PIERS Morgan was screamed at today on Good Morning Britain by an elephant hunter who killed 5000 of the animals – but "felt nothing".
The men squared up to each other on the show as 54-year-old host Piers returned from his three week Easter break.
It was awkward from the start after 77-year-old Zimbabwean guest Ron Thomson refused to answer when Piers listed off his incredible hunting CV.
It showed that he'd slaughtered 5,000 elephants, 800 buffalo, 600 lions, 50 hippos and 40 leopards in his time.
After some debate about the morality of hunting and managing animal populations in Africa, Piers asked Ron a direct question and said: "Did you enjoy killing those elephants?
"Decade after decade you and your mates have gone out and blazed away at these elephants and it doesn’t seem to have had any impact on you whatsoever.
"Is there not a more humane way you could do this?"
Ron screamed back: "You don’t know the effect it’s had on me.
"All I’m telling you was I was highly efficient at it. I would rather have gone in and done the shooting.
"I went in and got the job done. I would rather have done the shooting than get some other guy who comes in and pays the bottom dollar."
Ron also admitted that he "felt nothing" killing the animals and his lack of emotion helped him "get the job done".
Over 1.3 million elephants used to roam the earth but the number has dropped to 400,000.
Ron insisted he needed to protect the environment – and compared his job to that of a brain surgeon.
Now the Ban Trophy Hunting campaign wants restrictions on elephant horns in the UK.
And Ron has previously boasted about killing 32 elephants in one go and the hunting fanatic once said killing animals gave him a “thrill”.
He was identified as one of the world’s most prolific hunters in a report that named Britain as among the ‘deadly dozen’ nations of trophy hunters.
Growing up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, he began hunting as a teenager and quickly became expert.
From 1959, he worked as a national parks ranger and was regularly called on to kill animals.
He claims that some species would destroy their own habitats if their growing numbers are not controlled.
He told The Independent he no longer regularly hunts but may do so if invited: "I’ve done enough in my lifetime to satisfy any ‘bloodlust’ people may think I have. It wasn’t bloodlust – it was my job."
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