Nope. Saw the video as it appeared first on A Current Affair, Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight back in the 90s. The video showed him taking part in a canned hunt of a black jaguar on the property of actor Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn. There was a cage with the animal inside and it showed McRaney with his rifle shouldered and firing down into the cage at the jaguar. I'm not sure what video it was on Youtube, but this has been known about both Russell and McRaney since the 90s. I have a problem with McRaney in that I love the show "Major Dad" due to my friendship with one of the cast and support them, but I hate with a passion McRaney and his issues on guns and hunting. I also have an issue with Jameson Parker due his hero worship of McRaney.
McRaney should read the works of James Oliver Curwood, who was an author and at one point a hunter in the 1880s. Curwood wrote pages of prose on the glories of hunting, until he came face-to-face with a Grizzly. His experience was detailed in his novel "The Bear and The Grizzly King" that became the basis for the Jean Jacques Annaud film "The Bear". After that event Curwood could never bring himself to touch a gun again, and also gave up hunting to become an early activist on preserving animal life. His greatest quote is this, "The greatest thrill is not in the hunt, but in letting live." I carry that quote with me to this day.
Sometimes my ruminations are too confusing for someone not inside my head. -Anon
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