Guide slams bogus hunts

By YVONNE MARTIN - The Press | Saturday, 27 October 2007

A veteran safari guide, who once helped an Arab sheikh shoot stags like the infamous Brusnik, says the armchair style of hunting was "distasteful".

 

Craig Feaver, a South Canterbury deer farmer who worked for Kiwi Safaris for 11 years, guided Sheikh Mishal bin Hamad Al Thani, of Qatar, on about six trips up until 2004.

Feaver did not like the heavily assisted type of hunting at the time, where a team of men "ushered" stags past the sheikh for him to select his next trophy.

"Personally, it's not actually hunting in the sense of the word hunting. It's killing," he said.

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