"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!!!"
Posted on 12/03/2004 6:27:41 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John
Some of the usually reserved residents of a gated community are in the cross hairs of rock star and hunting activist Ted Nugent, who is backing local leaders' plans to cull deer.
But residents on both sides don't like the attention.
"This is out of control," said Richard Scobee, president of Wynstone Estates, an upper-class subdivision in North Barrington where guests need approval from a resident to get through the front gate.
Wynstone leaders have proposed a bow hunt in the coming weeks to kill off half a herd, about 40 deer, that they say is eating thousands of dollars' worth of landscaping and endangering drivers.
The Motor City Madman, as Nugent is sometimes called, is on their side, though they didn't really invite him into the debate.
Nugent, perhaps best known musically for his rendition of "Cat Scratch Fever," first came on the scene when a local trustee played a video at last week's board meeting that featured him howling as he killed various animals with arrows at his sprawling game ranch in Texas.
The short clip was meant to stir emotions against bow hunting, but a majority of officials still approved a plan to allow the Wynstone hunt.
A few days later, Wynstone resident Carol Bieniek, who opposes the hunt, gave a local radio interview in which she called Nugent a "redneck."
Enter Nugent: "My critics are soulless. They try to fault me for participating in the proven assuredness of the renewable harvest," he responded in an interview Thursday with the Daily Herald.
Nugent, who spent his late teen years in Palatine, is somewhat of a self-proclaimed chief for hunting activists. He has written several books on the topic, including "Kill it and Grill it" and "BloodTrails: The Truth about Bowhunting." The rock guitarist, who has produced 29 albums since the late 1960s, is a frequent television and radio guest in his crusade to promote conservation and hunting.
"I started bow hunting on my father's back before I could walk," he said. "I have been anointed in God's tooth-and-claw nature system, and I bow to its authority."
The hunting groups Nugent works with promote bow hunting as a safe and responsible means of thinning herds in suburban areas where they could hurt drivers.
"That is a win-win for the environment, the society and the critters," he said.
That reasoning jibes with Wynstone's leaders. However, they preferred to keep the matter under his and the news media's radar.
"Things can be misunderstood and misinterpreted," Scobee said. "When the media blitz is done, then everything becomes a mockery."
Yet Bieniek seems pleased with Nugent's involvement.
"Maybe it has been good for us," she said. "It shows this is the type of person these bow hunters look up to."
Still, the attention is wearing on her.
"I'm not an activist. I'm a mom and I have stuff to do around here," she said. "I have to put up my Christmas tree."
kill bambi? YUM!!!
Kill it & grill it.
One of theose arrows could go through a school. Imagine the carnage!!
Are these ASSAULT bows??
"Maybe it has been good for us," she said. "It shows this is the type of person these bow hunters look up to."
She will be the first to complain when a deer comes crashing through the windshield of her BMW. She will probably sue too.
I've hit three of the overpopulating creatures here near the city. Terrible Ted knows what he's talking about.
And thin a few tires on a couple of Wynstone Land Rovers and H2's while he's at it...
Well, if deer are bad because they mess up the decorative plantings in the ritzy gated community, but actually killing them is bad, wtf?
Or is it the method they abhor? If they're anti hunter, maybe they'd rather a wolfpack instead. I've no doubt wolves could take care of the deer problem.
Schadenfreude
Ted Nugent, Michigan's next governor.
:-)
Gotta love it.
I love America.
I've never lost an arrow yet, and they aren't cheap at around $20 ea. not including broadhead. Bow hunters do not shot arrows all over the place, each shot is carefully planned, the result of careful planning and hours of patience.
This digbat woman obviously has no idea what bow hunting is all about.
He's not really as nutty as media portrays him. He's actually quite a serious Sportman, not a bad shot either, but I've "william telled" (split my own arrow) more arrows than he has.
There have been 400 deer collisions in this region so far this year, 3 deaths. Think about what that does to insurance premiums costs. There are just too many deer around, due to a decline of hunters. This is no good to both deer, as they tend to starve to death during severe winters, plus it causes a population explosion of predators like coyotes and wolves, whose numbers increase proportional to food supply. I've seen a few deer with a hunk of hind bitten off, but somehow managed to get away, only to suffer and starve later.
Hunting is a good, and cheap conservation method. It funds conservation officers as well, so taxpayers don't have to.
These anti- hunter types just don't think about the cost and effects of their actions. Hunting helps keep deer herds healthy as well.
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