I'm a long time member of JD Jones club called the Handgun Hunters International. In this months news letter a outfitter from Saskatchewan wrote a true story on the demise of Cecil the lion.
He was in the same camp at the same time with his own clients when Cecil the lion was killed.
There was a elephant carcass that died of natural causes 2 1/2 km from the park boundaries. The PH and the hunter seen a lion on the carcass early in the day so they set up a ground blind and came back that night for a lion hunt.
A lion came in and it was shot. When shot they did not see the collar. But it is totally legal to shoot collared animals as long as the collar is turned into the Park officials. Which was done with no problem at that time.
Now get this. The collar is GPS controlled so if anyone is to blame it's the Park Official was supposed to watching the lion's movement.
Nothing was wrong until the do-gooders raised a stink of Cecil the famous lion was no longer in the park for picture taking.
The proper permits were used, there was no gut pile baiting to entice the lion to leave the Park, the collar was turned over to park officials as required by law.
If the local courts are fair nothing will be done.
If I understood it correctly the lion 'feed the village'. The permit trophy fees is split between the outfitter, government, and the village area. One of the trackers in camp that week had a relative killed by a elephant and no do-gooders even raised a word of protest.
As Paul Harvey would say 'now that's the rest of the story'.
He was in the same camp at the same time with his own clients when Cecil the lion was killed.
There was a elephant carcass that died of natural causes 2 1/2 km from the park boundaries. The PH and the hunter seen a lion on the carcass early in the day so they set up a ground blind and came back that night for a lion hunt.
A lion came in and it was shot. When shot they did not see the collar. But it is totally legal to shoot collared animals as long as the collar is turned into the Park officials. Which was done with no problem at that time.
Now get this. The collar is GPS controlled so if anyone is to blame it's the Park Official was supposed to watching the lion's movement.
Nothing was wrong until the do-gooders raised a stink of Cecil the famous lion was no longer in the park for picture taking.
The proper permits were used, there was no gut pile baiting to entice the lion to leave the Park, the collar was turned over to park officials as required by law.
If the local courts are fair nothing will be done.
If I understood it correctly the lion 'feed the village'. The permit trophy fees is split between the outfitter, government, and the village area. One of the trackers in camp that week had a relative killed by a elephant and no do-gooders even raised a word of protest.
As Paul Harvey would say 'now that's the rest of the story'.
