There is a difference between commercialization within the industry to servethat specific audienceand perversion of a pastimeto reach an entirely different audience, who doesn't care anyways...

Its the american dream to make a living doing what you love to do... I wont argue that. What really sticks in my crawl though is the concept of drug and release of deer, for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash. Add in the high-fence debate and you've got more than enough to argue against it.

It wouldalso helpif "Mr. Farbman" was at all involved in any conservation or hunting promotion prior to this endeavor. Having worked in the mortgage industrypreviously, I can tell you without hesitation that the type of person required to be sucessful in the commercial real estate business, is not the type of shark I want leading an organization of hunters. Thats not an assumption, and not an attack,thats an opinion based on my own past experience.

Had the WHA not decided to pander to the non-hunting/anti-hunting masses, and not gone with the "non-lethal" concept, I seriously doubt it would have caused a such a stirlike it has. But Farbman caved to political-correctness and decided to twist our beloved past-time into something its not. Which if you take that twisted, distorted version of hunting and present it to the public, they will think that the "unecessary" death of the animals is barbaric and should be outlawed. We as hunters are at the mercy of the non-hunting general public andpresenting to them of the fallable concept of darting being the more humane version of hunting, will ultimately lead to the inability of Joe A. Hunter to feed his family with venison. I'm already beginning to get the question asked of me bymy non-hunting in-laws... "why kill them, you could tranquelize them and still get the same thrill...." all because of this mess.

Why do the pro-WHA guys on here lack the foresight to see what's going to happen? I understand Farbman ignoring it, because all he stands to do is get rich, so who cares... but why are red-blooded american hunters actually supporting this scharade? Why would they sacrifice the future of hunting for "entertainment"?

Short and simple, the WHA is no good for hunters. It's good for farbman and his backers. Otherwise don't you think outdoor companies would be lining up to sponsor it?It wouldn't surprise me at all to see Walmart on the list of sponsors. They started selling America's soul long before the WHA was ever around, but that's another story for another time.