Here is what I learned from this year's Bear referendum in Maine. Everyone has a right to express thier opinion, and when they do, they drive the wedge deeper and deeper within the hunting community. As a result, the anti hunters have an easier job of divideing and conquering. I was appalied and sadden this past year in Maine when so many hunters voted to ban bear hunting over bait, with dogs and trapping here in Maine. They reasoned that it wasn't sportman like. They didn't think it would lead to further hunting rights being taken away. The good news is that we defeated the referendum. I once had a lot of opionions about methods of hunting, typs of weapons and other hunting related stuff. Having just spent a fair amount of time working to deafeat the Bear referendum I can tell I now have only one opinion to share. How you hunt, and what you hunt with as long as it is legal is just fine with me. I support all typs of hunting, and if thier are methods or weapons I don't nessasarily like I simply don't particiapte. To each his own. The original poster may want to read the latest release from the US Sportsman alliance about the merger of the Humane Society of the US and the Friends of Animals. They now have a 95 million dollars a year anti hunting group. They have recently said they will focus first on banning bow hunting. Why, for exactly the reason we have in this thread. They know that many bow hunters and gun hunters are divided against each others sport and they think it is an easy target. Re-read this entire thread, it speaks for it's self. Please don't speak against other forms of hunting, and more importantly, bring someone new to the sport, our future depends on it.