I agree with Arthur. I also need to say that when push came to shove.....hunters will band together no matter what legal weapon is being used.

FYI and this is only my opinion.........the biggest threat to hunting is the loss of land to hunt due to several factors. While access to land is coming harder to come by, the average hunter is being forced to pay huge prices to lease or hunt public land, and public land can be crowded sometimes.

As for fuel for the antis, more damage is done by trophy fee hunting, and small high fence operations that are nothing more than a meat factory. For example, several non-hunters at work have no problems with hunters or hunting. A few of them do have a problem with the unscrupulous operations that seem to find a loophole in the law to stay in business, because they told me so during a discussion. What amazed me was the fact they knew or heard about these operations and I had never mentioned it. [X(]