Bush Baby
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How many of you guys shoot females? (I mean female animals – I know most of us know of at least one real b*#$%h we’d love to shoot, not to mention a certain Saudi extremist !)
Is there a still feeling around that it is not ‘cool’ to shoot the females of a species, or has the principles of game management finally prevailed – where a percentage of everything has to be removed, in order to maintain sex ratios.
Over here, those people who are only hunting for meat often shoot females, as they cost a lot less than males do – sometimes up to half – so instead of shooting say one Kudu bull and one Impala ram, you could go and shoot a Kudu cow and maybe three Impala ewes and a ram for the same cost.
Which means on a five day hunt you’re out hunting every day, and not sitting around for three or four days because you got both your males on the first or second day – and have now used up your budget.
As much as we all like just being in the great outdoors – what we are there for at the end of the day is to hunt.
Having said that though, I must say that there is still a stigma for some people here about shooting females - probably a carry over from granddad’s teachings – as our hunting season covers about 5 months it is inevitable that some females are going to be in the early to middle stages of pregnancy, and removing a foetus is never pleasant, I’m sure this puts many people off.
Bush baby
Is there a still feeling around that it is not ‘cool’ to shoot the females of a species, or has the principles of game management finally prevailed – where a percentage of everything has to be removed, in order to maintain sex ratios.
Over here, those people who are only hunting for meat often shoot females, as they cost a lot less than males do – sometimes up to half – so instead of shooting say one Kudu bull and one Impala ram, you could go and shoot a Kudu cow and maybe three Impala ewes and a ram for the same cost.
Which means on a five day hunt you’re out hunting every day, and not sitting around for three or four days because you got both your males on the first or second day – and have now used up your budget.
As much as we all like just being in the great outdoors – what we are there for at the end of the day is to hunt.
Having said that though, I must say that there is still a stigma for some people here about shooting females - probably a carry over from granddad’s teachings – as our hunting season covers about 5 months it is inevitable that some females are going to be in the early to middle stages of pregnancy, and removing a foetus is never pleasant, I’m sure this puts many people off.
Bush baby
