Even though below is true.


WASHINGTON, DC - Spending over $70 billion dollars a year in pursuit of their pastime, America’s hunters and anglers would rank #11 on the Fortune 500 if they formed a corporation, according to a new report released today by the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation and the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Over 38 million Americans enjoy the outdoors - twice the number of labor unions members - and sportsmen support 1.2 million jobs, well more than Wal-Mart™, the country’s largest employer. American sportsmen are a demographic group worth a closer look.
“Because sportsmen enjoy hunting and fishing alone or in small groups, they are often overlooked as a constituency and as a substantial economic force,” notes Melinda Gable, Executive Director for the Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation. “These impressive statistics actually underestimate the impact of sportsmen since they do not take into account the millions of hunters and anglers under 16 years of age, and people who were not able to get out and hunt or fish in 2001.”

Even through we belong to tons of organization and do everything we can to promote this way of life.

We have no voice in the general public.

Look at two great songs.

Tracy Byrd - Pass It On - Song from his Wonders of Wild Life Album, most have never heard of it and most Radio station never heard of it or played it or have it.

As a hunter and a father this song just makes me proud and even a tear in my eye on how true it is.

Now a new song by New Song by Hank Williams Jr.

Outdoor Lovin' Man - The Almeria Club - Album

Even though I request it and have listen to a couple of time it is a excellent way to voice who we are and look today and it is not even in the top 40.

Maybe I am making to much of this but is it us are we to divide or is it them and they won't let us be shown but in a negative way.

Don't get me wrong we have come along way. 3 channels on TV. Outdoor Radio shows on lots of different stations, Newspaper columns on hunting.

But just everyday broadcast in the news local and national. Just dosen't happen.

Are we this weak? Who has the control?


Host of The Missouri Sportsmen's Radio Show

www.mosportsmen.com

The statistics are certainly amazing when you look at them. People fail to realize what an economical giant sportsmen provide. From what I was told: 10% of the people in the nation are pro hunting (take an active part and are for it). 80% of the people in the nation don't have an opinion either way (it is what it is and it doesn't affect them). 10% of the people in the nation are strictly anti-hunting!! So you take all the before mentioned statistics and the $$$ and jobs created by hunting/fishing. That's only by 10 % of the people in the nation making that much of an impact on our economy. As far as the local news and media and lack of exposure.......everyone is scared of the anti-hunting 10%. Can't promote a bunch of maniacs killing everything that moves!!!! unfortunately perception is reality and we are perceived as crazy people going on a killing spree to some people. It is interesting though(if my percentages are correct)that if you take the 10% of pro hunters and the 80% of it doesn't matter people....that's 90% of the nation!!!!! And yet we cater to and are afraid of stepping on the other 10%?????/ Doesn't make sense. The sad thing is you'll never make sense of it to the anti-hunters.

Titleist: unfortunately that is the way of the liberal thinking in America today. Not just with hunting. They win, not through the legislature that write the laws, but through the liberal judges interpreting the law. That's why civil suits have run amok, Under God phrases are under attack, can't fly the flag in certian areas, and all religions are due a fair shake unless it's christianity. I am active duty Air Force and for the last 18 years I've paid the price so these people have the freedom to do what they do. For that I'm reviled for my hunting, mistrusted because I'm military, and ridiculed for my conservatism. Hunter's generally hold the same core values that their grandparents had, where liberals tend to have to invent new off the wall values every generation. They need to hate us.

THWACK!