Georgia hunter threatened over photos with dead elephant speaks out

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An energy executive and safari hunter said he’s received death threats after photos of him with a dead elephant sparked backlash on social media. Mike Jines, a partner with TopGen Energy in Georgia, said his critics are misinterpreting what really happened during a hunt in Zimbabwe, CBS affiliate WGCL-TV reports.

Jines said he and another hunter named Buzz shot two adult elephants in self-defense when they charged them during a hunt in October 2018. “The two elephant that are shown in the photos were shot in self-defense, in an unprovoked charge and both elephants were fully mature cows, not juveniles,” he told WGCL in an email.

Jines said he and his company are now dealing with the fallout and making sure people understand the “actual facts as opposed to the mischaracterization of the information on social media.”

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2 thoughts on “Georgia hunter threatened over photos with dead elephant speaks out

  1. This man’s photos with dead young female elephants are profane. He took two females out of the breeding population, when elephants are threatened with extinction, so that he could have a trophies.

    There would have been no need for self-defense if he wasn’t there with a hunting outfitter, and he would have killed an elephant anyway, if he was there to hunt! It’s not like he was an innocent bystander. So his logic is profane too.

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