Sako 90 launch: first hunt, first moose 

Paul Childerley thinks he has been invited across to Sako's HQ in Finland to hunt moose and whitetail, but there's a surprise in store. He's testing and hunting with the all new Sako 90 rifle in .308. Before the hunt he spends a day on the range with journalists from across Europe where he revisits his close-up encounter with a Mozambique buffalo with a .375 speed test. He then strikes lucky in the field with a moose cow and whitetail doe, both taken with a fresh-off-the-production-line carbon-stocked Sako 90.
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The modern problem for trophy hunting began with the Cecil The Lion story in 2015, when a US hunting tourist called Walter Palmer shot a lion in Zimbabwe. The animal rights lobby successfully presented it as an animal called 'Cecil', claiming it was popular with tourists. Most of the money they raised from the Cecil incident paid for lobbying, not conservation. Worldwide government actions following the incident led to some of the biggest and most tragic wildlife slaughters ever seen in Africa. As trophy bans fell into place, wildlife poaching boomed.
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When it comes to wildlife, there are two kinds of African countries: wildlife winners, which allow hunting and have healthy populations of wildlife; and wildlife losers, where hunting is banned. It is no coincidence that the last northern white rhino died in Kenya, an anti-hunting country.
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