Posted on 09/16/2007 5:05:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Regnery Publishing is about to further bury the loons on the Left with its latest installment in the Politically Incorrect Guide series. Who’s in the crosshairs this time in this destined to be best-selling tome, you ask? Well, honey, it is the frothy and paranormal twinkies on the left who hate hunting and hunters and spread lies about us and the important role hunting plays within the world we live.
Author Frank Miniter, executive editor of American Hunter magazine, is the lucky duck who Regnery chose for the fun job of intellectually thrashing the lying liberals who whiz on our great sport and the vital role it plays in all of our lives.
Frank had to be chuckling with crazy glee as he banged away on his laptop, not just writing his personal opinions or wet-eyed, Disney-fueled feelings but rather the cold, hard, positive and objective empirical data about the truly excellent things that hunters bring—literally—to the table.
Here’s a tiny list, a mere smattering of blistering and irrefutable particulars you will find in the Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting that hunters provide for animals and people, stuff like:
• Hunters donate tons of meat to food pantries, pay the fees that expand wildlife conservation programs, keep national parks preserved, and protect motorists’ lives.
• Hunters are true nature lovers and conservationists and are the first to report poachers who disregard laws that protect wildlife and natural habitats.
• Hunter-funded conservation groups are primarily responsible for bringing back American wildlife that was nearly extinct in the last century.
• Hunting is safer than soccer, football, baseball, cheerleading and ping pong.
• California game managers must wait ‘til a cougar threatens a human before they can rock its world. How sweet. Because of this brain fart, today the number of people that naughty cougars have killed has doubled from what it was before cougar hunting was banned.
• Deer kill ten times the number of people as sharks, cougars, bears and alligators combined, as well as more than commercial airline, bus and train accidents combined.
• When the greenies protected the alligators on Sanibel Island, Florida, the alligators ate the tree huggers and their dogs!
• Bear attacks are at an historic high, and you’re more likely to be attacked by a bear where hunting isn’t allowed—like in a national park.
• Bears with no fear of humans often attack after hearing gunshots—a diner bell that a deer or elk is waiting for them—and thanks to the tree huggers, hunters can’t do anything about it.
• Aviation collisions with wildlife cost $500 million annually.
• Livestock losses to predators cost $71 million annually.
• Hunting protects trees from being destroyed by scavenging deer. Those trees help protect land from erosion and house songbird populations.
• Vegetarians who don’t eat meat because they love animals are eating vegetables from farmers who kill deer, rabbits and vermin that would destroy the vegans’ lunch. Remember that, hypocrites, when you crunch your little baby carrots and worship your edamame beans.
As stated above, this is just a simple sampling of the stonking truths Frank pummels the pro-stupidity anti-hunting cabal with.
However, I don’t expect this book to convert the implacable, closed-to-reality PETA types. Nothing can. They’re gonzo. What this book will do, though, is provide the hunter and the hunter-friendly person with intellectual fodder to defend this primal and noble sport with and significant specifics of why hunting is a must for mankind.
Hunters, you will feel proud and unashamed after you plow through this preponderance of evidence which paints you in the good light you should be painted in. Every hunter should get this pro-hunting compendium, read it, and then declare its contents loud and proud.
Now, let’s see…next weekend I’ve got a wild boar hunt. Yes, it seems that Porky Pig is destroying the tomatoes you vegans love to eat on my buddy’s 7,000 acre south Florida farm. We will shoot as many as we can for you…the vegetarian.
What else? Oh yeah, in November I’m going with my daughter to my friend’s ranch in Texas, and we’ll take an assortment of native and exotic game. In January I’ll be gator hunting in the wild swamps of the everglades, and then in June it’s back to Africa to hunt the cradle’s mighty critters.
Just with these hunts alone, I will put into circulation mucho money which will go to conservation, not to mention that my friends and I will feed hundreds of needy people low fat, high protein yummy meat. What about you, tree humper? How much money will you spend for conservation, and how much food will you provide for the poor in the next few months? I guarantee whatever it is, it doesn’t come remotely close to what the true animal and nature lovers, the hunters, provide.
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You might want to carefully read this article.
(Green armband on my son is for young entry. It was his first hunt.)
We were out with the late lamented Shamrock Hounds, which dissolved two years ago. Northwest GA, Floyd County (where of course General Forrest saved Rome GA and has a large statue in his honor at Myrtle Hill). The hunt country is still in use by the Shamrock Pony Club, and there are hopes of reviving the hunt.
Meanwhile we're out occasionally with the Shakerag or Midland.
I’m sure there are some good intentioned hunters out there....
I'm sure there are... There are also some real arseholes. The hunting world comprises the spectrum of human personality, from angelic to jerk. No matter, the tag and permit fees from all of them go to the same uses.
The PETA kiddies exist and are funded to make timid white people useful to the Left. Since the “Civil Rights” crowd is composed of scary Nazis not so much “opressed” as hate filled the liberals created a safe haven for their timid children to congregate. If you are Liberal Larry or Soccer-Mom Suzy where do you send your kids to LaRaza of NAACP or the animal shelter to help out?
That looks like a Matthews solo cam he has there.I have one myself.Excellent bow.
Nice horse. Handsome son. Nice tree. Good sport. The clothes are gay.
You could make millions coming up with a non European non gay horse riding outfit. Think something along the line of US cavalry with a combat helmet or something :-)
Yep, it’s a Mathews Drenalin ... we each got one this year. Boy is it ever a sweet bow! He got that bull at 53 yards, a shot he never would have taken with his old Oneida.
I’m a spot shooter, currently a constitution. Switching to a Hoyt for the indoor season.
IMHO, hunters are more in tune with and informed about nature than tree hugging hippies will ever be. I grew up in a family full of hunters though and with venison regularly on the table, so I’m a little biased. :)
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
You have to have the close-fitting leather seat breeches, or you will wear your skin off the inside of your thighs in about an hour of hard riding. The high leather boots are to protect the inside of your calf. I have permanent burn scars where the skin was frictioned off about halfway up my calf, where the stirrup leather crosses the lower leg, when I forgot my high boots and tried to get along in blue jeans and a couple of ace bandages (big mistake). The long stock on the white shirt is for use as a sling or bandage in an emergency, and the close fitting black wool Melton coat keeps you from getting hung up in twigs or branches in the woods (the long skirts on the coat are because, yes, sitting in a saddle makes your butt look big - also protect your upper legs from rainwater, nobody stops hunting for a little rain). The hunt cap is to protect your valuable brain (at least, I value mine!!)
What I've really always wanted to do, though, is hunt on a sidesaddle. My mare is fairly elderly though, with the swayback that comes with age and having lots of babies, and a horse has to have a perfectly straight back to carry a sidesaddle.
I hunted a few times here in Germany but gave of the game as unworthy. Not only do they not hunt live fox, they do not even hunt a drag, they do not use Hounds, for that would be against the law, so they tie a tale to a designated rider' s shoulder who becomes the human fox. We merrily pursue the human fox along the pre-set course with some decent jumps and pause halfway through for a picnic washed down with gallons of schnapps. The pre-set course homeward bound can be pretty blurry.
I currently have four horses here, Holsteiner, Hanoveraner, Bayerischs Warm Blut, and a Deutches Reit Pony for the smaller kids. I do some driving too.
I hope your hunt comes back. I miss it.
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