Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

Fellas - we always hear how "we need to give bowhunting a shot in the arm"or "broaden the reach of our sport."
The WHA promises to give hunting a boost.
This seems to be a blanket argument for many changes in our community.

So my question is, Why? Seriously, I can't figure out why we need to give hunting a boost. I can't come up with a single good reason other than the almighty dollar. We already have an overpopulation of hunters on public land and dwindling areas to hunt otherwise due tooutfitters buying up as much land as they can get to.

I am not whinning and am open to suggestion - perhaps I am overlooking something very obvious.

I definately see a need to PRESERVE our traditions and hunting heritage. But isn't this best accomplished on a personal level where morals and ethics are taught one-on-one, in person?

The only reasons I can see for giving archery, hunting,or bowhunting a "shot in the arm" is to sell more equipment, videos, and magazines. How can any of that be good for our community when there is already too much of it... think Jimmy Houstonin a high fence enclosure with a drugged deer in order to get a "good shot" on video.

No Sir, I DON'T think our sport needs to be advanced. I suspect that is only an excuse to do our community harm.

But... I am open to suggestion.

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

Couldn't agree more HAZCON. I think the progression of things are detrimential to the overall good of the sport. The canned hunts, the commercialism and the all mighty dollar are the only things progressing in hunting.

All I can do is continue to do the things my Father instilled in me and speak my opinion when given the opportunity.

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

FINALLY somebody that sees things the way that I see them.:DI beleive that we need to introduce new people to hunting but to me hunting is just that "hunting". Not harvesting or any other of the new words that have come along from getting pollitically correct people into it. To me it is and always will be getting up early in the morning and going out with the hopes of KILLING something.

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The only thing we need is more PETA's running into deer with there Volvo's.

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I agree:D

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

The biggest emphasis we should have is hunter recruitment,young people as well as other age brackets.We need this to have clout politically,if our numbers continue to dwindle so does our influence.
I am very much against commercialism of any form relating to hunting,we need to have people understand the great aspects of the entire hunting experience.IMO

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

You make a good point about adding to the Army, however we have to be real careful to paint a true picture of what hunting is.......not the production that is seen on TV every evening.

I am all for getting more and more children into hunting, but I am not for a smoke a mirror show that presents hunting as something it is not just to add numbers.

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

I agree with you.

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

Well said, tv screws us every time a hunting show is aired.

RE: Does it really Advance our Sport???
 

what else are you against ?

ATV's ? Mechanical broadheads ? 85% letoff ? High fenced farms ? Preserves ?

You see, its not just WHA type activities that chip away at what hunting was. And I say was ............ because hunting has already lost much of what it was.

The advances in technology and gadgets have just as much an impact ......... all in the name of making hunting easier and better and to get more people involved.


Is WHA needed ? No it isn't, no more so than when Fred Bear coined the phrase " be a two season hunter "