Posted on 08/23/2015 5:25:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
Pretty much everything that used to be a given thirty years ago is now seen as cuckoo and/or evil in the United States of WTF.
For instance:
If you believe that a proper marriage is between a man and a woman then according to the “Nuevo Thought Police of The New Millennium” you're a demonic bigot who wants to kill Neil Patrick Harris and hates flight attendants.
Also, if you believe that an able bodied adult should invest in an alarm clock, get off their butt and earn their own cash, and that the government owes us jack squat, then according to the Liberal fascists “you're a capitalistic heartless/soulless pig who loathes the down trodden.“
In addition, if you believe that no matter how much Ryan Seacrest wants you to call Bruce Jenner “Caitlyn” and pretend he’s a she, Bruce will always and forever be ... Bruce, well then, according to Matt Lauer, “you're a hater.” Further, if you inwardly snicker when you behold Bruce on TV lurchin’ around in his size 14 stilettos while he blows the back seam out of one of Kris’ old mini-skirts, then according Gaystapo you’re a “'transgenderphobe who’s unsympathetic with the plight and penchants of the sexually confused.” By the way, for the record, I predict after Seacrest and Jenner milk this facade for two years then Jenner will have an “epiphany”; and go back to being Bruce. You heard it here first.
And finally, if you believe that hunting and providing for yourself and others high protein, low fat, yumminess; and you’re ok with being hands on via hunting with your conservation of land and animals, then according to the Daily Mail you’re a “poaching, murderous mook who's culpable for the mass eradication of lions and elephants all because you sport a small male appendage,” or something to that effect.
Sadly, this is our reality here in the United States of Whiners. As Phil Collins said, “‘this is the world we live in.” And as Satan says, “Welcome to Hell.” Who’d have ever thought that any of the aforementioned would be frowned upon in the Land Of The Free?
So ... how do we, the hunters, traverse this tricky milieu of political correctness that has been foisted upon us who hunt this 3rd rock from the sun?
Herewith are My 10 Commandments for Dealing With Anti-Hunting, Doe-Eyed, Tree-Humpers. Check it out:
1. Be Bold. The Left loves to play the shame game, especially on Facebook. However, as a hunter, you cannot cave to these clowns when they try to cow you into complicity or shame because you put the bam to Bambi. Matter of fact, next time some hipster doofus asks you with that tsk-tsk tone of shock and derision, as he wears leather and eats store bought poisoned meat, “Are you a hunter?”, say, “Yeah, Tinkerpot, I am. What are you?” Now, I wouldn't go looking for trouble but I certainly wouldn't back down. Everyone else is “proud” nowadays. Why shouldn't you be? As a hunter/conservationist you have just cause to walk with your head held high.
2. Get Briefed. Every hunter is an apologist for hunting and hunters and we're either good or bad at it. Get good at it. Make it your sport and have fun informing, and if need be, decimating the anti-hunting cabal with the overwhelming intel of how good hunting is for both animals and our planet. Some great fodder for debate is Frank Miniter’s book, The Politically Incorrect Guide To Hunting, my book Rise, Kill And Eat, The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith and Game Changer by Glen Martin.
3. Feed Your Social Media Feed With Facts As Much As You Do Pics. Great hunters like Simon Barr, Craig Boddington, Larry Weishuhn, Ivan Carter, Shaun Keeny, Dave Fulson and Tom and Olivia Opre have done a fantastic job of Facebooking great memes that succinctly underscore the profound mutli-facteted perks hunting brings to this game of life.
4. Obey The Law (Duh). Never, and I mean never, hunt illegally. When in doubt… don’t.
5. Don’t Chest Thump Over a Kill On Video. If you have a hunting show on TV or if you upload your hunting videos to YouTube, don’t be an idiot and pound your chest over an animal’s life you’ve taken. It’s tacky and that animal you took deserves your respect.
6. Don’t Take Insulting Pics Of Your Animal. Please… for the love of God, don’t stand on your animal or take selfies with your animal or otherwise disparage it and feed the rage of the anti-hunters and then claim you’re being “unjustly persecuted”.
7. Donate Meat. If your freezer is full then give away meat to charities and show that on social media as well.
8. Donate Money. If you’re an outfitter then make sure you give money to charities and continue to spread the hunter's good name by doing good deeds with the proceeds garnered via big game hunting.
9. Defend Other Hunters. Any time an ethical hunter is slammed by the ubiquitous anti-hunters, then go to bat on social media and in conversations when the tree-humpers start spewing their ill-informed venom.
10. And Commandment number 10: lather-rinse-repeat commandments 1-9.
Just dye your skin, get a spear, and claim to be “indigenous.”
I thought there were 3, not 10.
All beginning with "S".
Posts like yours are why Jim needs to add a like button.
How about just one Commandment: Don’t use social media.
I’d rather see a rioting thug shot than a deer.
Not everyone who questions the sensibilities of a fat guy with a sauna in his basement, a good job, and a $57,000 pickup truck shooting a bunch of harmless animals for sport is a tree hugging weenie.
For my part, I’d send that dentist back to Zimbabwe to face the music.
I mostly quit hunting years ago, I got sick of freezing my butt off waiting for the ever elusive deer to wander by. After doing it for 30 years I just said hell with it. Last 3 years I hunted I think I saw a total of 2 deer...and wasn’t able to fire a single shot, both too far away. (I can only use shotgun on the lake bank, corps of engineers rules says no rifled barrels)
I have nothing against those who do, and will probably be out in the back yard this winter with my .22, gotta thin out the squirrels, they’ve been wiping out the peaches and pears long enough. Getting the scope sighted in probably this week...finally got a decent one.
Which reminds me, if anyone has a dead Tasco scope, I need some adjuster screw caps. Damn things cost enough retail I could just buy a new scope...if anyone knows where to find a couple for less than an arm, a leg and at least one testicle, I’d like to know. 3 to 9, one inch tube, 15/16” caps. I put on the ones off a Simmons, but the threads are wrong so I have to make sure they are not tight or they’ll strip. Can’t have that...new replacements are $12 EACH...
Anyway, I have nothing against hunters, I’ve been one most of my life. I have no idea how many rabbits, dove, squirrels, quail I’ve brought home and a few ducks. A couple of deer, but was never too good at deer hunting...
What I don’t care for is trophy hunting. I see no reason to go hunting just to put a mounted head on my wall, when I did hunt deer I wasn’t after the biggest “rack” I could bring in. I wanted the youngest legal deer I could get, older ones are tough.
But trophy hunting makes no sense to me. Most don’t eat what they kill, if it’s not so tough it would make good boot heels... I’ve never taken a picture with my kill, took a picture of it, but not with it...and have never had any urge to go after lion, zebra, elephant, rhino or anything of that nature, and the only time I can justify it is to either eliminate a threat to humans, or a much needed thinning of a herd.
That’s how we roll around here.
Nothing personal but I never understood why folks sit in a tree with food all over the ground waiting for a deer. That’s called sitting not hunting.
I’ve never used a deer stand, feeder or anything else. I go out to hunt for them and have been pretty successful but that’s with a 308 not a shotgun so I get the distance thing and local rules etc.
A distress call works well.
Just another liberal trying to tell hunters not to hunt.
I’m not a hunter, but isn’t feeding the deer called baiting, and isn’t that illegal?
I was never crazy about sitting there either, I can’t sit still enough anyway and usually saw more deer walking around. If you know how to walk, it can actually work better.
What I do is try to walk like an animal. Not necessarily quiet as possible - keep quiet, but take a few steps, stop and look around, take a few more steps, stop and look around. You never see a deer or anything else walk constantly like we humans tend to do. That lets the animals know something different is in the woods. Walk slow, a few steps and stop, I see much more than I ever did sitting in a stand.
Probably the coolest thing I ever saw sitting in a stand...squirrel running around below me, ran up a tree a few feet in front of me and walked out onto a limb about my eye level. Looked it over and jumped, landed right above my right shoulder, his tail hit me in the face when he landed, then ran up the tree...I was actually talking to the little critter...he still jumped and landed practically on my shoulder...
Then there was the Pileated Woodpecker that lit on a tree and started pecking, dropping pine bark chunks all over me...I was sitting at the base of the tree...
These days I hunt, but with a camera. Which I’m about to go do in a few minutes...
Later...
Baiting is legal in some states. There is no reason why it shouldn’t legal everywhere.
A rule that makes baiting illegal, but allows hunting in a corn field, apple orchard, etc., is moronic.
Deer will always be found near food, it is just common sense to hunt near where it is.
I don't either, but I can't bad mouth somebody who does as long as that person is paying the tab and legally taking advantage of some governments MO.
I don't like people sticking their nose in what I'm doing, and I wouldn't blame anyone for telling me to pound sand for any input that I might offer as to what they're doing.
I have to agree with you, while I don’t care for trophy hunting, I also don’t bad mouth those who do, as you said, as long as they are doing it legally and according to the rules of the country they are in.
I agree with your other comment too, if people don’t like it when I hunt or fish, they’re entitled to their opinion, but they can take a hike if they think they are going to give me any grief about it when I’m in the woods. No I’m not politically correct...and damn proud of it...and I happen to like to eat...
There is a white guy on one of the hunting shows that hunts with a spear. Even speared a Cape Buffalo.
All those other commandments are BS, real hunters don’t jack with facebook and social media unless they are promoting their TV show biz.
No, its called FEEDING all the deer and taking one home.
It is not illegal in Texas even so you can shoot them. On our ranch we feed the deer all year so they will come to our game cameras, not so we can shoot them.
There’s hunting and there’s “hunting,” with the latter being the equivalent of salting the area with game cams and putting GPS transceivers on the dogs so that one doesn’t need to learn how to track. The latter isn’t at all sporting.
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