[Freytown]

<span style="font-style: italic">A 12-year-old girl who likes to hunt big game with her father sparked an online firestorm after posting photos of herself online posing with a giraffe and a zebra that she killed with the help of her dad.</span>

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Good for her.............in our politically correct world.

 

[TrashPanda]

Glad she stands up for her hunting and great to see a youngster that involved in hunting.

I have a zebra hide draped over my sofa in my trophy room and the only reason I didn't shoot a giraffe was that my ceilings are too low for the mount. I had a chance at a whopper and would have loved to have been able to take it. Giraffe are very tough to bring down and a great source of meat which is very good.

People are just plain uninformed. Zebra and giraffe are just like any other animal that needs to be managed. Most giraffe that are harvested are older ones that don't have long anyway.

 

[WOL]

Any adult that ridicules a child is not very sporting either. That's the height of cowardice. Spurred on by equal parts ignorance and selfishness.

 

[Birch812]

Bambi Syndrome strikes again. To many people who saw The Lion King reacted to the little girls Facebook page.
Personally I would rather had shot both with a camera, since it is not something I would be willing to try and eat, but it appears she harvested them legally and gave the meat to a good cause why should she be criticized?
Funny how some human beings find it OK to threaten her life yet she was wrong to shoot a animal.
Priorities, Priorities, Priorities

 

[Adam]

Glad she stands up for her hunting and great to see a youngster that involved in hunting.

I have a zebra hide draped over my sofa in my trophy room and the only reason I didn't shoot a giraffe was that my ceilings are too low for the mount. I had a chance at a whopper and would have loved to have been able to take it. Giraffe are very tough to bring down and a great source of meat which is very good.

People are just plain uninformed. Zebra and giraffe are just like any other animal that needs to be managed. Most giraffe that are harvested are older ones that don't have long anyway.

I would LOVE a zebra rug to go along with the kudu, gemsbok, nyala, and cape buffalo that I also hope to take some day...

 

[HD1969]

Kudu -

I used to work for a guy that hunted Africa.
He showed me the list of game available and their associated price tags...

Just curious - do you know much it would cost the hunter to harvest a giraffe??

 

[Birch812]

Kudu -

I used to work for a guy that hunted Africa.
He showed me the list of game available and their associated price tags...

Just curious - do you know much it would cost the hunter to harvest a giraffe??

I bet the whole hunt would be around 10K for flight, lodging, guide and then animal fee.

 

[TrashPanda]

Kudu -

I used to work for a guy that hunted Africa.
He showed me the list of game available and their associated price tags...

Just curious - do you know much it would cost the hunter to harvest a giraffe??

Standard price for a giraffe right now is around $4,000-$5,000 just for the trophy fee. You will find higher and lower, but that's around average. But that's just the trophy fee. Doesn't count the daily rate and as stated already, the flight, the dip and ship to get it home and a number of other things.
If you went on a standard 6 to 7 day safari and shot the usual game species plus the giraffe, you'd be looking in your rear view mirror at $10,000 easy.

The one I could have taken was about 8 years ago and they offered it to me for $2,500. And it was a WHOPPER. Bigger than any I'd seen until that point, or since.

 

[TrashPanda]

I would LOVE a zebra rug to go along with the kudu, gemsbok, nyala, and cape buffalo that I also hope to take some day...

In my opinion, zebra are one of the toughest animals over there. I would rank them right up there with gemsbok and blue wildebeast.
I can't imagine going to Africa and not shooting a kudu. I've been very fortunate and have gotten one every time I went and consider them to be the most magnificent animal there. To me, kudu, along with impala, are the symbols of Africa when it comes to plains game.

 

[Adam]

I'm a huge Peter Capstick fan (see my signature) and while he doesn't write much about hunting plains game, I couldn't imagine not hunting kudu either.

 

[TrashPanda]

The last time went, I read "Death in the Long Grass" on the flights. Capstick is a piece of work for sure.

 

[WOL]

Kudu is on my wish list. Most beautiful shoulder mount.....besides a nice whitetail.

 

[loridr]

I'm a huge Peter Capstick fan (see my signature) and while he doesn't write much about hunting plains game, I couldn't imagine not hunting kudu either.

I have all of his books in hardcopy.

 

[Adam]

The last time went, I read "Death in the Long
Grass" on the flights. Capstick is a piece of work for sure.

LOL He is. I would've loved to have met him. He apparently has some videos somewhere. I'd like to see them.

I have all of his books in hardcopy. thumbs

I have right around half, probably more. My goal is to get all of them. As soon as I get one, I can't put it down and then I'm disappointed that I read it in 3 days and don't have more.

 

[bobcat1]

I remember I was out hunting with my Daughter under the mentor Program. We went to a gas station to get some drinks afterwards and a car load of punk kids drove buy and said "don't fricken kill anything". My Daughter looked at me and said "Daddy those were bad guys" Never bothered her too much. Wanted to chase them and give them a piece of my mind saying things when my Daughter was with me. She said, "Daddy, don't be like them." The nerve of some people.

 

[Marc Ret]

I thoroughly enjoy Capstick and have many of his books. That said, a decade ago I found myself in Zimbabwe for reasons other than hunting. While there, I was befriended by a PH in Bulawayo who offered to take me out for the day on his personal little piece of property which turned out to be roughly 10,000 acres in size. During the course of the day, Capstick came up. I'll always remember his comment on those who've read Capstick's writings and come to Africa- "they all think there's a pizzed off Buffalo with murder in his eyes waiting to kill you behind every tree here!" I don't think he held him in very high regard...

 

[Adam]

I'll always remember his comment on those who've read Capstick's writings and come to Africa- "they all think there's a pizzed off Buffalo with murder in his eyes waiting to kill you behind every tree here!" I don't think he held him in very high regard...

I'm sure a lot of adventure seekers who take to his writing are like that. I just assumed after decades spent in the bush, he's seen some things. I've never had the impression your friend had, but can see why others would.

Africa seems like a wild, peaceful, beautiful place. I hope I make it to the dark continent one day...

 

[TrashPanda]

I never got the impression that people expected a buff behind every tree. In some areas, they are downright rare.
But I can assure you this for fact. When you do get even bluff charged by a buff, it WILL get your ticker pumping.

Even more so, get flat out charged by an elephant. Nothing strikes fear in me like an elephant. I don't care what anyone writes, the stuff happens.

 

[bohunr]

i heard that girl received death threats. if that is true, some law enforcement agency should be notified so the person making the threats can be found and charged.

 

[TrashPanda]

If there were in fact death threats, I would be shocked if it were not looked into by the law. That's a shame for a 12 year old to endure that.