Posted on 10/22/2004 9:41:43 PM PDT by neverdem
Some sportsmen fear that gun rights would be curtailed
Chequamegon National Forest, Wis. -- John Myhre, a 57-year-old hunting guide, stopped abruptly on the trail layered with orange pine needles and slowly began to raise his Russian- made shotgun.
"Bird," he breathed out. A moment later, a ruffed grouse soared from the growth of young poplar trees, flushed into the transparent, crispy morning air by Myhre's hunting dog, Ruff. Batting its wings so heavily the air around it seemed to quiver, the bird disappeared into the receding amber foliage of the forest before Myhre could fire a shot.
Myhre turned around. He was beaming.
"It's not the killing part that's important in hunting," said Myhre, who operates the Sportsman's Lodge on Moose Lake in Hayward, in northwestern Wisconsin. "The greatest thing about hunting is the part that we can be out here, in nature, in the woods. It's the fact that you can see the color of the leaves, smell the smell of the wood, hear the bird flush."
Hunting, Myhre said, is "our passion ... our livelihood."
This fall in Wisconsin and some other battleground states, hunting also is a loaded election-year issue.
Many hunters in Wisconsin and elsewhere worry that their right to hunt is at stake, despite repeated pledges by President Bush and his Democratic challenger, Sen. John Kerry, to support gun rights and hunting. The hunters' concern has made the issue of gun ownership "real important motivators for potential voters" in Wisconsin, where polls show a close contest, said Jeff Mayers, editor and publisher of WisPolitics.com, a nonpartisan politics Web site.
In Hayward, Myhre's hometown of 3,279 people, schools close each year for a nine-day deer-hunting season in November and children customarily go on their first hunt at age 12.
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Kerry has a perfect score with the gun control group The Brady Foundation.
To me, it is the fresh meat... So hurry up and shoot me dat bird Bubba!
Amen, if gun rights are important to voters, Bush is the choice.
Hate to tell 'em this, but my guns ain't for hunting.
Unless Rat season opens.
How about his Hero award from the humane society that wants to end hunting altogether.
How about his Kerry's Hero award from the humane society that wants to end hunting altogether.
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Kerry will make sure this guy is unemployed ...
Like VP Cheney said after seeing Kerry's hunting photo ops with Kerry dressed in camoflauge.
Cheney said that Kerry's outfit clashed with his record....
The Big Lie on the march, courtesy of the DNC, the sycophant media, and that phony puke Kerry. This wimp would be eaten alive by gerbils if he ventured into the outdoors without his handlers. God save us all.
We got the guns...they got the goons...
They have every reason to fear. J. Effin sKerry would love to ban ALL private ownership of firearms.
I'm with you.
This is a bit off topic, but Kerry isn't doing well with wrestling fans, either! :-)
On Monday Night RAW, Shawn Michaels was asked why he should get a world title shot. He mocked Kerry's arrogant speech tone and said "I have a plan to win the title", but then said he couldn't reveal the plan until after he was granted the title shot.
On the PPV the next night, fans got to vote for some of the matches. They voted 68% for the main event to be a cage match. Commentator Jim Ross called it a landslide, and doubted either presidential candidate would win that big. Co-host Jerry Lawler said Bush probably won't get 68% of the vote, but he should!
In other news, the AFLAC duck endorsed Bush today.
So... is Kerry's phony pretentious Goose Kill photo-op having any effect?
Is anybody stupid enough to buy it??
The Talking heads on ALL networks must of missed this memo!
They were all fixed on the Women vote.
"It's not the killing part that's important, it's the photo ops", John Kerry
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