Louis Theroux's African Hunting @ 9p.m.

Invincible

Well lad's,
there's an interesting programme on tonight(Sunday) @ 9 p.m on BBC 2.
Louis visits the Limpopo province of South Africa,to view the hunting industry and meet the professional hunters and tourists.

fathersymes

It will be an interesting watch although he is going to entrap the hunters and portray them as perverts who are willing to spend 30,000+ to shoot Rhino, Lion, Elephant etc.. Now... I as a hunter, luckily can afford this type of hunting, but never will I pay trophy fees for the big 5, I would rather hunt plains game which can be done for 1,500.

Today there was a review of the programme on 2FM, usual misinformed histerical nonsense, "evil sick people killing defenseless animals for fun" type of stuff. Little do they know that parts of Africa are currently overrun by Elephant and Rhino and culling is sold to foreigners under strictly controlled licensing with the proceeds going to local benefit.

Deer Hunter DL

well what ya think of that i think your man Louis is a bit of a gob****e he seemed to be trying his best to make everyone guilty about hunting

dresden8

Good bit when your man lost his temper with Louis and told him to stop asking the same question 15 or so times. The most honest part of the programme. Without the hunting there would be no sable or the landscape or anything else.

Also, Louis' hunting guide had the measure of him from the start. Some people are made for hunting, some are not. It's your choice.

Killer line, you'll eat the meat but you won't kill the animal.

It's fair to say that from the start Louis wasn't going to shoot anything.

Still Ivan might be happy with the crossbow hunting.

Traumadoc

Only saw the end - from the bit where he cold not shoot the warthog. Thought it was not too bad.

gally

Most of those "hunters" are a bunch of gob****es "hunting" in a cottonwool wrapped environment.Fish in a barrell comes to mind!

Invincible

gally wrote: »

Most of those "hunters" are a bunch of gob****es "hunting" in a cottonwool wrapped environment.Fish in a barrell comes to mind!

I'd agree,there was'nt much of a challenge in it,the animals had no fear of humans for a start,driven shooting looks harmless compared to that.

ivanthehunter

gally wrote: »

Most of those "hunters" are a bunch of gob****es "hunting" in a cottonwool wrapped environment.Fish in a barrell comes to mind!

dead right, i have seen more skill at 4am on a sat night
Why bother? Ambush hunting is boring, skill less and not exciting.
Albeit i was glad to see the xbows out in force

whitser

didnt see it myself but lads in work who would be anti hunting said it wasnt too bad and that the line about eating the meat but not killing the animal made sense. none of them seemed shocked etc...it was compared to driving around a farm shooting cows. not real hunting. also mentioned was the jobs it provided so from what i heard it didnt have too negative an effect.

meathshooter

found him very anti hunting few good points from the hunt management that through there hunting trips and breeding has helped some endangered animals

Rovi

Haven't watched it yet myself, but I have it on the Sky box; I'll see what I can do about getting it into some sort of shareable format, if anyone's interested?

It wasn't me!

I'd appreciate it, if possible.

riflehunter77

Not every one is a hunter you will eat the meat but you wont kill it ....

Program was a load of sh*te, shooting game from a hide at 25 yards..

One lad missed a zebra while sitting in the back of a jeep at 75 yards..
The PH should of got him to take some practice shots from many different positions not just from the bench rest :mad::mad:

Sparks

link removed: google for bittorrent and "louis theroux african hunting" to find suitable alternates

But you'd have to know about bittorrent and such things.

robertpatterson

Itll probably be on the bbc iplayer site on the bbc homepage

IRLConor

robertpatterson wrote: »

Itll probably be on the bbc iplayer site on the bbc homepage

Yeah, but you'll need to know how to get a UK IP address to watch it there. It's a toss-up whether knowing how to do that or knowing how to use Bittorrent is easier.

RuggieBear

no more posting copyrighted material guys.