I am a member of several other boards, Muzzleloader forum, hunting and fishing and archery forums, and of course historical trekking. All deal with issues on hunting and one thing I always see when reading the interesting things and thoughtful thigs from hunters who are traditional archers, compound archers, or gun hunters is that most anti-hunter concerns are focused in the east, where there is precious little public land and populations are high. To me a clear pattern here is that where we have little or no public hunting land and most private land is leased to the silver spooners, we blue collar hunters are increasingly herded together at points of limited access, and then become easy targets for those who would harass us or disrupt our hunts.
Also big cities are where most anti-hunters live and are made since without public hunting lands to raom in the non-hunting majority become easily detached from the workings of the wilderness and nature, ignorant of the absolute necessities of predation and death, and they grow more offended by hunting. Once again here in Ohio the antis are acting up, saying that our season is too long and we need not kill the animals since stores have everything we need. Seeing these facts helps me as a cop and hunter understand why so many hunters get alarmed and are so quick to take action when they think the anti-hunters and gunners are coming.
These fears are similar to the hunters worrying about the "liberals" coming to take away our guns.
Out west I have noticed they have this problem too but not as bad as us here in the east and south and neither worry about what goes on until its in there area. It seems to be an out of sight out of mind kinda thing. To me both sides of hunting America need to come together no matter where it is in the United States.
Problem is what do we about this?
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