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Nevada big game hunter facebook1/31/2024 ![]() Woman trying to get her husband’s Crossbow through Zambian custom. “Hunting is good for the community!” Craig insisted, as several tourists looked disdainfully at the hunting group. “I don’t know if they would (not talk to him) but there’s something about elephants so … no elephants.” “My sons told my husband no elephants - if you shoot an elephant we will never talk to you again,” Amy said. While that cackling scavenger is fair game, there is one creature Craig won’t shoot. “Also, it’s not edible for the villagers, so it’s just gonna die.” “We won’t take the hyena back,” Amy said. While Amy was along for the ride - “I’m a vegetarian from Brooklyn and I won’t hunt what I can’t eat so I’m out” - Craig had “won” the right to kill a hyena, even though the couple wouldn’t take the body. I want Craig to stop but … (hunting) is addictive. And then a friend of ours died and so all of his trophies are in our garage. It wasn’t their first time hunting in Africa. The group of four were off for a trek into the remote interior of Zambia. “My husband bid on a hyena - they’re cheap - so we’re here.” The couple with Amy had paid just $3,000 to kill a hippopotamus (“but then there’s the fees, regulations and shipping - so it really adds up!”). “We won this trip at a hunting conference,” Amy said. 18, 2022.I ran into some Americans having an issue at customs at the airport in Lusaka, Zambia, last summer.Ĭraig and Amy (last names withheld), from Western Michigan, and two friends were in the country to go hunting and were stuck at customs until the rifles and crossbows they brought from home were cleared.
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