Buck I am going to agree with you that we shouldn't be ashamed of ourselves for being hunters. And yes the whole objective to a sucessful hunt is killing an animal.

But we as hunters are only 5% of the US population now, and its not the anti's that need convincing it's the neighbors that we all know that are sitting on the fence.

I presonally work with alot of different people every day that aren't hunters but they aren't anti hunting either, I love getting into discussions about game management and habitat restoration with these people because they are ill informed on the good that hunters have done not only for game animals but the eco system as a whole.

Most response that I get is favorable, but in some of the posts that I have read on these boards have used words like "kill all" and no matter how you look at that even if said in jest can and will be taken out of context to be used against hunters.

It is sad that in this day and age that anyone with a weapon outside of the city is considered a hunter. The reason I say it's sad is because news agencies report things like "Hunter Poaches Elk" or "Hunter Mistakes Horse For Deer".

You and I know that these people aren't hunters but they get lumped in with us just the same. So the only way that we can combat these kind of tactics is to police ourselves.

I know that i am getting a little long winded here, but a certian ammount of tact is acceptable. After all extremeists on either side of the issue are not looked highly upon by the voting public.

In finishing, for anything to live be it man or animal somthing else must die be it animal or plant.

good hunting and KILL a big one

Rogue