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The hunt is on to defame all trophy hunters

Sabrina Corgatelli posted this photo on her Facebook page July 25, with the comment: "Day #2 I got a amazing old Giraffe. Such a amazing animal!! I couldn't be any happier!! My emotion after getting him was a feeling I will never forget!!!" (Sabrina Corgatelli / Facebook)
Sabrina Corgatelli posted this photo on her Facebook page July 25, with the comment: "Day #2 I got a amazing old Giraffe. Such a amazing animal!! I couldn't be any happier!! My emotion after getting him was a feeling I will never forget!!!" (Sabrina Corgatelli / Facebook)

HUNTING -- It's a lot like a witch hunt.

Fueled by social media and anger over the boneheaded bowhunter killing of Cecil the tourist-attraction lion in Zimbabwe, the heat is being applied to every hunter who's posed with a critter, big or small, legal or illegal.   Myths and misunderstanding are being spread.

Anti-hunting groups are loving this.

In the case of an Idaho State University staffer being called out for posing with some African trophies, I like the fact that the anti-hunters can't use their chant that the hunting was a way of proving manhood.  The hunter is a woman.  She did nothing illegal.

She's killed fewer critters in her life than McDonalds sacrifices in an hour.

 



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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