So who's throwing out insults?

I also live in the USA. It is my country too, and I proudly served 3 years defending it.

From reading Pete's posts the past few years, I get the impression that he does most of his hunting within a hundred miles or so of his Colorado mountain home. That seems to be his world, fine. And if that is the world that he likes, fine also. But compared to the rest of the world, that is a pretty small area.

I would venture a guess that a vast majority of hunters do most of their hunting within a hundred miles or so of their homes. When I lived in Colorado almost all of my hunting was done within a hundred miles of my home. In the 40 years that I have lived in Montana, other than antelope hunts in the eastern part of the state, all of my Montana hunting has been within 200 miles of my home. Compared to the rest of the world, Colorado is a small area, Montana is a small area. Those are just simple facts.

And then Pete posted comments like " I don't know what half of those animals are" and "I never wanted to hunt animals I never heard of. I never wanted to hunt Africa, so why should I research it?"

So I came to the conclusion that Pete likes his world in Colorado, and basically doesn't give a hoot about Africa, and I posted "I guess some people just like to live in their own small world." So what? Many of us live in our own small worlds. Where's the insult? Where's the disrespect?

At least I've opened my "OWN small little mind" to the fact that we live in a big world that is loaded with a great variety of places and animals that are available for us to visit and hunt, and I've tried to enjoy some of that world.