Rocky1
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Originally Posted By: mejeremybI see your point but I think we as hunters should have more respect for our sport and have a resposibility to make quick ethical kills. We are less likely to have attention brought onto hunting from antis by going out and callin in and shootin a yote than if they were to see how they drive around in trucks drinking and cutting fences tryin to let the dogs chase them down and rip them apart. Groups of guys like that gives our sport a bad reputaion and we all know first hand right now what happens from polititions going off of reputations instead of facts. Ignorance is definitely NOT bliss!!!!
I most certainly understand your position, and I'm not trying to argue that at all Jeremy. Simply trying to point out, that we as hunters, must be careful of what parts of other hunters' actions we attack. Or, we ourselves begin sounding like the antis.
While you may not approve of their actions or their methods, we have to be careful what parts of their actions/methods we pick apart. Ripping around in the pickup, drinking, raising he11, cutting fences... Yep, that's all irresponsible, destroys land owner relations, and portrays a bad image of hunters as a whole; most certainly a condemnable offense. Argument that one method of killing is more acceptable than another because it's more "Humane" is kinda iffy, in our politically correct world.
That's drawing tiny little lines in the sand; fragmenting hunters as a whole; eroding away at our rights bit by bit. If we condemn those that kill in that method, and refuse to support them when the antis attack their method, then we are that many fewer in support of our methods, when the antis attack ours. While their method of killing a coyote may not be altogether acceptable to you, your method is just as unacceptable to others. It's a whole lot like this gun control problem we're facing at the moment, they're arguing they just want Assault Weapons now, but we all know that's simply the first step in their master plan. It's the same thing with hunting, they keep picking away at it bit by bit, and the opposition forces become smaller and smaller. Each argument they offer meets with less and less resistance, until eventually they will overcome and prevail.
I most certainly understand your position, and I'm not trying to argue that at all Jeremy. Simply trying to point out, that we as hunters, must be careful of what parts of other hunters' actions we attack. Or, we ourselves begin sounding like the antis.
While you may not approve of their actions or their methods, we have to be careful what parts of their actions/methods we pick apart. Ripping around in the pickup, drinking, raising he11, cutting fences... Yep, that's all irresponsible, destroys land owner relations, and portrays a bad image of hunters as a whole; most certainly a condemnable offense. Argument that one method of killing is more acceptable than another because it's more "Humane" is kinda iffy, in our politically correct world.
That's drawing tiny little lines in the sand; fragmenting hunters as a whole; eroding away at our rights bit by bit. If we condemn those that kill in that method, and refuse to support them when the antis attack their method, then we are that many fewer in support of our methods, when the antis attack ours. While their method of killing a coyote may not be altogether acceptable to you, your method is just as unacceptable to others. It's a whole lot like this gun control problem we're facing at the moment, they're arguing they just want Assault Weapons now, but we all know that's simply the first step in their master plan. It's the same thing with hunting, they keep picking away at it bit by bit, and the opposition forces become smaller and smaller. Each argument they offer meets with less and less resistance, until eventually they will overcome and prevail.
