Walt Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota, and his bow and arrow are about to have an interesting week

For the record, the abortion stuff was vestigial from a deleted snarky response. I meant the Obamacare line to be on its own, and it was in complete good humor. Looks like you took it that way, but just being sure.

 

It probably says something about the change in general attitude toward and perspective on hunting over the years that the two main people cited here as examples of big-game hunters (Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt) were born in the 1800s.

 

I concede that there has been a "change in general attitude toward and perspective on hunting over the years."

When history dissects this episode, however, it's not going to be the Good Doctor that will receive the bulk of the condemnation.

 

You've never come across a small-town newspaper during hunting season, have you?

 

We have run plenty of dead critter photos with nary a complaint at a pretty big paper.

One complaint I remember was on a story our outdoors writer did on locals who went on this dove hunt in South America where the guys sawy they shot thousands of doves over a couple days.

Pretty ridiculous hunt. If true, the doves must just blaken the skies and they just blast away.

Fellas didn't eat the doves but the folks who arranged it supposedly gave the birds to locals to eat, which I am not sure I buy.

Sounds like a completely unsporting excuse to blast away for a weekend.

 

I'm sure I'm completely wrong, but I don't understand the challenge of shooting a big, slow target like an elephant or a lion.

Hit a fucking rabbit hauling ass. That impresses me.

 

The challenge might be to fire enough shots to down it before it tramples or mauls you.

BTW, lions aren't slow-moving at all (unless they're wearing Honolulu blue and silver).

 

It's about the trophy, not the challenge. A rabbit head doesn't look nearly as impressive hanging above the fireplace.

 

Cecil certainly would've had that thought while chasing down a panicked zebra or gnawing on the leg of a tribesman. No doubt.

 

The Africans aren't the ones in hysterics. PETA America is. Further proof that mental health issues are the No. 1 problem in American society.

 

Rabbit is good eating, not mounting.

 

Who will, Cecil? I hate this blame the victim mentality.