Thread: New world record

I sent the video link to my (well read) US mate and here's what he had to say:

" There is a gradual shift in the thinking on this in the US. Once widely criticized, fee-based high-fence hunting, including for imported exotics, is slowly beginning to be seen as another element in the overall conservation tool kit. Even the anti-hunters here are beginning to accept the truth that controlled hunting, in Africa, the US, etc. can be economically viable to the landowners and actually promotes the long term survivability of game (and non-game) species against the onslaught of relentless habitat loss. The downside here is as ever more quality hunting property is leased exclusively for pay-to-hunt, it is much harder for the working class citizen to find decent areas to even meat hunt as has been done traditionally for generations. The fear, and from the trending it is real, is that the US is morphing into the European model where hunting is largely tailored to the well-heeled at the expense of the common man."