Gee WILL i touched a nerve with you didnt i! You certainly got off the track hahahaha....sure you are a fair dinkum hunter?

""I think it is also an innate characteristic of Caucasians to feel guilty about any accomplishment.""

Holy fuggin shit man i have never felt guilty about any accomplishment i have ever made in the field!

Mike416Rigby what you posted certainly makes sense to me mate taking it a bit easier as age catches up after you have done the hard yards is the way we will all have to go.

I posted about doing it out in the bush as it is the way here in OZ..you want it? go and hunt it..simple!
But with the advent of the modern day "guide" the short cuts are taken so as to maximise chances of success and it gives me and plenty of others the drizzling shits to hear about the latest overseas clients (or wealthy locals too) taking the "South Pacific 15" animals in ten fuggin days.......holy shit how in the frig do these pro clients do it?They must be great hunters eh!
Well just in case you dont know i can tell you how some do it (success that is) I know for a fact that some simply buy big animal heads already dead,a lot shoot them in pens..undersized pens at that too,or they take certain game animals under illegal cicumstances (spotlighting hog deer) or in preserves.And one big time o/s visitor i spoke to personally that was out here hunting took his sambar stag out of my mates pen and that was only when the deer was darted and taken to a creek where it was allowed to stand up and be shot,this man was/is one of the "big time professional clients" that took his SP 15 animals simply by buying them,i hate to tell you this but he shot his Wap in a deer crush of all places so as not to damage any part of the soon to be mounted "trophy"
Another Pro client took his 15 animals here with 16 shots,yep sixteen shots for fifteen animals that include sambar,red,fallow,chital (axis)rusa and hog deer,thar,chamois and wapiti not to mention the rest of the game......shit what a great shot eh?yep fantastic for sure but he hunted and killed all these animals in not much more than a week!Something aint right there eh,if you cant smell a rat you aint a hunter.

Oh yeah what a self righteous prick that i am for sure but i dont sit back and tell tales of how i took this and that in the wilds of where ever in the world to who ever is standing in awe in my trophy room just to satisfy myself that yep "i am a true hunter" even though i shot my Thar and Chamois out of a chopper in NZ eh! Happens weekly in NZ for the pro clients that havent the time to walk up the mountain or their bulging wallet weight precludes them from doing so.

I have never been to Africa,India,Alaska or other great hunting destinations personally but i have been there through the words of the men that pioneered the hunting in those places in books,films etc of most of those places and let me tell you that most of those men would shudder in their graves if they could only see the way some of todays "pro clients' take some of the trophy animals on offer throughout the world.
I am certainly not saying that all pro client hunters are guilty of the worst deeds, Some pro clients actively walk and hunt alongside their respective guides and give as good a hunt as their guides.
Yep call me self righteous for sure but also call the men (and women) that hunt in the true sense of the word HUNTERS and not collectors.

Just got my 2004 full colour glossy SCI Convention auction preview with all the great stuff on offer and some of those hunts in there besides being over priced simply denigrate some of the species......hunts such as 150 class w/tail in 3 days, 3 and 5 day hunts for bull elk of "x" amount points etc hell i thought that these animals are hard to hunt but reading all these auction pages it seems that a "pro client" with the money can simply go and buy a wall hanger in no time at all! Somewhat conflicts with my buddy in Idaho that has taken numerous bull elk the hard way(real way) by calling them up that is in the back hills of his mountain country but then i suppose he is a self righteous hunter also.Ah! shit here is another ad 15 animals in ten days including red axis fallow and sika deer,well let me tell you Will old fella that to legit hunt a fallow buck (or the others) it might take you ten days and not even see a trophy buck/stag etc and to take all of those animals in 10 friggin` days is Not Hunting in the true sense of the word,it is once again collecting animals that are captive to a degree.Lets stand up and be counted, are we hunters or are we collectors and to be branded self righteous for doing it my way makes me feel good Will as it appears to have grated sumpin` in your nerve ends that tells me you could be one of the "others"
I have to say i love a camp with a nice soft swag and real stove to cook on but then just to go hunting i still take a cold mountain ridge to sleep on as well.I walked in to the headwaters of the Dan river with a 70 year old sambar hunter a few years ago and this man has the score on the board with as many good "heads" as any other hunter i know,i like to think that i will be able to do so at that age as well and after that type of hunting how could this man succumb to being a "pro client"
I dont really give a rats arse much about it all really except that it is a shame to see the natural way of life changing here due to the enormous amount of money being on offer for game, which has shut the shop for the average family hunter in a lot of places which were open to all before.Ahh! this plastic computer is pissing me..shit i`m bored i`m going hunting!