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shakari
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Re: When is a leopard a trophy?
22/04/09 02:49 AM

If the hunt was sold to him as for a particular damage causing cat, (and stipulated as such in the contract) and he accepted the deal, then he has no right to bleat about the size or sex of the trophy...... He agreed to take that particular cat, so I fail to understand why he should be unhappy.

(FWIW) It's different in Tanzania where we're not allowed to take females and we have a minimum size requirement to comply with. To make sure there are no mistakes, I place two small pieces of reflective tape as sizing marks on the branch where the cat will be perched and I take a spotting scope into the blind with me. If I can't see his nuts, I don't let the client shoot........... but that isn't the case up there.

I've never done a hunt with hounds so can't comment but I guess it's a helluva lot easier to sex and size them that way........ bit tougher on the legs though!

It's always interesting how people vary on the trophy expectation front though. Most want the biggest available if possible but a year or two ago, I was hunting with a client and we had two Leopards feeding on two separate baits a few miles apart. I sat down with him and told him he had a choice of taking a monster that was a bit twitchy and would take another three or four days before he would be ready to shoot or he could take an average tom the next night....... I nearly fell over bckwards when he opted for the smaller cat.

I guess variety is the spice of life huh!

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Steve "Shakari" Robinson
Kuduland Safaris (Africa) Ltd
info@kuduland.com
www.kuduland.com

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When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	21/04/09 09:29 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Litespeed	23/04/09 06:49 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	23/04/09 06:55 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	23/04/09 07:36 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 07:04 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	23/04/09 07:28 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	NitroX	23/04/09 01:00 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 03:33 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	23/04/09 04:23 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 04:50 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Paul	23/04/09 05:57 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	23/04/09 06:06 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 07:35 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Bramble	24/04/09 07:57 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	24/04/09 06:16 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	cooch	25/04/09 01:57 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	25/04/09 02:19 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	25/04/09 06:15 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Der_Jaeger	21/04/09 09:48 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	BNagel	21/04/09 10:14 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	21/04/09 10:40 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	rscott	21/04/09 10:52 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	21/04/09 11:04 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	rscott	21/04/09 11:41 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	21/04/09 11:47 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	xausa	22/04/09 12:06 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	peter	22/04/09 12:30 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 02:49 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	22/04/09 02:33 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	Ndumo	21/04/09 11:15 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	SharpsNitro	22/04/09 03:12 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 04:17 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	lancaster	22/04/09 04:55 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	thorshammer	22/04/09 05:08 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 05:43 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	22/04/09 07:14 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 07:28 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	22/04/09 08:07 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 11:23 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 11:47 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	SafariHunt	23/04/09 02:06 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 02:38 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	SafariHunt	23/04/09 03:27 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 04:19 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	23/04/09 04:53 AM
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Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	xausa	22/04/09 11:21 PM
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Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	tophet1	16/08/09 04:51 PM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	22/04/09 04:51 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	MKresinske	22/04/09 04:55 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	500Nitro	22/04/09 05:10 AM
Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	shakari	22/04/09 05:18 AM
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Re: When is a leopard a trophy?	NitroX	22/04/09 05:16 AM
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