I've enjoyed two safaris with Mark Sullivan, and I haven't seen anything unethical or underhanded when I was hunting with him, in fact, far from it. Mark has had a tremendous work ethic, has shown superb judgement, and much of our hunting has been done on foot, the old-fashioned way, and shooting from the rig has been kept to a minimum. All of the animals I've shot with Mark were put in the salt straight-up, and I did all my own shooting to put them there. My own experience with him has left nothing to criticize.

What Mark has done that I personally have trouble with and won't be party to is letting an animal that was already wounded stand there and bleed until given the opportunity to charge. Ethically, I think an animal that has been wounded (and not intentionally wounded, either) should be finished ASAP, pure and simple.

Now, if someone wants to let an UNWOUNDED animal "decide how he's going to die", stand there and take the charge, then apply a brain shot to settle the dispute, that's up to them.

Personally, I don't want to do it that way, I won't do it that way, and I'm too chicken to do it that way

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