The Anti-Hunters...

[HuskyMusky]

I never paid them much attention but lately they're all over FB, leading the cause seems to be Ricky Gervais, comedian and fun fact, Meat eater!?

Everyone is entitled to a view and I respect that, but it's overwhelmingly clear how clueless non-hunters are on the facts.

1 fact I keep coming across is "trophy hunting" as if a trophy animal is never eatin by the hunter who harvested it?


I just find it surprising these people are up in arms over hunting and not say the big beef industry?

I can't help but think hunted animals vs. cows killed per year is a huge difference.

not to mention a wild organic game animal vs. big agriculture mcds beef etc...?


Also I notice some of these celebs saying they only eat tall grass beef, or organic etc...

so let's assume you're poor or not well off, how is that person suppose to only eat tall grass beef or organic? dare I say a resident hunting game is far cheaper than buying organic?


Just think we need to do a better job informing the non-hunters as to the facts about hunting...

Perhaps a campaign like a hunter next to a trophy animal, and then another picture next to it with everyone having dinner with wild game etc...

btw how many of the anti hunters truly are vegan/vegetarian and don't wear leather etc...?

I guess I don't see how you can be anti-hunting and eat meat? Help?

 

[87TT]

Haters gonna hate

 

[RICMIC]

Most of the people in this country are so far removed from the land that they are clueless. Most of what they think they know is fed to them by the Hollywood Agenda....Bambi lives.

 

[missjordan]

One facebook page I really enjoyed was Rack Em Up and they always see a bunch of hate from the yuppies. It's rediculous that people would go as far as threatening your own life even! To me that's more sickening than the animal that was harvested. Cyber bullying has gone way too far these days especially because they can hide behind a "fake account"

 

[Tim McCoy]

I tell the "Keep Portland Weird" group that instead of going to the grocery store, I collect locally sourced renewable grass fed free range organic low fat protein.

 

[crzy_cntryby]

There is a group in CO running ads called "hug a hunter"," hug an angler". They are great, show folks enjoying the outdoors and the coming across one and going to hug them. They say it has changed opinion of hunting according to polling.

 

[ScottR]

Anonymity can be a dangerous thing.


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[coastalarms]

I think I had almost got "numb" to all the anti-hunter crap.....then this happened with Rebecca. I know Rebecca and this one really pissed me off. She is a wonderful person.

On a completely different note.... At SHOT earlier this year we talked to folks at NSSF that said one of the fastest growing groups of new hunters are the younger folks that are all about organic this and free range that. The hippie hunters are interested in hunting for food, and they are all around this area. We see it all the time when we do shows in Portland, OR. Couple 25-40yo, who are looking for a first rifle...because they want to eat healthy and get a deer (little do they know how hard it is to get one with a general tag in this crazy state).
I think this new group of hunters could really be helpful or it could go completely sideways. YMMV.

 

[lostriverproductions]

The lack of knowledge is what the anti organizations feed off of. Look at American humane society, most of there donations go against anti hunting not animal shelters, but sure is a sad commercial to feed on your emotions. Social media is a new ay to attach us, but its also a way we can fight back.
Check out this episode my buddy Blain created, at least watch the first couple minutes. He made a parody of the HSUS commercials, the facts are real and they are scary.
https://vimeo.com/108039587

And check out Chris Pratt's video on hunting. We need more of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glz7zzKbfhA

 

[HuskyMusky]

Almost everyone I talk to around here doesn't have a clue that you need a tag/license/permit to go shoot a deer or elk or any animal really.

They don't know there is a "hunting season" or a "bag limit"

Honestly most of them think you just park the truck, go into the woods, shoot an animal with your laser rifle... no clue that bullets drop and actually hitting an animal with a rifle is not an easy task.

It's funny when I tell non-hunters I'm applying for pints in Nevada, or Colorado etc..., applying for what?? Yeah it may take 20+ years to draw certain tags, or never... or 5+ years for elk, deer etc...

I think we really need to start publishing some numbers $$ that hunter generate and protecting land/wildlife.

Don't golf courses displace wildlife etc...? Wonder if any of these anti's golf?


on a positive note I do kind of have a hippy buddy who's taken up hunting last few years, was shocked to learn he couldn't hunt deer in a certain unit... or couldn't draw a tag easily...

went elk hunting, "should've had a bull" but messed up got skunked...

went cow elk hunting this year, almost got lucky, skunked again...

Not wishing him any ill will at all of course, but it is humorous that you don't just get out of the truck and drop an elk.

 

[mnhoundman]

Haters gonna hate

Yup! And you can't fix stupid!!

 

[tdcour]

You know, not all are terrible though. My wife had a friend that was truly as anti-hunter as you can get. Her and my wife talked about it quite a bit when they would hang out when I was at the archery range. One day she talked to me about it and said, "I don't like the fact that you are hunting animals, but I can respect the fact that you practice regularly to make sure the animal doesn't suffer." Then we went about on our merry way. I think, as hunters, we need to try and change how some see us. Most see us as hillbillies with guns riding in the back of trucks shooting anything and everything we can when we all know this isn't the case.

I know I'm not going to change an anti-hunters point of view (most likely anyway), but what I can do is represent myself and my hobby as something to be respected. I don't care if you like what I do, but if we can gain some respect and a more positive image that will go a long way. Heck, I don't like pickles, but I can respect anyone who can stomach those nasty things

 

[mnhoundman]

Great right up, and I agree they aren't all bad people. Just bugs me how they have to try and put a hault to hunting all the time.

 

[missjordan]

You know, not all are terrible though. My wife had a friend that was truly as anti-hunter as you can get. Her and my wife talked about it quite a bit when they would hang out when I was at the archery range. One day she talked to me about it and said, "I don't like the fact that you are hunting animals, but I can respect the fact that you practice regularly to make sure the animal doesn't suffer." Then we went about on our merry way. I think, as hunters, we need to try and change how some see us. Most see us as hillbillies with guns riding in the back of trucks shooting anything and everything we can when we all know this isn't the case.

I know I'm not going to change an anti-hunters point of view (most likely anyway), but what I can do is represent myself and my hobby as something to be respected. I don't care if you like what I do, but if we can gain some respect and a more positive image that will go a long way. Heck, I don't like pickles, but I can respect anyone who can stomach those nasty things

Very well said! I haven't received any grief (yet) from a anti in person but the best you can do is represent yourself in a professional manner and educate them respectfully.

 

[packmule]

Hunting has definitely turned into one of those things where if you want to put yourself in the spotlight by participating and promoting yourself, you'd better be prepared for everything that comes with it.

 

[go_deep]

I'll start out by saying I haven't watch a TV hunting show in over 6 years so maybe something had changed. Put yourself in their shoes you have zero knowledge of hunting, you have no one to provide a hunt experience to you, so you turn on your TV to get the only hunting experience you have available to you and in 18 minutes there's some jack off chest bumping, fist pumping, scream about the rack on whatever he/she just shot. I can see how if that's your experience with hunting how you could be turned off a little bit, because some of those very people turn me off by there total lack of respect of the sport, and the animal. I think if the TV shows would spend a little more time addressing herd management, and the animal was talked about more in a feed my family, than it'll score whatever and never have the animal addressed as actual food, it may help some.

I guess what I'm saying is there is a fine line in looking like hunting and looking like a frat party out to kill stuff to hang on the wall.

 

[dustin ray]

We are blessed to have hunting be apart of are life. pass it on

 

[Gr8bawana]

I believe 99.9% of anit-hunters are hypocrates. Just because they let someone else far removed from their perceived realities do the killing for them doesn't change the fact that an animal died for their meat which most of them eat or the leather they wear.
Many of them try to justify it by saying the only buy free range or organic meat products, what a crock!

 

[go_deep]

I believe 99.9% of anit-hunters are hypocrates. Just because they let someone else far removed from their perceived realities do the killing for them doesn't change the fact that an animal died for their meat which most of them eat or the leather they wear.
Many of them try to justify it by saying the only buy free range or organic meat products, what a crock!

I only kill and eat free range animals.

Spending the first 30 years of my life on a farm if they knew what some of the organic and free range operations really looked like they would be sickened.

 

[tim]

steaks come from the grocery store not an animal. come on everyone knows that. lol