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It’s Time For The Great Floridian Python Hunt

Nearly 800 snake hunters are signed up for the 2013 Python Challenge in Florida, USA. For the next month, the hunters will be scouring the Everglades for the invasive Burmese pythons that are destroying the fragile ecosystem. This is a real thing.


Hunters Shoot Animal Rights Drone Out Of The Sky

The gun totin’ boys at the Broxton Bridge Plantation hunting ground were planning on having themselves a good old fashioned pigeon hunt. South Carolina’s unfortunately named S.H.A.R.K. animal rights group planned to expose them via aerial drone. Guess what happened.


GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons Was Bitten By A Big Cat While Hunting Game In 2009

If you’re a big game hunting blowhard like GoDaddy CEO Bob Parsons, you don’t start with elephants. Nay, his superb skills were actually honed over the years. In 2009 he hunted a leopard, you see. And it bit him.


Watch A Dog Hunt, From The Dog’s Point Of View

This is amazing. A duck hunter attached a GoPro HD to his hunting dog and lets us see what it’s like to hunt from a dog’s perspective. We get to see the whole hunting process from a dog’s perspective: the quick reactions, the animal instincts, the ease of swimming, the grab and even the dizzying water shake. Looks fun, but a lot of work too. [The Sugarcoat via Field and Stream]


Hunter Becomes Hunted: A Fox Shoots A Man

When a fox was shot by a hunter, it didn’t die. Instead, when the hunter tried to finish the fox off with the butt of his gun, the animal pulled the trigger of the gun and shot the hunter right back.


Bored Hunters In Oregon Regularly Shooting Down Google’s Fibres

When there’s no deer or quail or whatever it is hunters shoot up in The Dalles around, bored gunmen have been playing target practice with the insulators on Google’s electricity distribution poles. It’s so problematic Google’s moving their fibres underground.


Quadriplegic Man Gets Licence To Control Shotgun With His Mouth

Jamie Capp was paralysed playing football in high school, robbing him of the ability to hunt. But now, after a two-and-a-half year legal battle, he’s obtained a hunting licence.


Warning: Robots Have Learned Deception, Will Kill Us All

Not to get all alarmist with you people, but a group of robots in Switzerland have learned to lie to each other about the location of an object representing food, which almost certainly means we’re all going to die. Soon.


Pioneering Orangutan Pries First Hunting Tool Ever Out of Heston’s Cold Dead Hands

Hide the china, bananas, children—whatever. I guess it doesn’t really matter, because for the first time ever an orangutan was spotted in the wild using a gadget to hunt. In this case the tool was a spear, and the intrepid primate apparently picked up the skill by watching locals fish with spears along the Gohong River in Borneo, on the island of Kaja.


Bazooka Camo ATV Speakers For Hunters: Because Deer Love Loud Country Music

These 6.5″ Bazooka “Outdoor Tubbie” speakers are hilarious on numerous levels. First off, they are designed for hunters—which is why they are camouflaged. The idea is to hook them to your ATV roll bar, which I can only presume is useful for those interested in hunting wild game while blaring music. Uh, I don’t know much about hunting, but I do know that thundering out of the brush, guns a’ blazin’ with duelling banjos blaring from your ATV is unlikely to result in a successful kill. However, if you are interested in picking them up, you can do so starting this March for US$449.95. [Product Page via AudioJunkies]


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