#1737590 - 01/20/10 09:08 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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baller_9
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I'd shoot one as long as I wasn't the one paying the bill!
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#1738557 - 01/21/10 01:47 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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My buddy went over there three times in the 80s, when he was making a giant pile of money as a commodities broker during the Reagan years. One of his hunts cost about $5,000 for the hunt, kill fees, and airfare. The taxidermy bill was $12,000.
Taxidermy is a black hole for money. If at all possible I will have all heads shipped home. 2 of my best friends are Taxidermist. Thats sad considering I dont even mount any of my deer anymore! lol
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#1738763 - 01/21/10 04:06 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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bowriter
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A plains game hunt is relatively cheap, maybe $4000. Now add in airfare and export and taxidermy. You just spent $15,000.
Not true from what I have researched.
okay.
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#1738774 - 01/21/10 04:11 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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A plains game hunt is relatively cheap, maybe $4000. Now add in airfare and export and taxidermy. You just spent $15,000.
Not true from what I have researched. okay.
LOL WELL
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#1739657 - 01/21/10 10:02 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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taximan
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I asked a client bout the cost if his hunt and his african hunt was just barely under $14,000 from start to finish. Killed kudu, gemsbok, red hartebeast, blue wildebeest, eland, springbuck,and impala. He also added a giraffe once he was over there. his costs include hunt, airfare, 15% namibia tax, packaging/treating hides/documentation for export, taxidermy, and gratuities.....Lots to consider
His hunt was last aug.
as for me, I would love to have a zibra mounted in my foyer, beautiful animals, and since all the meat goes to the local tribes i see nothing wrong with killin one.
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#1739746 - 01/21/10 11:42 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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bowriter
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I'll never hunt Africa..no desire to shoot anything there...
There are about 30 things I would like to shoot there...the sumbitches that were shooting at me. 
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#1740410 - 01/22/10 11:08 AM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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plinker22
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Not even on my bucket list!
Whitetail and Speedgoat.
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#1741423 - 01/22/10 09:31 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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LA man
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ide shoot it, and i bet my wife could cook some good vittles out of it
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#1741691 - 01/23/10 06:47 AM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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Efhutton
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Can't figure out why anyone would have the desire to shoot a zebra or WALK UP TO an elephant and shoot it between the eyes. Can't even watch so called elephant hunting on TV
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#1742355 - 01/23/10 05:03 PM
Re: They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
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megalomaniac
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No desire to shoot any animal if it doesn't grow horns on it's head. And no desire to shoot many animals that do have horns.
I could care less about zebra, lion, buffalo, hippo, croc, warthog, hartebeest, wildebeest, leopard, etc. Elsewhere, no desire for bears, mtn lion, bobcats, even moose.
But I do want a gemsbock (I apply every year for them in New Mexico), kudu, eland.
I really, really want to go on a mountain sheep hunt- but I know I'll never get drawn or be able to afford a tag outside the draw.
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