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We wouldn't get a better chance--if we got another chance at all. Chris wedged a pack against the base of a bush helped her steady the rifle over it. The slope was so steep that I crawled below her and braced myself, letting her put her feet against me to keep from sliding down the hill.

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Bullshit! Look at her pants! Do they look like she was just laying a slope so steep she had to be braced to make the shot. I have no doubt she had a hair brush and make up kit handy. But the only way that color of pants would still be clean, in the circumstances described, especailly the knees would if she changed them...Bullshit!

I believe that young lady shoot that animal, I don't doubt that for a second. I just don't think it was done as described.

I asked my wife, who hunts in fair weather, to look this over and she noted the clean pants first thing right off. She also noticed a couple of other things. The hair. The wife says if she were hunting the hair would be tied back to get it out of the way. Then in the second picture of the young lady glassing the hill she is kneeling on something to keep her pants clean. That is not someone who would lay on her belly and get herself dirty to take a shot....Wife says.

Having personally witnessed one of Mr. Boddington hunts and his later report, no strike that. Having read his "story" on that hunt, I know that this "story" is true , just not all the facts are there. That's a shame because the young lady probably hunted fairly hard to get a nice trophy.

Now about transportation to the hunting area. If you use transportation to chase and hunt the animal It would seem pretty cut and dry, it's not ethical.

But it's all to easy to get in a gray area on this transportation thing.

I know that on more than one occasion while driving into an area where we were going to hunt, we have spotted game. Ethically should we have just passed on this game and not got out and pursued it?

If you helicopter to the top of the mountian and set camp then hunt is that ethical? Or how about using a Bush plane to drop you out on the tundra to set camp and hunt, is that ethical?

How about riding around in the mountains on horse back looking for elk. If you spot an elk would be ethical to get off and shoot? I have a problem with this one.

If you take a 747 to Africa to hunt is that ehtical?

Some really gray areas and some very black and whitre areas.

Gryphon I absolutely know what you are talking about. You are 100% correct. If you use any form of transportation to get you in an area I don't see a problem with that. If you use the transportation to hunt or pursue that is not ethical.





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