ORIGINAL: quiksilver

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The NRA is a PRO-GUN group, NOT a PRO-HUNTING group.

They spend millions trying to sell themselves as a group that cares about outdoorsmen - in a veiled effort to drum up as much $$$ as possible - but when the rubber meets the road, they'll cutbowhunters' collectivethroats in a heartbeat. They don't care about bows. They don't care about conservation. They don't care about wildlife management. They just want the most liberal gun laws possible.

Obviously, there is a direct conflict of interest there.

If you think thatthere is some overlap between gun rights and hunting, you're probably right. However, when you really look at things, the two issues aren't nearly as interwoven as one would think.

Put it this way: I'm in the woods at least 75 times/year. Of those 75, I have a gun in my hand for a maximum of 8 hunts. Of those times when I DO take a gun out, those weapons are not the type of firearms that the NRAwastes millions of hunter dollars"protecting."

I don't hunt with assault weapons and handguns.

Toborrow a line frommy buddy-Iwouldn't piss on the NRA ifthe headquarterswas on fire.

I mean, I respect what they do. It's just not anything that I care about. It just bothers me when I see fellow hunters being snowed into believing that the NRA is here to save deer season. It's not.