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Hunter Paid $275 bounty for the Head of a
Black Hawaiian Ram.
After a guide drove the ram directly into the path of his client, the hunter shot the trapped animal with an arrow at point-blank range. The wounded ram, with an arrow sticking out of his hindquarters and shaking uncontrollably, backed up against the fence that forced him to stay close to his killers. A shot to the head might have meant a quick kill, but would have spoiled the eventual trophy. So the hunter repeatedly took aim at the ram's body, and the animal writhed in pain for four minutes before dying. (To Love or Kill: Man vs. Animal," America Undercover, Home Box Office, April 1996)


" most rank-and-file hunters cannot afford hundreds of dollars per trophy, canned hunts have become the privileged playgrounds of the wealthy elite.
Doctors and lawyers trek from the suburbs for a weekend killing spree, and high-priced lobbyists entertain politicians on shooting preserves. Canned hunting preserves have begun to rival golf courses as favorite landscapes while wheeling and dealing.
President George Bush celebrated his victory after the 1988 election at the Lazy F Ranch near Beeville, Texas.
"These aren't animals, these are wild quail," he later responded to criticism. President Bush apparently never studied the Animal Kingdom, and has an odd definition of "wild" that includes captive birds who were hand-fed and raised in pens. President Bill Clinton hunted on shooting preserves during his presidency. Two days after Christmas in 1993, President Clinton killed a captive-bred mallard duck on a Maryland shooting preserve owned by lobbyist John W. Tieder, Jr. Tieder is the treasurer of DUCPAC, a pro-hunting political action committee that has given over $35,000 in campaign contributions to political candidates.

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Thanks for your comments YLL. It does seem like most regular
hunters are against this sort of thing too. They think "canned
hunts" give American hunters a bad name, & they're right.

Thanks Kater for volunteering to write again & others for their
concern.

2nd Amendment rights aside, I don't see how anyone can call
shooting fenced or tethered animals a hunt at all. It's legalized
slaughter and it's wrong. IMO. Liz.