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Post by buckup on Aug 10, 2008 18:16:52 GMT -5
What do you believe is the biggest threat to hunting today?
Anti's Non-Hunters Ourselves Loss of Habitat Other
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Post by hp on Aug 10, 2008 18:36:19 GMT -5
Holier than thou bowhunters!!!! cant' freaking stand em!!!
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Post by Woody Williams on Aug 10, 2008 18:41:06 GMT -5
Commercialization....
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Post by jackryan on Aug 10, 2008 19:44:00 GMT -5
Lawyers, doctors, and other phonies pretending to be hunters along with the phony hunters who are really politicions.
The antis are like a gnat on a deers rump. Barely a nuisance compared to what the people who really don't want to hunt are doing to hunting trying to make it some kind of team sport, contest, or business.
People who don't know which end goes up and think the animals there to sell the products instead of the products serving the purpose of hunting the animals. Instead of looking at what needs to be done biologically to sustain wildlife and continue a hunting culture for the future they will manipulate the rules to sell the most products and squeeze the last dollar out of the wild for themselves.
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Post by Decatur on Aug 10, 2008 20:05:43 GMT -5
Amen Woody! And MOST of that commercialization is caused by the Pope & Young or bust crowd that worship the TV "Hunters", and think that ONLY a huge buck is "worth" their time.
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Post by Hawkeye on Aug 10, 2008 20:20:22 GMT -5
Maybe population, that causes loss of habitat and causes more non hunters being born than hunters.
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Post by oldrookie on Aug 10, 2008 20:24:31 GMT -5
other - unfortunately....ourselves.
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Post by hornharvester on Aug 10, 2008 21:37:02 GMT -5
X2. Big bucks at all cost will be the end of hunting for the average guy in years to come. h.h.
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Post by gillgrabber on Aug 10, 2008 22:06:59 GMT -5
Apathetic hunters who won't stand up to the anti-hunters, won't join a pro-hunting group like the NRA or SCI to defend their rights, act like slobs in the woods, and then act surprised when ignorant, tree hugging, animal loving, anti-hunters attempt to pass legislation making hunting illegal.
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 11, 2008 4:15:59 GMT -5
X2. Big bucks at all cost will be the end of hunting for the average guy in years to come. h.h. I go along with these guys.
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Post by Ahawkeye on Aug 11, 2008 4:46:38 GMT -5
Slob hunters who only care about themselves and their agenda. They paint a picture for anti's and non hunters that covers all of us, it would take 10 good hunters to fix or cover up the actions of one or two slob hunters.
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Post by old3arrows on Aug 11, 2008 6:03:36 GMT -5
Urban sprawl taking up all of our deer hunting ground and leasing shutting off access to thousands of acres to a privileged few. Buy ground now boys cause it won't get any cheaper, and they aren't making any more of it!!!!!!!!
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Post by buckup on Aug 11, 2008 6:33:43 GMT -5
Slob hunters who only care about themselves and their agenda. They paint a picture for anti's and non hunters that covers all of us, it would take 10 good hunters to fix or cover up the actions of one or two slob hunters. What do you mean by "slob hunters" Just trying to understand your opinion, not being negative.
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Post by beehunter on Aug 11, 2008 6:51:31 GMT -5
Commercialization, urban sprawl, slob hunters and not enough people growing up in a rural setting.
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Post by ripleyshooter on Aug 11, 2008 7:10:10 GMT -5
I agree with Woody commercialization is hard on hunting.
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Post by drs on Aug 11, 2008 7:44:23 GMT -5
Urban Sprawl and Loss of Habitat
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2008 8:34:55 GMT -5
I disagree that commercialization is all bad. Most of the people that are making money from the hunting sports, pour tons of it back into the sport. It's to their advantage that hunting does not slip away from us. Hunting will change over the coming years, just as it has changed in the last few, but it will be here for a long time yet to come. If you took away every single person or group or manufacturer or anything else you can dream up that makes a profit from hunting....it would already be gone. Commerciallizing hunting has preserved it more than it has hurt when you break it done and look closely. Hunting shows on TV get some youth interest as well as those dang video games. Without Mathews and a bunch of others, NASP could not exist, so is that a bad thing? Of course not. The enemy we need to focus on is ourselves.......factions deeply rooted in tradition who are unwilling to change. ONE example of this is the crossbow expansion focus in recent years. State Game Agency need tools to manage their changing deer herds, and crossbow expansion is always on top of the short list as one that is needed or will be needed to help them out in multiple ways. Yet wehave seen tremendous opposition to any efforts to expand on any crossbow hunting in most any state that takes it on, even though the overall effect of a crossbow expansion is almost non-existant. And so it goes.....one faction against another. It'll be the number 1 factor if hunting goes down the tubes.
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Post by trapperdave on Aug 11, 2008 8:42:33 GMT -5
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Post by whiteoak on Aug 11, 2008 8:43:53 GMT -5
For the average hunter, leased ground
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Aug 11, 2008 9:16:22 GMT -5
More folks living the busy modern urban lifestyle...
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