“When I look at an elephant, I feel one thing: awe,” Liz Bennett writes in an email soliciting funds for the Wildlife Conservation Society. “Awe at their massive size, beauty, and intelligence. It hurts to imagine a world without them. And I’m guessing you feel the same way, Robert.” The Vice President of Species Conservation is not wrong . . .
Elephants are awesome. I approve of her org’s efforts to stop poachers. Only it reminds me of the joke about the drunk guy looking for his car keys under a streetlamp because the light’s better.
I’m a firm believer that licensed elephant hunting is the best way to preserve and protect the species. Assuming at least some of the money from elephant hunting (including legal ivory sales) goes to the native population, or at least the meat, the practice incentivizes people living with the creatures to protect them as a valuable resource.
Somehow I don’t think Ms. Bennett agrees. Or could agree publicly if she did.
Anyway, as much as I support elephant hunting, I don’t think I could pull the trigger on one. Not because I’d be worried about political correctness or becoming pachyderm toe-jam. Because I’d have a hard time killing something I love, admire and respect. (It’s a short list but elephants are on it.)
Could you shoot an elephant?
Well finally. Amirite!?
No. I prefer shooting poachers instead.
Pfht. I could shoot anything or anyone if I had to. I just don’t care for trophy hunting, so I have no reason to shoot an elephant. But if you drop me in a situation with a rampaging elephant like Tyke, the critter that went on a rampage in Honolulu back in the 90s then I’ll be just fine with dropping boxes of bullets into one of them.
I really felt for that animal. My son got loose from me at a circus when he was 3. He wound up face to face with a large female elephant. It was amazing to watch how careful she was around him. At one point she had her trunk wrapped around him in what I assume was a hug.
I really feel that elephants should not be in a circus or a zoo.
Having said that. A human life is of more value than an animal. Any animal. Even an endangered species. It would break my heart, and bear in mind that I have shot at people, to shoot an elephant. But I would drop jumbo in a second if a human was at risk.
Personally, no I couldn’t, unless it was sick or wounded and suffering without the possibility of being saved. I understand the concept and importance of thinning the heard of certain wildlife for conservation of species, but I’ll leave that to the hunting professionals.
Shoot it, eat it, wear the hyde, put the head on the wall, legally sell the ivory, and gladly pay for the privilege… that is if I could afford the privilege to begin with. Otherwise, poacher huntin sounds like a fun time too.
Says that it ships with an SR9/Security 9 magwell. I’m inferring that means the Security 9 uses SR magazines.
I kinda really want this.
Oooh! Yes please!
I want it and I want it now!
This is the most exciting firearm I have seen in quite some time. Nice job, Ruger!
Not interested.
Anybody else miss the days when you could order a Remington 700 trigger from Timney for $24.95?
I miss the days you could order a Thompson and have it mailed to your house without an FFL or background check or tax stamp.
I couldn’t shoot an Elephant. They’re pretty amazing animals, intelligent, enormous and beautiful. An elephant pregnancy takes 23 Months so it’s not like they’re making more elephants quickly!
I’ll be a buyer. Throw a silencer on the end and pair it up with a Glock 33 round mag and that’s a recipe for a good time that doesn’t break the bank. Unlike the carbines from HiPoint, it doesn’t make me gag when I look at it either. Sub2k is nice, but I don’t like the location of the charging handle or how hard it is to pull back. Didn’t have good luck with the only KelTec that I’ve owned either.
Hopefully .40 and .45 versions are coming soon…
A woman after my own heart! Way to go Sarah!
P.S. Suck it liberal snowflakes!
Wifey surprised me with A Ruger Precision Rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor. Totally did not see it coming. Scope is ordered, and I can’t wait to take it to the range!
I’m a lucky dog!
It doesn’t make any different what laws are on the books.bad guys will be able to get a hand on any handgun onthe black on market or street or alley.
She shoots her trap every day, and it’s mostly ridiculous lies.
That’s pretty much a hard no for me, save for actual need, like one is running toward me with the intent of filling muddy footprints with the goo that was once me.
Does it come in .9mm? You know, for journalists.
I’d love to shoot an elephant, if only the circus would come to town again. Ever since I took a trophy lion on their last visit, they won’t set foot in my neck of the woods anymore.
I’ll take mine in .45 acp please.
Okay, an AR chambered in .45 Raptor please. It looks a lot like an S&W .460 to me.
It’s truly amazing. The gun grabbers want to do away with firearms. Their efforts have led to hundreds of millions of new guns and gun owners.
And led directly to Trump getting elected which is changing the make up of the federal courts.
99% of the guns of my youth were ‘Fudd’ funs. No ordinary citizen got a carry permit. And now we are awash in ebr’s and on the verge of constitutional carry nation wide.
God bless the anti gun crowd.
but does he make ‘turtle face’ when he does stuff? then he’d look like an utra cool hi-speed operator
If it’s close enough to see, it’s close enough to hit.
Good article. I enjoyed it.
No, but I sometimes I wish we could shoot Rhinos. Specifically the ones in congress.
This bill is unconstitutional. The correct path would be for the Justice Department to sue all of the restrictive states to nullify their UNCONSTITUTIONAL gun laws. That action stands on far better Constitutional ground than another illegal distortion of the ICC.
so this is how Al Pachino felt in scarface…., now I just need a mountain of coke to bury my face in!
Sounds like the writer had an axe to grind before he wrote the article. I own two Turkish-made handguns, a SAR B6P and a CM9 Gen 2, a Canik TP9SA, and a Tristar P-100, and I’d put them up against any other guns I own. Flimsy they are not. Cheap they are not. In fact, the fit and finish of the SAR barrels and inside of the slide are better than my Glocks, S&Ws, and Rugers. No, SAR doesn’t have the brand-name cachet of the big boys, but they shoot great and are reliable. Not to mention, they cost a fraction of what the big boys charge. Give up your Glock or H&K for a SAR? Probably not. But at least give these guns credit. I’ll add a SAR9 to my collection soon.
They call their housing “student ghettos” for a reason…….lots of human garbage (mostly on scholarship or affirmative action) on college campuses……”bucolic” is the last word id use to describle a modern college campus.
David Kopel is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He voiced support for the bump stock ban and said machine guns are not constitutionally protected. He can take a long walk off a short pear.
“ A man who poached a white-tailed buck on private property will have to spend every weekend of the deer hunting season in jail for the next five years, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said. …”
So is this a felony conviction then? Not many days total served to complete sentence but > one year. Guess if it is he won’t have to worry about breaking any hunting laws any more.
Or about cleaning any guns.
When I remember that through age and medical status, I’m ineligable … suddenly, I’m fine with this.