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Yeah, layed out on the floor in front of the fireplace. With the neck hide runnin' down the hall to either the john, or the budoir......

Heck ya, or a couple of walls

Have never been to Africa (probably never will) but could not see myself shooting an elephant or giraffe either if I ever did go. More local, was invited to a friends place to shoot a coatimundi (SP?) but gave them a pass.

Only talkin' here..

I have no desire to drop the hammer on duckies, mountain lions and badgers. Bobs, too. I can spend a whole afternoon watching bobs hunt a hill side.

I also don't kill sharks and rattlesnakes, because I expect the same in return.

The African Lion. Aslan
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It isn't the species so much at the method. I'd not shoot bears over bait. I'd love to hunt them sometime though.

+1

To each their own, but I assure you shooting bears over bait is not as easy as just dumping out bait and waiting for the bear to come. Well I guess it can be, but I have also walked 10 feet from the pickup, jumped deer and then killed them.

If I could set and maintain the bait myself that would be one thing ( we can not bait). I would not want to kill a bear over someone elses bait.

Keeping it to N. America, I gotta say foxes. How they exist around here with wolves, bears, lions, yotes, is a bleaming miracle. Just couldn't shoot one of the little buggers.

If I ever get to Africa, Giraffe, Zebra, and Ele. Since I can't draw a Moose here, I won't shoot one.

While I will likely never go to Africa; Elephant, Giraffe, Rhino and zebra have no appeal. A Cape Buffalo would be my hunt of a lifetime though.

In the U.S. of late shooting a black bear has lost its appeal. Too much like a person.

I don't bother possums, racoons or pack rats either. After that its all fair game.

Can't think of anything off the top of my head I'd not.................

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Gunner

Not sure I have an animal that I wouldn't shoot stateside, but a moose has almost zero appeal to me.

Worldwide I would have to say elephant and Rhino,

cant think of anything......even though like ingwe i like snakes and dont kill them just cause but if i wanted a hide for something i would shoot one as i figure like most critters they a renewable resource....

basically so long as its legal im good to go......give critters passes all the time on individual basis but if i come across one on a different day or situation they are fair game....im ill pass on shooting whitetail in a high fence but unless a whole lot of you SOB's are gonna show up to help, while i want to shoot a bison, i also want to shoot one where you can get a tractor to it

Hmmm...

There's lots of things I have zero interest in shooting. But then, I see a bunch of deer I have zero interest in shooting every year. I couldn't begin to articulate why one deer looks tasty to me and I shoot it almost reflexively and ten others might as well be the neighbor's cows. I'd like to try some moose meat one day, but no where near bad enough to drag half a ton out of the places I run into them. I dragged way too many deer out of nasty places when I was young.

Things I just couldn't shoot? Tundra (whistling) swans. They fly over me every year when I am out in the deer stand. They have all my life and if I am lucky they will the rest of my years.

Thanks goodness, I was wondering if this thread was about Fruit of the Loom thongs...

...anyway, no to big cats for me, but I don't begrudge others who hunt them ethically. I'd probably let a fox or a ringtail cat go, too.

im still young but after one back and three knee surgeries i dont have alot of interest dropping a large critter to far back if its just me and my wife doing the packing.....if i have my brother along or other help than things change a bit....

Bobcats for me. I'll bust a feral cat in a heartbeat, but bobs get a pass.