Recent content by Hank2211

I'm afraid I don't understand your post. Grand juries are made up of "the people" so what do they have to do with the "Judicial cesspool"? And if a prosecutor can't get a "true bill" from a grand jury (or from the people), doesn't that say more about the case than about the accused? Don't get...

I should have added that it also depends on who owned the animal you shot (in arms, like South Africa, where wildlife is owned by individuals). If the outfitter has bought an animal from a farmer, for example, and brought the hunter to the property, the farmer may insist on being paid...

I believe it varies, depending in great part on the operator, the client and how well the client is known, and the type of hunt. It’s one thing to wait on some trophy fees for plains game, and another thing to wait on a trophy fee for an elephant or a lion, especially if the client isn’t well...

I think the issue isn’t that the outfitter was looking for a surcharge on the credit card - as many have pointed out, this has become quite common, although the amount here is, again as most say, over the top. I think the issue was that the outfitter said that the surcharge was required by law...

I assume many if not all SCI members received an “SCI News” email yesterday. There was one item in the email which I thought was interesting, from a number of perspectives. A member told SCI he tried to pay for a hunt in South Africa with a credit card and his outfitter told him there was a...

Unless the hotel has its own rules, there are no laws which would regulate the storage of your firearms in your hotel room in Canada (other than the usual safe storage rules which apply everywhere).

Not everything is part of a conspiracy . . .

Lucky for you. Not so lucky for the local ratepayers.

I understand your point, but for a range of reasons (only one of them religious), I could not disagree more. If people want to go out “on their own terms”, there was (in a practical sense) nothing from stopping them before MAID because law. You want to kill yourself? If I knew you, I would...

With respect, perhaps you need to travel more. I’ve been to a majority of the countries in the world and I have yet to find a place I would rather live (taking winter out of the equation!). I would also respectfully request that the name you brought up be stricken from the vocabularies of...

To paraphrase Queen Gertrude in Hamnlet, methinks you doth protest too much. I never said anything about Washington or President Trump. I am a guest in the US (of my wife) at the moment, and polite guests don’t comment on things which are none of their business. And I try to be a polite guest...

Canada is going down the toilet?!!! Seriously, you need to come spend some time here. We have our issues, Lord knows, but the toilet isn’t one of them.

There are indeed parts of Canada and the US which have crime rates which are more or less the same. On the other hand, while it’s easy to rail at statistics (as people tend to do when they don’t much like what the statistics demonstrate), taking just murder rates as an example of serious crime...

That’s a good thing, no question at all. But . . . what would you trade - or give up - in exchange for that kind of safety?

Agreed. I began my post by agreeing that DC needed to be cleaned up (as do lots of other places). I have no opinion - since I don’t live there or anywhere near there (summering in the Finger Lakes doesn’t count) - who should do the cleaning up. That’s for those who have a dog in the hunt to...