I posted Ill post what I said here so you wont have to go to the LIBERAL NEWS site to view it, Its long winded but man did they piss me off
Im a trophy hunter, I dont hunt for the meat, I do take all edible portions of meat when Im lucky enough to kill an animal, I see no problem with people who hunt for meat or with people that do not hunt at all. Hunting for me is a recreational activity that I will do untill I am no longer able to. With that said I have a few things for all of the anti-hunters out there. Hunting is a huge economic resource for state and local governments, Billions and billions of dollars are spent on hunting each year with the tax that is earned from that money it goes to enhance habitat, including parks and recreation areas where no hunting is allowed management for the wildlife hunters hunt, and other state and local activitys that have nothing to do with hunting, the truth is that several towns in this country survive soley on hunting if you eliminated hunting there wouldnt be this money, if you didnt manage wildlife they would eat themselves outa house and home and there would be masive starvation, erosion, and diesese. Now you all say that the wolves are the answer to this, well what about when the wolves over populate and eat themselves outa house and home then they start eating your dogs and kids and eventually starve to death, its a visious cycle that GOD has given HUMANS dominion over the animals to manage for survival both for food and economical. The hunting system works, weather you like it or not it generates tons of money for every citizen in the country while managing herd numbers to suit the habitat the animals live in. Places have tried eliminating hunting and in every case the herd or species over populated and killed themselves off, I compare this to the pine bettle infestation the state is facing right now, 10 years ago all you greenie, tree huggers got logging in this state shut down or to such a minimum there was no money in it so the loggers packed up and moved to other states to make their livings, now the forest in parts of Colorado is a complete loss and the pine bettle is outa control to a point that the forest service used to sell logs now the forest service is having to pay tax dollars to clear stands of infested trees to limit the fire danger, If logging would of continued at a managed rate the pine bettle situation would still be under control and the government agencies, and communitys that survived on logging would be in better shape today, hard to believe for some that managing for the good of the forest/wildlife benifits both the forest/wildlife and the people that live in and around them.
Now I know that I havent changed any of your GREENIE minds but I hope I atleast make you think about this a little bit, If we just let the world take care of itself it will self destruct and we will have failed, You buy your meat and potatos at the grocery store but let me tell you that the meat and potatos dont grow in the grocery store, I am proud to say that I dont need the grocery store to survive I could do it on my own and if things in this country keep going the direction they are going I think we will have to.
I have a few truths to let you in on as well, Truth, hunters were the first conservation organization in this country with out hunters we wouldnt have any animals left, Check out the BOONE & CROCKETT club if you do not believe me, It is the record book club that all of us trophy hunters pray one day to put our name in, as far as killing trophy animals is bad for the gene pool that is totally false trophy animals are older animals that have spread their genes several years prior and if you harvest all the little animals and let only the older ones spread their genes you would end up with a bunch of imbread animals not at all good for the gene pool, I for one disagree with killing addolecent animals because they never get the chance to reach full maturity and spread their genes thats why I only hunt for the trophy not to brag not to show Im a better hunter than my buddies but to challenge myself against the best of the best in the animal world young animals are dumb old ones are not. Last but probably the most important one of all KIRT DARNER is not a HUNTER he is a POACHER there is a huge difference, A hunter follows the fair chase rules and few are lucky enough to have the chance of a lifetime at a trophy animal, a hunter will spend hours, days, weeks, months, years in search of that moment weather a trophy hunter or a meat hunter I havent seen any body pass up a 200" buck for a 2 point, POACHERS are everyones enemies you think the GREENIES hate them, well us HUNTERS hate them 10 times as much because everytime a newspaper prints an article like this one it just gives the ANTI-HUNTING community more ammunition against us and Im offended that hunters are put in the same catagory as POACHERS, Ive had my chances at poaching animals and Im extremely proud to say that I have never once been tempted enough to do it because the loss is so much greater than the reward losing my hunting privilages for 1 year would kill me much less a lifetime.
Im just an average Joe, I pay my taxes and I enjoy the gifts that GOD has given me, Public land and the animals that he so graciously placed on it, Im not trying to ban earthday, tie-dyed shirts, berkenstocks, corderoy pants, hemp necklaces, not working, hippies, drain on society, VW busses, PETA, GREENPEACE, or any other GREENIE, TREE HUGGING activity so why is it so high on your list of prioritys to try and eliminate what we do. Is it because we are all working when your having the meetings. NUFF SAID.