Posted on 11/03/2013 11:47:25 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Thoughts on Hunters, this is an interesting slant on things. The world’s largest army; America’s hunters! I had never thought about this, but a blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:
There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin. Allow me to restate that number: 600,000. Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world: more men in arms than in Iran. More than France and Germany combined. These men and women deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania and Michigan’s 700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home safely. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It’s millions more.
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America’s hunters! I had never thought about this, but a blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin. Allow me to restate that number: 600,000. Over the last several months, Wisconsin’s hunters became the eighth largest army in the world: more men in arms than in Iran. More than France and Germany combined. These men and women deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin, to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.
You kin buy a 2 pound stealth payload drone from Florida with a camera and just stick a light multi-barrel`d firearm/gasbomb on the PX and you`ve got an armed UAV Hexopter site`n shoot with 2 mile termination range
As in Syria?
My ancestor who was 70 years old at the Battle of Bunker Hill was with no unit. He came 40 miles with his son to blast the British -son was in no unit. Their in-law Prescott was the only member of the family in a military unit.
My 7 ancestors at the Battle of Saratoga II were farmers with no units-= They just rushed to Saratoga with their pitchforks and muskets coz they heard they Johnny was stuck in a rut and his Hessians rear guards got their butts beat by ragtags.
My ancestors who were seniors picked off the British on their way back from Concord on road ambushes- they were with no military units, just farmers who could make a squirrel lose his nuts at 200 yards `n nothin else.
Better go `n read your genealogies and family bibles and them DAR books.
1777 Sept. “24th Weather delightful. 4 or 5 shot exchanged begtween our [british] forging parties
and the rebels about 9 this morning. Early this morning our pickets in the fear fired at some straggling rebels.
This township of Norrington is very rebellious.
All the manufactures about this country
seem to consist of Powder, Ball, Shot, firearms and swords.
The army halted this day.” “Montresor`s Journal”, Scull, pp421 -474 ff
I have one of those trouble making ancestors in a guy named Ethan Allen.
To doubters, do bear in mind that Tito’s Partisans were mostly civilians with only a few experienced military men (at least before Italy threw in the towel), yet they formed a partisan force that held off the Nazis and even made Stalin, with his millions of soldiers and tanks, blink.
ROE for one. I doubt such rules will be in effect if the government turns on us.
Try to imagine being one of these soldiers or cops on constant guard duty, no matter where he is (the mess hall, barracks, even on leave). Imagine looking at every man, woman and child and wondering if they’re going to pull a gun or throw a grenade. Imagine wondering if every bite of food or sip of drink could be poisoned or have crushed glass in it?
THAT is why partisan warfare is the nightmare of regular soldiers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfeWglkjxW0
The surveillance cameras at intersections of every main urban road and the interstates can all be disabled in 24 hours. The very same technicians who installed or manufactured them have all the details on how to do it.
For a veteran who has arthritis to go up against a team of cops or soldiers is foolish but after the shift is over and that cop or soldier is at home with his family it is very simple to take him on while he is standing in the backyard bbq’ing the hot dogs with a beer in his hand.
In the event of a civil war it won’t take very long before being a cop in uniform or driving a cop car would make you a target for the nearest sniper.
The Chineese can field 200 mil..at least.
Interesting...kinda like 3D printing a lower receiver...very informative post! Thanks
That’s all very cool. There were certainly a lot of folk who lived out in the sticks and therefore didn’t practice with the organized militia units in the New England towns. A lot of them just showed up at Concord, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga and augmented the firepower of the organized militia and Continentals. Still that doesn’t make the unorganized folk an army, nor change the fact that there was an army to glom onto. The Revolution wasn’t just a spontaneous uprising, it took a lot of hard work and organization to make it happen.
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