He didn't do it for the sport he did it for the tusks.
'Nixon Dzingai, the professional hunter who led the hunt, said
the elephant had arrived unexpectedly one morning towards the end of the German’s trip, and they had not realised the size of his tusks until it was too late.
"We did not have to stalk the elephant it just showed up at 7.30 in the morning, before the heat. I was so surprised when we saw how the horns. My client did not ask for this, he just wanted an elephant,'
'In the last ten years elephant numbers have dropped by 62%. There are fewer than 500,000 on the African continent today and conservationists have warned that by the end of the next decade, they could be extinct'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-Zimbabwe.html