Enough of this championing one type of hunter over the other already! It just helps perpetuate the myth of the “ethical hunter.” You’re more likely to see a UFO land in the middle of a crop circle than to meet a hunter who is truly ethical to the animals he kills. How can tracking down an inoffensive creature and blasting it out of existence ever really be ethical anyway? No matter how a hunter may rationalize, or claim to give thanks to the animal’s spirit, the dying will never see their killer’s acts as the least bit honorable.
I’m sure Ted Nugent considers himself an ethical hunter. Hell, Ted Bundy likely thought himself an ethical serial killer. But to their victims they’re just murderous slobs. Likewise, Teddy Roosevelt—who, in his two-volume African Game Trails, lovingly muses over shooting elephants, hippos, buffaloes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, giraffes, zebras, hartebeest, impalas, pigs…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Such a great piece, Jim!! I am writing 2 letters (or Op-eds this week about the lies the hunting industry perpetuates, especially regarding “the millions they bring in for conservation”–crap, which is touted by our darling of many Dems and liberals: Sen (D) Martin Heinrich, Trophy Hunter, who has just helped “unlock” the Sabinoso up Northern NM, a real gem I hear, but now open to trophy hunters, and most likely trappers as well.