Worst Idea Ever...HUNTING ALERT!!! READ & EMAIL!

[Don Thomas]

There's a serious new threat to hunting on the horizon, and as usual it has nothing to do with anti-hunters. Take a deep breath and check the website  www.worldhunt.com  This outfit's aim is to commercialize hunting into some  kind of NASCAR like event, with points, sponsors and big dollar prizes. When a friend first brought this to my attention, I thought it was a joke. It isn't. At our state bowhunter's Board meeting this weekend, we are already planning a response, likely involving a sign-on letter of protest to like minded organizations concerned about hunting's future and image. Meanwhile, get informed and bring it up with your state organizaton. Don

[T. Downing]

Bravo Don! Thanks for the heads up. Checked out the website and I wondered if this was actually real. What a joke, competition amongst hunters is totally unacceptable! Well I guess it is time to become proactive about all this nonsense. God Bless,T

[Raven]

"The Future is Uncertain and Death Is Always Near".....Jim Morrison

 Times are changing.  :confused:      Thanks for the heads up on this matter!

[Steve H.]

I saw a thread on it on the Stickbow earlier today.

Yeah, its worse than a drawlock, didn't think it was possible!

[Stalker58]

What a bunch of crap!
Anyway for someone to make money.
 

[MWM]

I called up the web site and got a blank, black and green screen.  Did this happen to anyone else??

[Terry Green]

Don,

We are preparing a letter an easy way for those who oppose this to contact them.  We were hoping to get this out earlier today....but there's some software or code that we need to make it effortless.

In the mean time....here's some addresses we've found that anyone that cares to can contact.

Media Contacts
Ken Mandelkern
[email protected]

John McCartney
[email protected]

[email protected]
[email protected]

Three sponsors -
G5 Outdoors - [email protected]
Xtreme Scents - [email protected]
Pneu-Dart - [email protected]

[Glenn29]

It never ends!    :mad:  

Thanks for posting this Mr. Thomas and I figured it was just a matter of time after several hunting shows came out with "Team" hunting....I won't name names      

And the sad thing is that there is hunters who think this is a great idea      

P.S. did ya'll watch his little streaming video...makes you sick!

[Van/TX]

I said something derogatory about professional competitive Bass fishing on a major Bass fishing site about 10 years ago.  I was promptly booted off            ...Van

[John Scifres]

There was an article about this in our local paper last week.  Go to the site.  It's an abomination.  A putrid extension, deformation, and cancerous mutation of our hunting heritage.  It goes beyond the disgusting practice of canned hunting.  Beyond the commercialization of every aspect of hunting.  Past online hunting even.  WAY past competitive fishing.

Their listed sponsors are  G5 Outdoors ,  Xtreme Scents , and   Pneu Dart .  You can go to these companies' websites and contact them about the sponsorship to start but more effective may be to go the dealers.  The first 2 list their dealers.  G5 seem mostly small dealers while the scent company look to be the big guys like Cabelas.

Nip this one in the bud!

[vermonster13]

I have been doing quite a bit about this on another forum and have actually had contact with a few of the "people" involved with this. We actually helped two sponsors change their minds about sponsoring this foolishness. I am proud to have the members here step up to the plate on this.

[High Desert Hunter]

After years of obsession with bigger antlers, and all of the TV shows that spur it on, it was only a matter of time until someone took it to the next level. Now there will be whole contests to show just how inept and inadequate I am as a hunter. Hope this doesn't come to be, hunting is already becoming a too expensive obsession of mine, I don't need stuff like this to push it even further into that realm.

[bbassi]

Your never going to change the promoter's mind. The only chance we have in MHO is to hit all the sponsors of this crap HARD and nip it in the bud. Letters of non- suport to every sponsor are needed.
This makes me sick!

[huntwisely]

I have encouraged our Provincial Bowhunting Association members to protest this latest sick endeavor. Wait til the anti's see this one ...

[Jack Shanks]

There was a feature article in the outdoor section of the local newspaper earlier this week about it. I can't say that I'm totally shocked given the content of many TV programs now days. Kind of makes you wonder what this world is coming to?

[vermonster13]

Safari Club Int'l, US SPortsmen's Alliance, and the NSSF are all preparing statements denouncing this charade I have been told.

[bbassi]

Make sure you read their press release.

“We are prepared to lead the hunting industry into new areas of Tour events and state-of-the-art website interactivity that promise to deliver the excitement of hunting to a new audience while showcasing the passion and skills of the professional hunter in full-scale, NON-FATAL competition,” noted Farbman. “The WHA fills a void by providing a platform that benefits the entire international hunting industry today and for generations to come.”

Non-Fatal huh? I wondered why this Pneu-Dart company was sponsoring. Now we know. This just sounds worse by the moment.

[Ray Hammond]

I doubt you will get ANYWHERE with Pneu Dart! Try the other two...

Here is what I wrote yesterday evening

I just read about your company on a website called  www.worldhunt.com.
 
It lists you as a sponsor. Have you actually read what this fellow is proposing to do, and have you then thought about the consequences of this proposal? For crying out loud gentlemen and/ or ladies, you cannot be seriously considering helping this man destroy hunting, can you?
 
I am a life member of the Rocky Mtn Elk Foundation, life member of PBS, founder of Suburban Whitetail Management of North GA, Inc, and state Vice Chairman of the GA Chapter of the NBEF and I have seen a lot of very offensive things in the thirty five years I have been associated with hunting, but I've never seen anything more abominable, more frightening in its potential for harm than this event.

If you insist on continuing as a sponsor of this worldhunt.com I will use every available resource at my disposal to prevent you from selling ANY product to anyone that I have influence over. I will encourage everyone I know to do the same.
 
Consider well the potential for long term harm this project has to the sport that DRIVES your business!
 
I stand ready to be persuaded by you that I am wrong. I seriously doubt, however, that you can muster a cogent, logical appeal that will satisfy my concerns.
 
Ray Hammond

[vermonster13]

This is the operation that will be holding the first event in October


Lost Arrow Resort on the Water

1749 Bomanville Road

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Mailing Address:

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Phone Numbers:

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General Manager: Denise Sterling-Likavec

[Glenn29]

NoN=Fatal..."Catch and Release"----nothing but fuel for the anti's.