunate enough to have opportunies to hunt animals most of us never could. Pretty awesome a 19 year old girl has done so well with dangerous African game.

Shame the antis for the most part are too ignorant to be educated and understand conservation efforts of hunters that they bash plays a huge role in helping these very animals thrive.

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Read the article when it 1st showed up on the web. The only mistake she made was where she chose to post pics of her hunting adventures. Antis are just lurking around places like Facebook to harass conservationist who hunt. The anti dummies don't even know the meat that's not consumed by foreign hunters there in Africa goes to market. Not really all that much different than us buying beef & pork at our local grocery store. The FDA doesn't allow us to take any meat home. When these antis stir up crap like this, I often wonder how many eat meat...be it beef, fish, chicken, turkey, pork...you get my drift.

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.................. what kind of screwed up world do we really live in ????

Some real sick excuses for human beings out there, no doubt about that. Sad really to think this group of terrorists encourages this mentality and has been getting away with it for years.

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Boddington did another interview today. The link hasn't shown up yet.

There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land with thousands and thousands of animals on them that are paid for 100% by hunters. I've been to some of these places. They are real.

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Guess I might be the one person who disagrees....not that I don't think it's great she's a female out hunting, I just disagree with that type of hunting...elephants and what not are already endangered...to me African hunting is like shooting your horse (zebra) or your cat (leopard/lion)...she's probably not going to eat the meat, she's probably doing it for the trophy status...I feel bad for the rap she's getting from the antis but I think it;s expected for what she's doing...It might be on her bucket list but not mine. To each their own.

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Ruth...Just for the record...zebra is nothing like shooting & eating your horse. It's a wild animal that although may resemble a horse it's nothing like it. I was shocked just how good zebra meat is. JMO from enjoying zebra meat cooked over an open fire...it's a lot better than whitetail venison. Mater of fact every different type of big game meat we ate in Africa was better than whitetail venison. Several meats were better than the beef. Also, although a warthog looks like a pig or wild hog it's nothing like our pork either. The PH's in Africa don't consider warthog meat very good at all and they don't cook it for the hunters. It doesn't go to waste...it's given away to the locals.

Elephant, lion,, or leopard still wouldn't be on my hit list on my next African hunting trip (if I ever go back) but to each their own. There are certainly other big game African animals that would be on it and I'd certainly enjoy eating them just like I enjoyed all the different big game animal meats that were cooked on my 1st hunting trip to Africa a couple years ago.

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Guess I might be the one person who disagrees....not that I don't think it's great she's a female out hunting' date=' I just disagree with that type of hunting...elephants and what not are already endangered...to me African hunting is like shooting your horse (zebra) or your cat (leopard/lion)...she's probably not going to eat the meat, she's probably doing it for the trophy status...I feel bad for the rap she's getting from the antis but I think it;s expected for what she's doing...It might be on her bucket list but not mine. To each their own.[/quote']

She DID NOT kill anything that was on the endangered list. Watch the video link that Vermonthunter provided. Look up the African Bush Elephant and southern White Rhino. Look up there Red list ranking. The white rhino by the way was only darted, treated for injuries and still walking around today. And yes she did also pay for the privilege to dart the rhino.

I've been to Africa a couple times it's not like what you are imagining. The stuff doesn't just stand there Safari park stupid and wait to get shot. The places I've hunted in Africa would not have the animals they do if they were not funded by hunters. They simply would not exist. It takes serious wildlife management and money to support the animals on these places. The USDA will not allow meat to come back from afica. You can and will eat lots of it there and the rest is either distributed or sold. NONE of it will be wasted.

Even on "Non-hunting" reserves part of the management practice requires them to cull animals whose populations are getting out of control. These places are finite size and can only support a specific number of animals. So stopping hunting in africa WILL NOT prevent animals from being shot. The major difference is the non-hunting reserves have to pay people to cull animals and the hunting reserves get paid for letting a hunter do it. Practically all of the non-hunting reserves are subsidized by monies taxed from the hunting reserves.

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I still can't get over hunters saying well if you arent eating it you shouldn't be shooting it. REALLY !! ,,, I've given every oz. of meat I don't eat to people that will. So what if someone trophy hunts, to me as long as it's done legally and the meat is given to someone that will consume it, then what's the problem. My way of hunting doesn't have to be your way or NO way.

Not just Africa Martin ... Here's some interesting facts.

~~Here's 10 Reasons Why Hunting is Conservation. #HuntwithFacts #ScienceNotEmotion

Reason No. 1 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1907, only 41,000 elk remained in North America. Thanks to the money and hard work invested by hunters to restore and conserve habitat, today there are more than 1 million.

Reason No. 2 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1900, only 500,000 whitetails remained. Thanks to conservation work spearheaded by hunters, today there are more than 32 million.

Reason No. 3 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1900, only 100,000 wild turkeys remained. Thanks to hunters, today there are over 7 million.

Reason No. 4 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1901, few ducks remained. Thanks to hunters’ efforts to restore and conserve wetlands, today there are more than 44 million.

Reason No. 5 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1950, only 12,000 pronghorn remained. Thanks to hunters, today there are more than 1.1 million.

Reason No. 6 why Hunting Is Conservation: Habitat, research and wildlife law enforcement work, all paid for by hunters, help countless non-hunted species.

Reason No. 7 why Hunting Is Conservation: Through state licenses and fees, hunters pay $796 million a year for conservation programs.*

Reason No. 8 why Hunting Is Conservation: Through donations to groups like RMEF, hunters add $440 million a year to conservation efforts.*

Reason No. 9 why Hunting Is Conservation: In 1937, hunters actually requested an 11% tax on guns, ammo, bows and arrows to help fund conservation. That tax, so far, raised more than $7.2 billion for wildlife conservation.*

Reason No.10 why Hunting Is Conservation: An 11% tax on guns, ammo, bows and arrows generates $371 million a year for conservation.*

*financial info via America’s Sporting Heritage: Fueling the American Economy (January 2013) & Hunting in America: An Economic Force for Conservation (January 2013)

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I hunt and kill a lot of animals i won't eat.

Yotes, anyone eat em? They kill calves, i cannot afford to lose animals and i will kill every one of them i can whether that be while I am deer hunting hunting for yotes or if i see one out the door. They kill fawns and turkeys, sound management to kill them. Would think same would apply with some animals in Africa. What about crows, groundhogs, other nuisance animals that are hunted? If you think that it is wrong to kill them then you would probably also be against killing mice that get in your house, no? Nuisance animals in your barn or shed?

I am sure Ruth did not mean to come across that she is against killing any animals you don't plan to eat.

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I hunt and kill a lot of animals i won't eat.

Yotes, anyone eat em? They kill calves, i cannot afford to lose animals and i will kill every one of them i can whether that be while I am deer hunting hunting for yotes or if i see one out the door. They kill fawns and turkeys, sound management to kill them. Would think same would apply with some animals in Africa. What about crows, groundhogs, other nuisance animals that are hunted? If you think that it is wrong to kill them then you would probably also be against killing mice that get in your house, no? Nuisance animals in your barn or shed?

I am sure Ruth did not mean to come across that she is against killing any animals you don't plan to eat.

What if you could sell a coyote hunt for $6000? Would you tolerate a couple lost calves and not try to kill every coyote you saw? That's how leopard hunting works in Africa. The farmers tolerate the leopards because selling a hunt or two more than makes up for the losses. Otherwise they would be on a mission to completely exterminate them.

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I'm not trying to offend people here, like I said to each their own, we all are entitled to our own opinions. Nothing against predator management. I would support her as a female hunter, I just don't necessarily agree with the species of animals she is harvesting...it's just based on my views and opinion. If she's proud of her accomplishments, great. Me...I wouldn't do it. If I did and published myself like that, then yes I'd expect negative feedback from the antis....

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Guess I might be the one person who disagrees....not that I don't think it's great she's a female out hunting, I just disagree with that type of hunting...elephants and what not are already endangered...to me African hunting is like shooting your horse (zebra) or your cat (leopard/lion)...she's probably not going to eat the meat, she's probably doing it for the trophy status...I feel bad for the rap she's getting from the antis but I think it;s expected for what she's doing...It might be on her bucket list but not mine. To each their own.

Ruth

It's ok to disagree with someone, but please do it with a proper research and have the facts straight before jumping off a cliff on such a sensitive subject. Your statements are no different than a majority of gun control advocates. The majority of us know it's false information, yet the person saying it really believes it.

These hunts feed villages, protect the resources, and add to conservation when it wouldn't have otherwise been provided.

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