Pitbulldatnoyd
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I am a birder and fanatical hunting book collector. I have been reading hunting books for over 40 years. As a child I was not allowed to read hunting books, because my mother disapproved despite her stylish 1950s ivory and leopard skin bangles, but Jim Corbett sparked the fire. I now have about 1,000 sporting books, so you can see how that parental ban worked out. Most of the books have to do with Africa, then comes India and the Mountains, and also some North American and British Foxhunting titles. I love them all.
As a female I have encountered disdain and worse for my sporting tastes. I have never been able to afford a hunting trip anywhere, and I'm now too old and farty to be anyone's Safari Chick, but I have made several extended trips to Africa to look at birds and photograph leopards. Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa and Zambia, plus Lesotho. I hope I can visit Africa again. My last trip to Zambia was in 2013.
I love how the antis run out of argument and start with the ad hominem middle school insults because they cannot respond to facts and on the ground knowledge. I have talked to actual Africans who have to farm on the edges of national parks and asked them how do they deal with parades of elephant exiting the park on a nightly basis to forage in their cultivations. How do they manage to grow Anything? Do they ever get compensation for these invasions? The FB whinging about female hunters is really ridiculous. When the Friends of Friends pop up on my feed to complain about African hunting, I swat them down with facts and they come back with stuff like, "Your eyes must be brown." Really mature eh? These are grown women. I have no respect for stupid.
I read both old and new books and love the Safari Press and Trophy Room books in particular. Ian Nyschen's Months of the Sun is the best book ever issued by Safari Press. Hugo Seia's Mundjamba the Elephant Mountain is Trophy Room's best. I just finished reading Agnes Herbert's Two Dianas in Somaliland. That has to be one of the best books I have ever read. I waited many decades to get my hands on that book. Thanks, ABE!
I love this site for the on-the-ground updates on conditions in my favourite African countries. I enjoy the debates on game breeding and lions on order hunting. Thank you and don't forget about the beautiful African birds. - Kim Edwin
As a female I have encountered disdain and worse for my sporting tastes. I have never been able to afford a hunting trip anywhere, and I'm now too old and farty to be anyone's Safari Chick, but I have made several extended trips to Africa to look at birds and photograph leopards. Ghana, Ethiopia, South Africa and Zambia, plus Lesotho. I hope I can visit Africa again. My last trip to Zambia was in 2013.
I love how the antis run out of argument and start with the ad hominem middle school insults because they cannot respond to facts and on the ground knowledge. I have talked to actual Africans who have to farm on the edges of national parks and asked them how do they deal with parades of elephant exiting the park on a nightly basis to forage in their cultivations. How do they manage to grow Anything? Do they ever get compensation for these invasions? The FB whinging about female hunters is really ridiculous. When the Friends of Friends pop up on my feed to complain about African hunting, I swat them down with facts and they come back with stuff like, "Your eyes must be brown." Really mature eh? These are grown women. I have no respect for stupid.
I read both old and new books and love the Safari Press and Trophy Room books in particular. Ian Nyschen's Months of the Sun is the best book ever issued by Safari Press. Hugo Seia's Mundjamba the Elephant Mountain is Trophy Room's best. I just finished reading Agnes Herbert's Two Dianas in Somaliland. That has to be one of the best books I have ever read. I waited many decades to get my hands on that book. Thanks, ABE!
I love this site for the on-the-ground updates on conditions in my favourite African countries. I enjoy the debates on game breeding and lions on order hunting. Thank you and don't forget about the beautiful African birds. - Kim Edwin
