Guys, you do a disservice here to John. Your perception is off. Totally off - literally.
John has gone out of his way to pussyfoot around on eggshells in a deliberate attempt (successfully so) to be impartial and non-inflammatory in his wording and presentation of this topic. Do you speak for the rest of the HunTing fraternity here? because I find those posts rude and disrespectful to someone who has shown absolutely no ulterior motive (and this despite the plethora of material and opportunity you have given him).
One of the arguments levelled against 'HunTers' is a lack of empathy, and you have demonstrated this in spades here - a true own goal.
John's right in that this thread in-itself is a fascinating study :cat: --- the HunTing 'pack' seemingly emboldened by the lack of volume of opposing argument (don't rejoice your victory just yet - I'm sure most people just could not be bothered wasting their breath with such a closed-minded sooky mob, thinly supported by such logically fragile arguments), think nothing of resorting to seeming bullying - and this with the recruitment of no less than God to their side over Easter! ............ You just couldn't write this sort of stuff! 3
Honestly, I'm sure you guys in the US have no ideer how you are viewed by the rest of the world. I'll see your 2-3,000 years of archaic historical stories and God bothering and raise you another 37,000 years of Dreamtime ........ :eek!: o
Most birders here on BirdForum find the idea of killing abhorent. It doesn't matter what justifications, comparisons with other less than ideal situations, or ethical spin you try and put on it - it is just Murder, and for people to get their jollies out of that is deeply disturbing.
If you macho, hairy-chested HunTers were going head to head with Grizzlies, Lions, Bison, and Rutting Moose armed with nothing more than sharpened sticks and rocks in a fair fight then I don't think there'd be such an outcry ..... I note that none of you have taken up the invitation to start a discussion on HunTing in the appropriate forum of "Ruffled Feathers" ....... :smoke:
I myself am not a complete stranger to stalking, and even have the 'heads' of two kangaroos hanging on my wall ..... it took me 1&1/2 hrs to close in the 150 metres in order to get several clean 'shots' away. It then took me over an hour to remove myself completely unseen with my 'trophy' photographs safely tucked away in my camera -- the two roo's never even knew I was there and happily continued to carry on their grass chewing and lazing around in the shade, day |:d| :t:
I even wonder if any of the HunTing types even read the article John posted with any conviction --- what? No actual on-topic mention of the "Binocular Tax" suggested??! :h?: now I would have thought
that would have caused a real uproar!
Chosun :gh: