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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:

I DAMN sure do not agree with the government telling a Private Land Owner what they can or can not do on their own property.

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No I don't believe a person should be able to get involved with either on their own property if it is NOT LEGAL in the state they live in.

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Originally posted by Navaluk:

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:


White tails are different, but are you or I or anyone else really against Free Enterprise?

That is what High Fence Deer Ranches are, Free Enterprise in action!

How do we, hunters as a group, convince other "Hunter's" that the numbers game and shooting pen raised livestock is detrimental to hunting?

I'm against this free enterprise because I want to hunt. Just because it's free doesn't make it good for hunting or good for anything. Selling cocaine used to be legal free enterprise and then it wasn't.

The same should happen here for 2 very good reasons:

1. These deer farmers and the POS killers who finance them are facilitating and accelerating the spread of CWD. Their legal method of business and hunting is infringing on my opportunity to hunt disease free deer now and may infringe on my right to hunt deer in many places I want to legally hunt. As soon as somebody gets a prion disease and they think it may be from eating CWD infected meat, I'm screwed. The government will overreact like with Ebola, mark my words.

2. Those on the fence voters, who are neither hunters nor rabid antis, might associate this BS with me and my "hunting" and think "this is crap and if this is what hunting has come to and the hunting community supports this, then I'm sick of it and I'm going to vote it all down."
As a hunter with almost 5 decades in, I can say if this farm killing was all there was I would vote against hunting myself. So I don't see it beyond the pale that fence sitters will vote it down. For me it's disrespectful to the magnificent Whitetail.

The fence sitters see this agri-hunting and they think that's what hunting is. They don't know better and they don't care enough to find out, they just make a judgment on what they do know and vote against it.

Make no mistake the vast majority of voters are neither hunters or antis. They are people who care about other things as deeply as I care about hunting. They only make time to care about hunting when something catches their attention. That's why the antis use extreme visual aids and examples in their advertising. They know perfectly well that 80% of the voters simply do not have time between work, family and their hobbies, to give a shit about hunting. If we don't self regulate with an eye towards keeping these people out of the voting booth, all hunting will "hang together".