9.3 - That is the result of globalization & the internet! One person's whinge is another's querry. One's humour is another's insult ....and so on.

I see the issue being extended beyond the contex - so perceptions get mixed up as well.

Cape buffalo or any exhotic hunting in the US is quite a different context to hunting ferrals in Australia or NZ (unless they are all behind fences). Behind the wire is the context & not the fact that the animal is introduced. Free range is the context & not raised / released. The axis deer, Ibex, Gemsbok or Audad in the US have become free range & would be in a similar context to Aussie buffalo or pigs.

I'd like to hunt pigs & buffalo in Oz. But I will not consider paying for an exhotic hunt in the US. Some of the free range ferrals like Axis, Ibex, Aoudad, Gemsbok etc. in public land might be ok. My reason is that Oz offers these animals as the major hunting experience. US hunting expereinces are for Elk, deer, bear, sheep etc.

Thant is MHO.