As hunters, we’ve all probably encountered opposition from non-hunters at one time or another. What’s sad though is when we face opposition from within our own ranks. This type of prejudice is very well what could be our downfall one day. All the anti-hunters have to do is focus on these internal divisions and watch us tear ourselves apart.
Since my post Hunting Prayers and Rituals, I have had a few inquiries from hunters wanting to know where to look for information so they could find prayers to say over their kills. I wish I could say I’m going to give a long list of resources on the web for them to look over, but I’m not. Why? Because they tend to be rather hard to find.
Wouldn’t it be so much easier to shoot your line out into the water than having to cast it? Well, that is exactly what you can do with the Rocket Fishing Rod, pictured above. Now you can fish almost exactly like you hunt!
I saw a commercial for it while watching fishing shows with my oldest son over the weekend. While I definitely don’t see it being something for the entire family, I do see the benefit of it for the primary target user…the kids. In fact, being so close to Christmas, and knowing the kids want some fishing gear under the tree, I’m seriously considering this for all three of them.
The pendulum of political correctness is in constant motion and you never know where a word or phrase is going to fall on its varying arc of acceptability.
For years I’ve referred to the killing of deer as harvesting when talking to certain people. It isn’t a term I generally use when talking to close friends or other hunters. On the contrary, it is when talking to those people who I don’t know if they hunt or even what their feelings on hunting may be that I use the word harvest. Otherwise, I say kill or killed.
I’ve written before about seeing big cats in North-Eastern Oklahoma. But if you ask the normal, every day person, they’ll likely laugh at you or think that you’re crazy. And if you’re brave enough to say that you’ve seen a bear, prepare for an even bigger laugh. But it’s true.
When I first started this blog, I had a lot of plans for it. Being a writer, I had the same excitement for it as I do when I begin a new story. But, like it is with writing long stories, the excitement starts to fade, it gets harder to keep writing, and you wonder if you should have ever started it in the first place.
It seems to be getting more and more common for me to not make posts than it is for me to make them. I have to admit, I have been struggling quite a bit lately with the motivation to write. I thought that the changes and new additions I made may help me overcome it, but they didn’t.
I had a lot of posts either ready, or planned, and after looking at them, I either decided they weren’t that great, or that I couldn’t do them justice. I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that I like to consider myself a writer, and that I have been struggling with whether I should or shouldn’t do that. I look at some of the things that I have written and I’m extremely proud of them. But most, I look at and all I see is a lot of rambling choked full of mistakes. And then I figure what’s the use in pretending.
I’ve always enjoyed carving our Hallowe’en jack-o-lanterns, but have only started trying to do more complicated designs the last two years. Last year I did a design with RJ the raccoon from Over the Hedge. This year I decided to go with a pair of wolves in a wooded setting. Unfortunately, I haven’t discovered a way to get a really good picture of a lit pumpkin yet, so the one above looks a bit blurry.
While out taking a look at some of the newest toys for Christmas, I ran across something interesting. New Ray has out a series of different hunting and fishing play sets, all similar to the Moose Hunting one pictured above. Up until now, the only toys directly related to hunting that I was aware of were the Hunter Dan line of toys. I’m glad to see others joining him.
I know I’ve ranted about these sort of things before, but I have to do it again after watching the newest CSI: New York episode, Down the Rabbit Hole.
During the course of the investigation, they discover a tick on the victim and assume she got it from her killer. What’s the first thing that pops out of their mouths? You got it, the killer must be a hunter!
A short while back, I posted about the company I blog for limiting my blogroll to fifteen links. I had been meaning to add to a special category specifically for links, but I never did, for which I had been feeling guilty for. In the long run, it may have been for the best though, because I’ve now discovered how to add a page devoted to links and it won’t be broken down into individual posts. This solution still doesn’t provide all the links on the sidebar the way I would like for them to be, but it is a much better fix than my previous attempt.
Benefits of sustainable hunting aren’t anything new to those who are aware of the practice. Most people who are a part of the hunting world are very familiar with them. From controlling population numbers to keep them in line with the carrying capacity of the habitat to helping prevent diseases. Once only the domain of wildlife agencies and outfitters, even everyday hunters are educating themselves and are managing their own wildlife using these proven methods.
At the crux of the controversy over hunting being classified as an ecotourism activity is sustainable hunting. Sustainable hunting, for those who don’t know, is the practice of only hunting the amount of a species that will not adversely affect the species’ chance of continued survival. The concept is actually at the very core of most wildlife management programs already, but the actual ideas behind it can actually be found in the hunting practices of most native cultures around the globe.
I bet when you hear the word, ecotourism, hunting isn’t the first thing to spring to mind, is it? Most likely, it doesn’t even enter into your mind. Some people, though, want to change that, by making a push to label sustainable hunting trips as a form of ecotourism.
The closest I’ve come to shooting a weapon is at Bass Pro Shop’s ‘for fun’ range. I wasn’t great at it, but I’m sure I was better than this guy.
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