Ya that bull in your profile picture is heavy!
Well done my friend
Thank you mind sir. He was my favorite thing from my last trip - I can't wait to see him on my wall. We hiked a lot of freaking miles targeting him specifically.
Ya that bull in your profile picture is heavy!
Well done my friend
The original title was "Does sex matter?", or something to that effect. I thought it was genius.Wait... what? I missed the original title! Darn it all!
Females of the species... I had no qualms filling deer doe tags, back in the day. For a good hide of good color I have no issue with mature sows (brown bears) being hunted. I have shot a lot of cow caribou in my years up here. I will happily take a nanny on my goat hunt this fall. Our hunting unit has a cow moose winter hunt; harvesting one some year is a goal.
Africa? I have killed 2 cow buffalo (cost was the factor) and they were incredibly fun hunts. Both of my zebras were stallions, at the guidance of my PH. And my gemsbok? I requested an old bull. Horn length be damned, I wanted mass - and got it.
Where legal, female or male? Personal choice, IMHO. Oh, and DEFINITELY another vote for "sex is good."
@btheis13 - well that is too bad…because your Title was more interesting then your Post - and now (with No Sex) it’s even more boring.They changed my title! I hope I didn't offend someone....Lord knows everyone gets their undies in a bunch over stupid shit these days.
On the ranch where I grew up that approach was certainly practiced with the Mule Deer herd that roamed the hills.Sometime ago I read about a game management system called Quality Deer Management. I believe it was developed in the US. Basically the theory ran that by concentrating on hunting bucks, a surplus of females was created. That in turn led to a higher percentage of females mating with poor quality males and thus reducing herd quality. As a result game managers encouraged hunters to take larger numbers of females to restore the situation where only dominate males were breeding.
Do any of the African game managers practise this or hasn't it been found necessary?