While their teenage friends spend time texting pals and planning their next clothes shopping trip, 'twisted sisters' Sara and Katey Brandenburg are more likely to be taking aim at their next trophy animal with a high-powered rifle.
I don't get how shooting Grizzlies and Polar Bears is legal. Blows my mind.
It's not legal in the United States.
I grew up hunting, it sustained us much of my youth. I believe in hunting as an effective game management tool and as a part of North American heritage, but I'm not sold on hunting for trophies.
Knowing as much as I do about Grizzlies, I could never shoot one unless it was going to maul me. I have no interest in killing African animals. What happened to the Zebra meat? Was it put to good use?
There are plenty of deer, elk, moose, sheep and black bears out there in the Rockies and they are delicious. Why go Griz?
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Kind of sad to see all those "exotic" animals dead. Grizzly bears and polar bears are really nature's magic.
I can't see the point, but it sounds like from the article that they put all the meat to good use. They haven't did ANYTHING illegal. I can't see why some people are slamming on them. Slam on the government if you must, but this family is breaking no laws.
Hunting with rifles is garbage. Especially when hunting for "trophies".
Do you know what would make a great trophy, a great story and make you feel like a bad ass? Hunting one of these animals down with a knife or similar hand weapon. Heck, even a bow and arrow is better. To me, getting within 100 yards of and animal that can't see you and essentially pushing a button to kill it isn't much for "sport", it's like a man beating a child. David vs. Goliath every time. Shoot at a target or a skeet.
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Hunting with rifles is garbage. Especially when hunting for "trophies".
Do you know what would make a great trophy, a great story and make you feel like a bad ass? Hunting one of these animals down with a knife or similar hand weapon. Heck, even a bow and arrow is better. To me, getting within 100 yards of and animal that can't see you and essentially pushing a button to kill it isn't much for "sport", it's like a man beating a child. David vs. Goliath every time. Shoot at a target or a skeet.
I'm not arguing your sentiment, but it is definitely not THAT easy. Not even close.
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Hunting with rifles is garbage. Especially when hunting for "trophies".
Do you know what would make a great trophy, a great story and make you feel like a bad ass? Hunting one of these animals down with a knife or similar hand weapon. Heck, even a bow and arrow is better. To me, getting within 100 yards of and animal that can't see you and essentially pushing a button to kill it isn't much for "sport", it's like a man beating a child. David vs. Goliath every time. Shoot at a target or a skeet.
I agree for the most part. I certainly could do any of this rifle or not and it does take a huge element of patience, skill and yeah courage to hunt. Hunting is mostly a sport that tests the hunter. The hunted are not supposed to 'win'.
it does take a huge element of patience, skill and yeah courage
Patience, yeah. But these trophy hunters are usually led in my guides that know the land very well, and the habits of the animals in the area. Its only a matter of time, but its almost a gurantee.
Courage? Come on.
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I hate people that hunt for trophies. Senseless killing. Even more so when they are animals like grizzlies or polar bears. Those animals are worthy of a lot of respect. What does killing and stuffing them achieve? Shows our dominance over them? You can just look into all the declining populations for that.
You want trophies? Go shoot those animals, but with a camera.
I love bears, hurts to see them shot and killed when many (especially polar) have a rough time these days as it is.
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My father hunts, and I grew up eating moose and deer meat.
Hunting for sport disgusts me. I don't hunt, but I have been out once or twice. It's not as easy as some are making it out to be, however I do agree with a lot of the opinions here. If you want to hunt something use a bow thats tough. Getting a wimpy deer with a high powered rifle, not so much....
The pictures in that article annoyed the hell out of me.
I have little respect for the concept of trophy hunting. Its a pointless ego driven exercise, and not much of a sport or a trophy to be proud of since your basically shooting the animal from several hundred yards away with a high powered rifle.
I had a friend who showed me his trophy, and I asked him what the closest was that he got to his victim. When he told me it as about 75 yards, I told him that he was a wuss, and this whole room was a waste of life.
If your going to show me a trophy, it better have been a life and death struggle, or a kill that I can admire, ie bow and arrow.
I always said that I would have no problem killing a person in war because the odds are fairly equal. But shooting an animal that can't fire back is absolutely lame.
How would humans feel if Bears took pictures of their prey and then didn't bother eating their bodies?
There's only two reasons to kill an animal, either to eat it, or to protect yourself or someone else. We also tend to forget that when we enter the woods, we're in their territory.
What these girls did isn't sport, its not all that skilled when you use a telescopic sniper site, its lame and wasteful.
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I come from a family of hunters and seeing all the pics of their kills is really too bad. You get a clear sense that they are going for exotic animals that won't get used for much other than to be stuffed for show. To these people it is fine though, thats how their surroundings have shaped them to be and its something they do.
I know some teenage to adult women that will hunt, skin and clean many Albertan animals, but the animal is always killed and used in the proper ways.
I have a freezer full of elk and deer as we speak, it is quite delicious, and when it gets depleted we will fill it back up.
My brother and dad went hunting in South Africa, killed some deer species and a wild boar. Every bit of the meat and body got used up by the group and some accompanying tribes. If you set it up right, it gets consumed and is not wasteful.
*additional note: bear is a very hard animal to eat, the fat and connective tissue is hard to deal with.
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