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The Bloody Business of the Trophy Hunters

September 11, 2007 By: SoVeg Category: Hunting Sucks 5 Comments →

The following article can be found http://independant.co.uk

By David Randall and Jonathan Owen

Published: 09 September 2007

Rich “sportsmen” are paying up to $35,000 per trip to hunt down and kill polar bears, which are then stuffed and mounted for display.

An IoS investigation has identified 10 companies offering polar bear hunting trips. On many of their websites are images of bloody bear carcasses, besides which a grinning hunter poses with gun or crossbow.

Some animals appear to have several wounds, indicating that their deaths were less the climax to a sport and more a slow execution on ice. Experts estimate that around 1,000 of the world’s 22,000-25,000 remaining polar bears are killed each year.

About 150 of these are shot by hunters in Canada, 200 by poachers in Russia, and the remainder by native peoples in Canada, the US and Greenland.

And the number of officially sanctioned kills is increasing. Two years ago, Canada upped its quota for hunting by 28 per cent to 518, Greenland (in an attempt to stem the 250 or so unofficial kills) laid down an annual quota, and Russia, where poaching is a major problem, is about to lift its ban on hunting for the first time in 50 years.

In Canada, each Inuit community decides how many polar bear “tags” it will retain, and how many it will sell to trophy hunters. Hunting trip firms then sell these “tags”, plus travel and accommodation, as part of a package deal. Alaska Hunting Safaris, for example, invites hunters to “Join us on the adventure of a lifetime for the thrill of chasing the Arctic’s greatest trophy animal, the polar bear!”

Demand is strong. Alaska-based Adventures in the Wild has already sold out its polar bear hunting trips for next year and reports that polar bear tags are selling out within days of becoming available.

Once in the Arctic, the clients travel by dog sled accompanied by local guides. On sighting a bear, the dogs chase down the bears until, exhausted and trapped, they can be shot at by the tourists.

Companies assure clients that local back-up is on hand to help “finish the job”. In a Safari Club International newsletter, one hunter, who went with Pokiak Guiding and Outfitting in Canada, describes the killing of a 10ft bear: “I squeezed off my .416 [gun]. I heard the immediate WHACK – but he didn’t go down! The bear lunged toward the open water… I continued to shoot, and I could hear the rounds hitting, but this grand old bear would not go quietly.

“All of a sudden, he crashed through the ice and finally succumbed in a pond-sized area of slushy ice water… I watched from the hard ice as James and Jacob went to work to recover my prized trophy… An exhilarating moment!”

Polar bear trophies are also in demand from collectors. Rugs can sell for $10,000 apiece, with illegal kills in Russia believed to be the main source. But skins are available in Canada, too.

An IoS reporter was offered one by www.Bear-SkinWorld.com. “We have one polar bear rug which has just been completed from our production line. We have not yet posted this polar bear on our web site. He measures 7ft 6ins from nose to tail. Price is $12,000, plus shipping.”

Canadians say polar bear hunting is properly managed to ensure the viability of bear populations, and Inuit representatives say that the income from sports hunting is vital for the survival of their communities.

———I’d love to hear you opinions. Feel free to comment. Trophy hunting is a brutal waste of life as far as Mr. SoVeg is concerned.

I recently moved, and decided to get digital cable at the new place. I neeeeed my National Geographic and Animal Planet. For the first few months we get all of the channels that are available. I noticed on the guide a channel called Wild TV. It sounded like another fun nature channel to me…

Turns out Wild TV is a hunting and fishing channel. I found out quite quickly as they were just shooting a walrus as I flicked to it. I find it hard to believe that people find killing innocent wildlife entertaining. Not only to participate in, but to watch on TV with a bowl of popcorn in their stupid lap.

Bear Kicks Hunter’s Ass

August 21, 2007 By: SoVeg Category: Hunting Sucks No Comments →

Bear attacks unlucky hunter in Finnish season opener
Mon Aug 20, 8:39 AM ET

A wounded bear attacked an unlucky hunter in Finland on the first day of the
hunting season Monday, but the man survived suffering only a big fright and
a few stitches, officials said.

Together with two hunting buddies, the man was tracking a brown bear he had
just wounded with a bullet in a thick forest in Kiite, in eastern Finland
near the Russian border, when the bear released its anger on the shooter.

The animal escaped another round of heavy-calibre fire and the jaws of the
man’s hunting dog before turning on the hunter.

The bear bit the man in the arm and clawed his neck, head and back before
the two other men succeeded in scaring off the animal and shooting it dead.

The hunter suffered only minor wounds, the head of the local hunting
federation Hannu Tahvanainen told AFP.

The bear quota for the 2007 season, which runs from the end of August until
the end of October, has been set at 79 out of a population of about 1,000
animals.

——– This is a depressing article, but at least that wonderful bear left some permanent marks on the ass that shot him. To quote the band 311, “Guns are for pussies.”

-Mr. SoVeg

Hunting is for Sickos

July 07, 2007 By: SoVeg Category: Hunting Sucks 4 Comments →

Hunting in the past, was done out of necessity. Hunting today, is a ‘sport’ for sickos. The majority of participants are gun-loving asses that consider hunting not only a sport, but a delightful activity. Hunting is NOT a sport, and for those who find killing with no good reason enjoyable, give me your address so I can kick you in the face.

As if animals such as deer aren’t killed often enough, highways and other roads end many more precious lives. Approximately one million animals a day are killed on US highways thanks to severe habitat destruction that has turned their land into roadways. It is too bad roads aren’t the only thing our wildlife has to worry about.

Millions of deer are killed each year by blood-thirsty, camo wearing maniacs. They are a society (a very creepy and heartless one). They murder the animal from hundreds of yards away, and they hang it’s head on their wall. They show absolutely no respect for it, and they make sure to get a few pictures after a kill (like the one above). Big smiles, you’ve officially made up for for the fact that you have a tiny penis. “NATTTT” – Borat

When I was younger I lived near a large wooded area. It was eventually flattened by clear cutting, but this was before that horrible event. I was walking through the woods when I stumbled upon a bloody mess… literally. There were body parts everywhere, these deer had been “jacked”, skinned, and butchered in the woods because it is illegal to “jack” deer.

“Jacking” deer involves shining a spot light in the eyes of a deer at night and shooting it while it stands there mesmerized by the light. Deer come out for the ‘safety’ of nightfall. They graze, and they socialize. These open fields are often near to, or connected to roads. They blind it, kill it, and either butcher it their like I mentioned, toss it in the back and cover it, or even put it under the hood of a large truck.

Kids are being brought into the “sport” of hunting at a young age. They are being raised to think this is normal, and they will raise their children the same. This cycle has to stop. Killing for fun is not right.

Hunters tend to be convinced that if they did not hunt, that the world would become over populated with certain species. They do not realize that animals are not idiots. Just like mice in a cage only breed when there is space for their young to live, other wildlife are not going to knowingly overpopulate. That would just equal more competition for food and stomping grounds. We are the ones causing an out of control population crisis (7 billion in no time), because we are the idiots.

This little eleven year old sicko got international attention for killing this giant hog. I hate to say, most of this attention did not focus on the fact that it was an atrocity. In the majority of coverage it received, they were just amazed by the size of the hog and the little bastard was praised for the kill. What is wrong with our world?Many have seen this picture as it is all over the net, but I’m not sure if everyone has heard an update on the story. That pig had a name. Its name was Fred, and it was some ones pet hog that had escaped four days previous. Why someone was keeping a 1,051 pound hog at home, I do not know.We’ve got creepy camouflaged men and women in the woods shooting everything they see, and we even have children doing so. Tens of thousands of dogs and cats die every year because hunters like to shoot whatever they see that moves. When will this creepy George Bush loving society leave this earth? I hope to be alive to see the end of their sick ways of thinking.

-Mr. SoVeg