I've worked in academia (universities) most of my professional career. Being a hunter can be a liability there. These places are FULL of folks with who are extremely bright yet extremely ignorant.
I am a card carrying member of P.E.T.A (People Eating Tasty Animals) and I don't understand this letter at all. I think the people at PETA should realize how different it is to die from a rifle shot compared to being ripped apart alive by a bear or a pack of wolves. They also need to realize that game animals live as prey. They only stay alive by eluding the predators and they do that every day of their lives. Man is the top predator in most cases and we have a place in the control of herd sizes. Wolves don't seek out the weak and old the go after the animal that they can separate from the herd. It doesn't matter what its physical condition is or how old it is.
Animals do not live in our world of laws and morality and they don't suffer from the same emotions that we have. They are prey and they only live as long as the can stay ahead of the predator.
Speer, Sierra, Lyman, Hornady, Hodgdon have reliable reloading data. You won't find it on so and so's web page.
Posts: 639 | Location: SE WA. | Registered: 05 February 2004
Doesn't surprise me a bit that uninformed nut cases in PETA would send a letter out like that and then defend it with all kinds of BS like that nut in the video.
MILL HALL, Pa. - December 11, 2013 (WPVI) -- A black bear attacked a teenager in central Pennsylvania as she hunted deer on a family farm, state police said Tuesday.
Camille Marie Bomboy, 18, of Mill Hall, suffered severe bites on her arms and shoulders, and a deep cut on her head, authorities said. She was hunting with a large group Monday in Porter Township, about 75 miles northwest of Harrisburg, when three black bear cubs ran past her.
Troopers said the girl turned around to see a large black bear charging her and that the victim's stepfather was able to scare it off. The girl underwent surgery at a hospital.
Posts: 20170 | Location: wis | Registered: 21 April 2001