Rob:
I agree with your sentiments and understand the need to keep the Mountain Lion population under control. However; I ran a video production company* for many years and did a lot of video editing and duplication for fellow hunters since,as a hunter myself I understood what they wanted done. Lots of footage from Africa and some really great Elk,sheep and deer footage from my own State of Arizona.
Mountain Lion hunting in Arizona typically requires locating spoor and then releasing a pack of dogs to trail the lion. The end result is usually a treed Mountain Lion which the hunter dispaches at close range often with a pistol. The dogs of course are all over the cat as soon as it hits the ground. The first time I handed this type of footage to one of our female editors resulted in her bursting into tears and refusing to finish the project. Subsequently I had to edit such footage myself as no one else would do it.
I think you can imagine the impact of someone shooting an apparentely defenseless animal that been treed by dogs has on the general public. The environmental activitists and organizations like PETA would have a field day using this footage for propaganda purposes. I wouldn't be surprised if PETA has someone reading this thread as I type it trying to figure out how to put this material to their own use.
*I was also aware according to some of the hunter clients that my competition wouldn't even touch their material placing it in the same category as pornography.
Jim
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