Unhappy Hunting I read the article on hunting exotics by Wes Ferguson [“Aoudads and Bongos and Zebras, Oh My!,” February 2021], and I greatly admired his writing and the balance given to the subject. However, I cannot see how such ranches can be viewed positively. The owners have created an amusement park, but instead of popping a balloon with a water pistol, you shoot an animal. There’s no hunting anywhere, at least nothing I can recognize. My father once told me that you can justify anything as long as you keep telling yourself it’s justified—like the argument that an animal dying by a bullet is better than it being killed by a lion. It’s an irrelevant choice since the environment is carefully prepared and the animals…The post April 2021: Roar of the Crowd appeared first on Texas Monthly.