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To: ccmay
Not exactly; in my experience they are perceived as callous, out-of-touch, rich, idle, aristocratic twits. And there is much truth to the stereotype

Especially if we're talking about people like Zumbo whose hunting is financed for him by big companies. The rest of us have to scratch out a little meat from 1 or 2 acre plots between the other hunters.

52 posted on 02/18/2007 12:48:21 PM PST by Terriergal (All your church are belong to us! --- The Purpose Driven Church)
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To: Terriergal
Especially if we're talking about people like Zumbo whose hunting is financed for him by big companies. The rest of us have to scratch out a little meat from 1 or 2 acre plots between the other hunters.

The Jim Zumbos of the world do their "hunting" on leases where memberships cost thousands of dollars a year, but since he's a member of the media he gets to go on these hunts for nothing. His weapon will be some state-of-the-art tricked out race gun that probably costs more than a luxury car, fitted with thousands of dollars worth of optics and again, provided to him for free because the manufacturer wants him to evaluate it. All of his other gear will be the same - top of the line, brand new stuff provided to him by the manufacturers for evaluation.

When a Jim Zumbo goes out into the field, it's with an army of assistants, photographers and guides who do everything but carry him out to the site to wait for an animal, let him pose with his trophy, and then field dress it and take it out and back to the $500/night lodge where he's staying for free. We can't have him getting his shiny new camoflage coat all messy with that icky deer blood, after all.

The Jim Zumbos just can't relate to the average guy who wakes up at 3:00 AM on a Saturday or Sunday morning, drives his pickup out to the public land he's scouted out (or maybe it's a lease site he managed to scrape a few bucks together to buy into), humps his way into the woods to his stand with his off-the-shelf Remington 700 ADL or surplus military rifle, and hopes to get a shot in at a decent animal but often doesn't because a hundred other guys just like him are also stomping around in the woods hoping for the same thing he is and the animals have fled. And since a Jim Zumbo can't relate, he looks down on these guys with utter contempt, and casually proclaims them to be barbarians and savages who "give sportsmen a bad name."

There may be a species more obnoxious and insufferable than the hunting snob, but I can't think of what it might be.

143 posted on 02/18/2007 4:34:13 PM PST by CFC__VRWC (Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
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