California's prohibition on mountain lion hunting is about conservation. If and when mountain lion populations make a comeback to the point that they are eating more household pets than they are already, I suspect that California will reverse the prohibition.

There is nothing wrong or unwise about what the guy did, period. To argue otherwise is to put all the power in the special interest groups' hands to curtail the actions of law abiding citizens.


Seriously, what if California freaked out even more and outlawed all hunting in the state except for like small game hunting for 2 weekends a year. They'd still need game commissioners. Would those game commissioners be unwise to go to a neighboring state and hunt during their vacations and so forth? Would it be a problem if one of them shot a record bear in a neighboring state and got photographed as he would all over the place?


On a side note:

This:





has a huge amount of "cool factor" to me since I own two Winchester carbines myself - both are basically 19th century weapons (manufactured recently to their old specifications), one in 45 Colt and one in 45-70 Gov't. The idea of killing a mountain lion with one of those old and venerated weapons and supposedly obsolete calibers just might make me rethink my own position on hunting something I didn't plan to eat!

 

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It would be unusual if the Fish and Game Commissioner didn't hunt.

Normally I would never hunt. I am a tree hugger, I couldn't think about hurting some defenseless animal.

Although......can you hunt Puma in Yuma?

 

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