Good point wihunter402. Though today it seems most unlikely that hunting will be abolished, what the antis hope for is the opportunity to ease in a little at a time if hunters should ever become complacent. They will never take on the hunting community as a whole. That would be foolish on their part. How they will go about it is little by little, very subtly. This strategy can work very well with the general non-hunting public if we don't remain vigilant of their motives.


I've never read the book, but I've come across some good quotes from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War":

“Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.”

“In war, numbers alone confer no advantage.”

“To ... not prepare is the greatest of crimes; to be prepared beforehand for any contingency is the greatest of virtues.”

“What is of the greatest importance in war is extraordinary speed: One cannot afford to neglect opportunity.”

“If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.”

"In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not more than two methods of attack - the direct and the indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. The direct and the indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle - you never come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination?"

"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will arrive exhausted."

"The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable."

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt."

Let's face it - I only dream about infiltrating an anti group. I don't have the energy or time. It wouldn't work when they figured me out, so I would have to be like one of them, then I would be accused of actually being one.

Our bigger enemy is lousy, disrespectful hunters and poachers. They give the anti's more free fuel than they ever ask for. I know this applies more to rifles than bows, but it goes all ways. We have to police ourselves.

While the anti's are not to be feared, we can't ignore them either. I'm an SCI member and hope you all support some pro-hunting group, too.

We have state laws protecting hunters from harassment by these people. Some people were busted in our state recently for interfering with a lawful hunt. My neighbor (woman) sometimes bangs pots and pans when she sees me go in the woods. I shot a doe last year while she was doing it as the deer was used to it and ignoring her. She was annoying me more than anything. Called the DNR and they went to her house and informed her she was breaking the law. Haven't heard her do it since.