[I don’t encourage people to visit these sites and “bully” the poor trophy hunters, but if the animal-killers don’t want to receive a lot of angry comments from animal advocates then they shouldn’t post photos of themselves smugly posing with their victims. That’s why child molesters don’t pose with their victims. This article doesn’t make the connection; the only victim they see is the one with the rifle.]
March 27, 2014
DENVER (CBS4)- A picture of a hunter posing on Facebook with her kill, a mountain lion, has put her in the cross hairs of groups that oppose hunting. She claims she’s being harassed online by animal activists- some have threatened her life.
“My first hunting experience was when I was three years old,” said Charisa Argys.
Argys lives in Buena Vista and grew up with a love of hunting after being introduced to the sport by her father.
“It’s always been quality time for us. It’s always been a time when we got to get away,” said Argys.
In February 2013 she hunted and shot a 175-pound male mountain lion. She posted pictures of her kill on the internet.
“I am very proud of what I had accomplished that day,” said Argys.
One year later that picture would result in online threats.
“My picture had been placed on an animal rights activist page,” said Argys.
That picture quickly made the rounds in cyberspace as anti-hunting organizations picked it up and re-posted it, along with hundreds of comments, some of them hurtful.
“They were calling me horrible names. They were saying they wanted to kill me, they wanted to see me dead, they called me fat, they called me ugly, they called me the B-word, they called me the C-word,” said Argys. “There really wasn’t anything they weren’t willing to call me and to say.”
One comment reads, “The only answer is to take out these psychopaths. Problem solved — animals saved.”
Another comment calls for “an eye for an eye.”
And another, “You are a disgrace to those of us who respect life, human and animal. I’d love to hunt YOU and hand YOUR head on my living room wall.”
“You know it was definitely cyberbullying. These were not just threats but I would say they were terroristic threats,” said Argys.
Argys’ shooting and killing the mountain lion is legal in Colorado.
“Absolutely it’s legal. It’s part of wildlife management,” said Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Mike Porras. “You may not like hunting, we understand that. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to express your opinions.”
Porras said Argys is not the first female hunter to be the target of attacks on the internet.
“I mean there are Facebook pages harassing women that have posed with their harvest,” said Porras.
Argys said she did not expect that type of reaction when she posted her picture on the internet, “I had no idea that this type of behavior was going on.”
Argys said Silva Wadhwa, a former reporter with CNBC based in Germany, claims to have started the firestorm.
In a Facebook message to Argys, Wadhwa wrote that she doesn’t agree with trophy killing. She went on to state, “But I do not and will not ever condone or encourage insults, threats or death wishes.”
Argys said the internet comments continue but she vows not to be intimidated, “If I don’t stand up for myself and I don’t take a position on what I feel passionate about how can I expect my children to stand up if it happens to them?”
She also plans to keep hunting.
“It was an extreme hunt and it was well worth it,” said Argys.
According to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Argys hunted her mountain lion in an area where there is an effort to reduce the number of wild cats.
Exposing the Big Game 
Put my comments in the comment section on the article page ……
And what did she expect anyway – people to blow her kisses ? !!!
just remove the word KISSES
Awwwww…..poor thing.
Anyone who can kill a wild animal in cold blood can’t possibly be bothered by anti-hunting activists. Also, get a new script – we see the same accusations time and again, but with no actual facts about who threatened them. And I hope she reconsiders breeding.
Who’s the bully here? Whenever I hear one of these killers whining about being called names, I remember the old adage about “sticks and stones.” SHE’S the one breaking bones, as well as causing suffering and death. But names will never hurt her.
Using rabid hounds to chase a terrified cougar up a tree and then use it for target practice is not hunting. Boone and Crockett would say that the fake hunter used the hounds to gain unfair advantage…like bait or snares. These hunters have become lazy…and FG agencies do little to regulate or use hunter ethics when making wildlife management decisions. Modern FG agencies need reform- and soon.
She doesn’t have a leg to stand on in her argument … She posted it !
Like or dislike. ? Don’t whine !
“I am very proud of what I accomplished that day” she says of the killing of the cougar. A time to relax with my father. Sport? So she admits this is not conservation reasons but sport. No wonder people got up in arms about it.
Unlike Jim, who is a far too decent person, I’d encourage everyone who is able to visit these websites, multiple times, and hurl every abusive comment, insult and threat they can muster. The only available deterrent to outrageously bad, but still legal, misbehavior is to infuse it with some distasteful consequences for the perpetrator. When it is impossible to actually reach out and physically “touch” someone, what alternative does a committed activist have than using their computer to try and discourage further evil acts? Does anyone really think that polite diplomacy is a more effective way of communicating with moral degenerates and changing their orientation? Would that be the preferred approach for dealing with pedophiles and serial killers? My only regret is that somebody has yet to make good on some of those more extreme threats.
Here’s an example of the kind of abusive comments being hurled, only this one was sent here, where the cougar hunter will never read it: “You cowardly psychotic whore. Rot in hell bitch. What a crybaby cowards. You spew the same bs every so often for attention. No one buys it. You slaughter beautiful animals that you are so insanely jealous of then I. You psychosis claim you are proud of your insane self. Really?? You are the evil liar here. People see thru your lies. Your friends lies. Suck it up. If you are so black hearted to murder innocents. Comment shouldn’t bother you. Rotting whore”
Not sure how this kind of venting helps the cause, but I know it feels better to vent sometimes.
Well, although the spelling, grammar, logic, and mailing address may be flawed, at least the writer was motivated by noble sentiment and (were it ever to get to the right address) might beneficially cause some sleepless nights for the recipient!
That’s true.
They just won’t let it go, though……Using activists as live targets…..most likely, because the activists don’t have the guns, weapons of mass destruction, the slob hunters do, including this one, trained to sport kill since the age of 3……read the comments. http://bearingarms.com/german-journalist-triggers-death-threats-against-american-hunter/
This report proves, once again, that “Hunting is the ‘sport’ of Cowards.”