So we can make allowance for corn feeding deer, but not for farm bred lions?

I believe what we are going to learn from all this is how many times a hair can be split.

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So we can make allowance for corn feeding deer, but not for farm bred lions?

I am making the case for not alienating either.

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So we can make allowance for corn feeding deer, but not for farm bred lions?

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I believe what we are going to learn from all this is how many times a hair can be split.

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I am making the case for not alienating either.

We have finally cut to the chase. Hunters as a group are going to let hunting die over Personal attitudes toward hunting.

The purists/elitists among us believe that everyone must view things their way and there is no room for deviation. Anyone "Hunting" in a manner these individuals do not approve of should not be hunting nor should they refer to themselves as a hunter.

We all need to take our blinders off and realize that if we do not set aside our personal prejudices, all hunting of any kind may or will be lost.

The saddest part is many hunters really do not care how some one else hunts, as long as what they are doing is LEGAL and is an Accepted method in the area where they are hunting.

Trouble is, that is not Good enough for the elitists/purists among us who seem to believe that the Anti's will give them a Free Pass and they will still be allowed to hunt while all of us slobs won't be.

Could we maybe put the two things together?

1. We need to stay united as HUNTERS, or we will soon see hunting going away.

2. We do need to adhere to a certain basic set of ethics, but understand that there is some personal and even regional variability.

By HUNTERS I mean all of us: rifle, bow, meat, trophy, deer, duck, local, international.

As for ethics that's where it gets tricky because that is such a personal and even regional issue. A nice starting point would be any practice that any hunter could say "that's wrong" without needing to put some kind of qualifier involving "I" in front of it, such as "I think" or "I feel".

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Could we maybe put the two things together?

1. We need to stay united as HUNTERS, or we will soon see hunting going away.

2. We do need to adhere to a certain basic set of ethics, but understand that there is some personal and even regional variability.

By HUNTERS I mean all of us: rifle, bow, meat, trophy, deer, duck, local, international.

As for ethics that's where it gets tricky because that is such a personal and even regional issue. A nice starting point would be any practice that any hunter could say "that's wrong" without needing to put some kind of qualifier involving "I" in front of it, such as "I think" or "I feel".

PERFECT.

If we could simply get everyone to understand that if we don't unite hunting will be stopped, and in spite of what some folks have began to believe, the folks wanting to end hunting do not care about our ethics. They really do not care about the animals.

Just like the anti gun people, all the folks are trying to do is control the actions/life of other people.

The problems are they are commited to their goal and they are ORGANISED behind a Common Goal, hunters are not.