[Vaquero]

great stereo thinking guys....

You know, back in the 50s/60s when I started to read Hunting magazines, a common nickname for a hunter was ‘nimrod’... people like Jack O'Connor, Elmer Keith, Ted Trueblood, or Byron Dalrymple would toss this term out as a non critical description of one who stalked game....taken from the biblical King, Nimrod the Hunter, who built the tower of babel.

I do not know when, why, or where the first depiction of a ‘Nimrod’, as a moron occurred...but it denigrates hunters everywhere....

[xone]

why, or where the first depiction of a ‘Nimrod’, as a moron occurred

It is in your post:

taken from the biblical King, Nimrod the Hunter, who built the tower of babel

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