No high fence or canned hunts. I'd just as soon shoot a cow.

Never had any desire to kill a bear. Don't know why. Just never have.

No desire to hunt Africa.

As for the why when it comes to Africa. Couple of reasons.

First, you are just totally a tag along until it's time to shoot. The PH takes you where he decides you need to go. You follow him around; standing where he says; moving when he says; farting when he says; etc; etc; until he tells you what and when to shoot. You are just a trigger man. You had absolutely nothing to do with the success of the hunt other than squeezing the trigger. Hang a bucket on a fence and shoot it while propped on shooting sticks and you have pulled off the same accomplishment. Hell, it's more of an accomplishment because at least you also hung the bucket. Cheaper too.

And second, you don't bring any of the meat back from an African safari so you are totally trophy hunting. And that's fine. I trophy hunt for whitetails here. But trophies from Africa would have little true meaning to me. I have spent my whole life hunting whitetails and turkey. I know exactly how much time, effort and luck it takes to kill trophy animals of either species because I have spent countless hours out there in pursuit of them. If I went to Africa and shot the largest Kudu anyone over there had seen in 100 years it wouldn't mean one bit more to me than just killing some basic shooter size Kudu. I have no frame of reference between the two. Sure I can read a description in a book on what makes an animal of a given species a trophy but without the life experience to back it up it just wouldn't be the same.