Ripp,

Enjoy your visit to Texas, and good luck.

I agree entirely with your thoughts; I also have the same problem. There may be room for debate, but not for deception.

I'm not in favor of the "canned" hunting of any species. If by "canned" we're talking about the killing of an animal that can't survive in the wild, never has survived in the wild, and one that does not exist in a sustainable population on the land hunted.

I'm not talking about merely hunting on piece of land that happens to have a fence around it. So long as the fenced property is large enough, and the population of animals is established and not merely released for the pleasure of the shooter, I have no real problem with that.

After all, I've hunted islands. And water is just one kind of natural barrier to the movement of animals that I can think of. So I can't categorically say that an unnatural barrier automatically shifts everything into the "canned" category.

I hope to hunt lion one day, but I wouldn't hunt one under anything except fair chase conditions. But then, the same goes for a Blackbuck or a Scimitar Horned Oryx.