Just about every time I travel, I seem to wind up in a conversation with an anti-hunter, or someone who doesn’t think hunting is “politically correct”. And that’s OK. It’s a free country, and people are entitled to their opinions. So let’s step back for a moment, take the emotion out of the issue, and analyze the validity of just one area of hunting on a purely economic basis. The whitetail deer; the most prevalent big game species in the North America. Everyone agrees we

Throughout history, people have been ridiculed for ideas that were simply ahead of their time: Galileo, Columbus, and Elvis Presley come to mind. Occasionally, certain ideas would be better to have been left on the drawing board: the Edsel, New Coke, the Susan B. Anthony dollar. And sometimes, people have ideas that are, well, just plain stupid, but I’ll let you be the judge. Those wacky folks at PETA, you know, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, have proposed t

fool noun a person who lacks good sense or judgment : a stupid or silly person stupid noun not intelligent : having or showing a lack of ability to learn and understand things -Merriam Webster dictionary One of my pet peeves is celebrities lecturing us common folk upon topics on which they have no real expertise: Gwenyth Paltrow, Bob Barker, The Dixie Chicks; you remember; like Rosie O’Donnell preaching to America about family values or a morbidly obese Michael Moore lect

The recent killing of Cecil the lion created an unusually virulent outrage. As a television producer who has traveled to Africa over forty times to shoot our television series, Safari Hunter’s Journal for Sportsman Channel, I have a unique insight as to how this hunt ultimately went wrong and why so many are so upset about it. First, the facts: A lion was shot and wounded on private property in Zimbabwe. It was lured from the adjacent National Park by bait(s) set out by the

The First Amendment of our Constitution protects…among other things, the freedom of speech, which is followed by, wait for it... the Second Amendment: the right to bear arms. I do not think that is a coincidence. And recently in Texas, the wisdom of that 1st & 2nd Amendment pairing played out before our eyes on the evening news. You may remember, a pair of wanna-be jihadists, a pair of radicalized Islamist roommates from Phoenix, attempted to attack a cartoon drawing contes

The poster boy of conservation success stories of the 20th Century is most definitely the white rhino, recovering from less than 2 dozen head in 1900, to over 17,000 today. But today, poaching for rhino horn is decimating the species, to such a degree that if it continues at this rate, the rhino will be gone in within the next decade. In 2010, 333 rhinos were poached. The number grew to 448 in 2011 and 668 in 2012, and in 2013, poachers slaughtered 1000 rhinos, all record

The herd was big; maybe 200 animals. It was evening now, and they were beginning to stir after bedding through the heat of the African day. The air so close to this many animals was pungent, reminiscent of an Oklahoma cattle sale barn. But this wasn't Oklahoma, and this herd only resembled cattle in a distant-cousin kind of way. These were cape buffalo, the most aggressive and dangerous of Africa's famed Big Five. And as the herd began moving our direction at 40 meters