Lots of high fences in Texas, employment and financial security for rural people, a class of people worth preserving. Ranches stay ranches longer and not subdivided and/or sold to the Chinese or Arabs whatever.
Sporting? Are scopes, motorized transportation, GPS, hi tech clothing, pre-packaged food and drink supplies brung sporting?
As long as the kill is humane, I don’t have a problem with it.
I don't have a problem with it either, I just don't understand paying big money to shoot domestic animals. If that's your thing, go ahead, it's your money. The biggest ripoff I've seen is bison ''hunting''. One ranch has you prop up and shoot behind the head in the 3rd vertebrae and has a backup shooter with you in case you botch it. This is not hunting and the only thing you might prove is your ability to shoot a large target. To each his own.
