This article by Gerhard Damm appears in the latest issue of the African Indaba. It is probably the best statement of the challenges, and hence the opportunities, facing hunting I have come across. I commend it to your reading. Very insightful and well written piece.

People Don't Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care!

Good read, Mike. Thank you for sharing.

A very good read Mike. Thanks

Thanks Mike. Enjoyed and shared it.

Very practical. I learned a while back to never apologize for hunting, but to always have the time for a give and take conversation. As Henry Ford II once said "never explain, and never complain," but I think some dialog is necessary for there to be hunting for our descendants.

When I was in my medical residency, I liked to feed my classmates game, and tell them the awful truth a day later. I also took them to the range to shoot. I told them they couldn't be a good anti unless they knew about the gun culture from the inside. As a result, half of them became shooters. I figured the effort was worth it to help preserve our way of life for a few generations more. Rant off. Thank you for the link to the article.

Very good essay, well worth the time to read. The timing is fortunate, as I'm hosting a wild duck dinner this evening at a local restaurant and all seven of my guests are non-hunters. They more or less 'get' hunting, but it'll be interesting to discuss some of these concepts with them.

It might really be helpful if people actually made a study of TR and his actual beliefs.