I find rather disturbing the whole “wow, I have managed to kill something really exceptional and rare” concept.

I feel the same way.� But there is some rationale for hunting trophy game that is large.� In the wild an animal has to be crafty, tough and fast to live to get large enough to be trophy size.� It takes more effort and skill to bring down such a wily animal as compared to a smaller one just learning the ropes.� If they were easy to get, they wouldn’t be trophies.

Having said that, though, since adulthood I’ve never hunted for nor killed anything I didn’t eat, and that includes rattlesnakes (which taste like frog legs, if you’re wondering).� I would never hunt simply for the sport of killing something.� I don’t have a problem, though, if I’m going to eat my catch.

Cheers–

MRE�

That poor animal. At the very least he deserved a single well-placed shot (or maybe two) with a proper gun for a quick, relatively painless death. Needless to say, there are several things I’d like to do to dear old dad and the folks that run those game farms.

Agreed!

Photoshopped.

I TOLD YOU SO!

Hmmm…I don’t see why people have a problem with saying that, it feels quite nice.

Kaz–

You did indeed tell me so, but as I recall it was the size of the hog that you had a problem with.� There is no question that the hog was Photoshopped to make it look a little larger, but that’s not what I think is the hoax.

I thought that this kid ran across this animal and shot it in a mano a mano type confrontation, not that he had a fairly tame animal in a pen that he gunned down.� In my opinion, that is a much more loathsome hoax than a little Photoshoppery.

Cheers–

MRE�