Originally posted by emt137:
It's sad that it's gotten so bad. I know when I lived in the Thumb of Michigan city folk would come to the country to hunt waterfowl. They'd track the locals to the fields they went to then the city slickers would hide out in culverts on the side of the roads and wait for the locals to call their birds in the the city guys would cut loose on the ducks and geese. Lots of honest hunters lost permission to hunt fields because of such tomfoolery.
It's also sad that that many people don't have any desire to respect the sacrifice the animal made to the hunter by letting people honestly retrieve their kill. I would have no issue at all leaving my bow or shotgun in my vehicle while I went to look. I'd have nothing to hide.
Pat
Well, I have heard that the number of hunters are decreasing. People aren't nearly as outdoors oriented as they used to be. Air conditioning,TV, soda, and video games.
I have run across a large contingent of people that have grown more crazy with their antihunting ideas. People are becoming SO disconnected with tradition and the woods that they fail to recognize that hunting is a very natural part of being human in the most basic sense.
To them, meat comes in styrofoam packages from the store. It's partly due to popular TV culture where the youth have grown up seeing nothing but anthropomorphized animals on TV (those with human traits) and along with it comes lunatics that think that animals should basically be recognized as humans. It's kind of sad to see how people are changing.
They are hypocrites. They love their tasty chicken and beef from the grocery store, just as long as some faceless meat packing worker does the killing.
There are even efforts to end hunting in parts of America. Look at what its done in places like Pennsylvania where areas are off limits to hunting. The deer populations have grown out of control and pose a very serious threat to motor safety.
When I have kids I plan to carry on a tradition of hunting that wasn't passed on to me. I started hunting on my own because when I was young it was an adventure for me. I didn't grow up with a father that new anything about the outdoors. I have taught myself just about everything I know. I taught myself about fishing, fly fishing, fly tying, firearms, bows, hunting, kayaking, etc. It would have been cool if I had someone in my family to do these things with while growing up, but it's not important to a lot of folks, including my family members.
So, it doesn't really surprise me that some people up North refuse to allow hunters to retrieve game and, as mentioned once before in this thread, "Teach the hunter a lesson." There are plenty of scummy people out there with no sense for tradition and hunting. My father and other family members are even like that. They don't care abotu hunting or putting out the effort to do it properly, but they will kill an animal. However, they aren't hunters. It frustrates me to even have to deal with them because I do things properly.
Topic: Ever denied permission to retrieve an animal? (Read 870 times)
