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Bowhunting Ban...

Uploaded on January 06, 2009

Is this a sign of a trend and should bowhunters be worried? Or just an isolated incident?

http://www.bowsite.com/bowsite/features/articles/africa/2007regs/

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from herbie57_57 wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

It doesn't say anything was banned just that canned hunts were abolished, which really isn't that big of a deal.

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from T wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

Well its not a huge problem and all those animals were dangerous and probably more safely hunted with guns.

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from Clay Cooper wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

Here we go again!

History is repeating itself and we have already forgotten the disaster at Kaibab and turned a blind eye!

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story1.html

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story2.html

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from Jim in Mo wrote 4 years 20 weeks ago

A canned hunt ain't a 'hunt'. Hell I could do that in Missouri.

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from buckhunter wrote 4 years 19 weeks ago

My understanding of the reason behind the archery ban in South Africa and other countries in Africa was that some animals were just too big to die quickly with an arrow. I have two examples I have recently watched on tv. First a guys shoots an elephant then quickly follows up with a rifle to finish him off. Whether you beleive it to be bow hunting or not the question remains, why shoot it with an arrow in the first place. Second, While I saw a giraffe shot with a bow and it took forever to die.

Are some animals too large for arrows? Evidently RSA thinks so.

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from Clay Cooper wrote 4 years 12 weeks ago

That was a isolated incident, however they are trying to do it here for decades!

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from steve182 wrote 4 years 12 weeks ago

Just because you can afford to go to africa to hunt doesn't mean you're a good hunter. Perhaps some of these "slob' hunters are to blame, i don't know. In my home state legislation just passed to EXPAND bowhunting oppurtunities! With a many dems onboard. imagine that.

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from buckhunter wrote 4 years 19 weeks ago

My understanding of the reason behind the archery ban in South Africa and other countries in Africa was that some animals were just too big to die quickly with an arrow. I have two examples I have recently watched on tv. First a guys shoots an elephant then quickly follows up with a rifle to finish him off. Whether you beleive it to be bow hunting or not the question remains, why shoot it with an arrow in the first place. Second, While I saw a giraffe shot with a bow and it took forever to die.

Are some animals too large for arrows? Evidently RSA thinks so.

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from Clay Cooper wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

Here we go again!

History is repeating itself and we have already forgotten the disaster at Kaibab and turned a blind eye!

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story1.html

http://depts.alverno.edu/nsmt/youngcc/research/kaibab/story2.html

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from steve182 wrote 4 years 12 weeks ago

Just because you can afford to go to africa to hunt doesn't mean you're a good hunter. Perhaps some of these "slob' hunters are to blame, i don't know. In my home state legislation just passed to EXPAND bowhunting oppurtunities! With a many dems onboard. imagine that.

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from herbie57_57 wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

It doesn't say anything was banned just that canned hunts were abolished, which really isn't that big of a deal.

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from Jim in Mo wrote 4 years 20 weeks ago

A canned hunt ain't a 'hunt'. Hell I could do that in Missouri.

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from Clay Cooper wrote 4 years 12 weeks ago

That was a isolated incident, however they are trying to do it here for decades!

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from T wrote 4 years 21 weeks ago

Well its not a huge problem and all those animals were dangerous and probably more safely hunted with guns.

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