“Bred simply to be shot”: Inside America’s exotic hunting industry

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Last Updated Jun 9, 2019 9:05 PM EDT

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El Dorado, Texas — The evening before their wildebeest hunt was set to start, Tess Talley and her husband Andrew arrived at the 5 Star Outfitters hunting ranch later than planned. They had driven more slowly for the final stretch of their six-hour drive from Dallas; as darkness fell, they worried about hitting deer.

“We’ve gotten to know Koby from our last time here,” Talley said of ranch owner Koby Howell. Talley, an avid trophy hunter from Kentucky who now lives in Texas, became infamous when a picture she posted of a giraffe she killed in South Africa went viral in June 2018. She still receives death threats.

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