Nobody is saying that you should turn your heads to things that are morally or legally wrong in the hunting world. Poachers and slob hunters give the rest of us who are truely passionate and care about this sport a bad name and of course we need to differentiate them from real hunters. I'm talking about people fighting about using crossbows or wearing activated carbon clothing or hunting on a 10,000 acre high fence ranch in Texas. Things that are legal, ethical, and nothing more than a personal preference regarding the way you choose to hunt.

The weapon or methods you use to harvest any game animal does not make you better or worse than any other hunter who persues animals legally and ethically. The person who takes a trophy with a 7mm is just as much of a sportsman as the person who takes their first forkhorn buck with a recurve bow as long as the reason they take to the woods each fall is the same. When are we going to stop worrying so much about finding faults in other people's methodoligy and simply be happy for a hunter who is successful?