The next person that compares me to PETA, Greenpeace or Nazis, is really going to get an earful.

There is a BIG difference between being opposed and outspoken on an issue, and being a terrorist! You guys talk about diplomacy and talk and patience and mitigation... yet you insult anyone who does not agree with you?

Don't insult me because I hunt over bait... and don't call me a hypocrite because I use bait but oppose high fences. The people who make me sick, other than DF and his merry band, are the ones whodisrespect and insult other hunters just because they don't like how they hunt. If farbman and his buddies want to hunt high fence and and film and have a contest, so be it. They can do their thing... HOWEVER, when you decide you want to portray the big-money, sponsored competition as true hunting, and want to promote that elitist concept to grow our sport, well... it's just one more nit-picking thing that sticks in my crawl. One that REALLY cannot be stood for, else we will see the adverse effect on our already commercialized and elitist past-time. As it is, more and more hunting is going into those game-ranches. Another debate for another thread though........

Farbman is at least being responsive to SOME ofour criticism, I'll grant you that. But there is too much else wrong with his concept to accept it just because the drugs have been eliminated... for now. Generally I accept and adhere to the old saying you catch more flies with honey.... but some things in life should be arbitrarily and unilaterally opposed. Fine, you guys try the "Diplomatic" approach, but you can take politics as your example, don't expect not to get shafted by the guy with more money to throw at his campain.

Meanwhile those of us in the letter writting campaign will continue to keep that revenue stream dwindling.

Who knows, maybe, just maybe there is a way we as hunters could get this thing to come out as a somewhat acceptable concept. However, call me a pessimist, realist, idealist, or even azealot(BUT NOT A PETA, GREENY, OR NAZI), but I have little faith that a money-motivated, ego-driven, self-proclaimed savior, could ever swallow his pride and allow his "dream" to be changed(to be read as completly re-written).

I guess I'll relenquish my soap box now.