Really?

Are you saying that you are NOT attempting to persuade HNI to remove that particular advertiser? Or other advertisers that do not fit into your personal beliefs of what is ethically/morally correct as it pertains to hunting?

Don`t get me wrong.....I am 100% confident that you, and others on this thread are doing what you truly feel is best for our hunting future.

I am also confident, due to my many, many years of hunting, and seeing subjects like this unfold, that your well intentioned ideals are detrimental in the long run.

I do not care to participate in a guaranteed elk hunt....I am pretty certain just how that hunt would be. That being said.....we, as hunters, are less than 10% of the US population. Anti hunters are almost exactly the same number. Those are NOT the people we need to worry about.

Groups like PETA, ALF, ELF, and HSUS, to name a few, only have one fina goal...to end ALL forms of hunting. Period.

With a strong and unified stance, we as hunters can easily portray the anti`s as the domestic terrorists they really are. We should NEVER apologize for our legal hunting methods. We should NEVER apologize for legal business ventures.(such as high fence establishments)

We do not have to take part in activities like that, but many people for a variety of reasons do participate in them. Those same people also participate in hunting just like you and I prefer. And those people, on average, have more money to fight anti`s than you and I do.

IF.....we allow, or even worse yet, help the anti`s to put an end to high fence hunting, that is allowing them a foothold on the climb they are undertaking.....which is to end ALL hunting, fishing, and trapping in this country.[:@]

Please do not think for one minute that the anti`s would slow down a whit after taking HF hunting from those of us who participate.

And one thing is certain, right after high fenced hunts, comes bowhunting.[]

When you eat a hamburger, that cow was not given a sporting chance to escape, and that is OK. Animals are here for our use.

Beyond the hunting morality aspect of high fenced operations comes an aspect of much greater importance.......private property owners rights.

Who the heck am I to tell a man or woman who owns property that they cannot erect a high fence, then purchase privately owned elk, deer, etc., and then charge a fee to hunt/kill them?

That secenario is no different than using one`s private property to erect a building, buy grocieries, and sell them to the public for a profit.

Sorry for the long winded reply, but I am attempting to channel a fellow hunters energy to HELP all hunters, not to help divide us for easy conquer.