Nasty people

[Marc St Louis]

My wife and I were picking up some groceries today and we started talking with one of the employees there, a middle age woman.  The subject matter worked around to hunting, I was wearing a camo coat, and it turns out the woman is a bow hunter, wheel bow and crossbow.  She is proud to be a hunter and advertises it on her truck, maybe that is a mistake.  She was telling us that she came out to her truck one day and someone had written " cold hearted bi**h" on it, she was a bit dismayed at that.  Being somewhat older than her I have come across that mentality before but for her it was something new and it hurt.  I don't think this happened too long ago as it was still raw and there was some anger there, probably lucky she didn't catch these people in the act.

[sleek]

Perhaps there should be a season on those idiots. Then they could see exactly what kind of a cold hearted bit_h she can be. Honestly, if they realy truely believed that, then i dont see how its smart for them to make her angry.  Obviously they dont think what they wrote is true, seek out someone less than they are, and attack. Ironically, doing the same they accuse her of being so cold about. Wich in turns makes them cold hearted morons.

If it were me, it paint what they wrote permanently on my truck right where they did. And get a dash cam.

[JW_Halverson]

As people move further and further from their food, we that hunt and fish risk becoming demonized.  A false morality allows people to talk with their mouths full of food about how we need to preserve the animals, the trees, the planet when the reason we have so little wildlands left is because we converted so much to agriculture.

[Badger]

  Maybe she should just buy her meat at the store like normal people so no animals are harmed!

[bubby]

Maybe she needs a steady diet of soylent green

[osage outlaw]

My community is very hunter friendly.  I've never had any negative comments or actions towards me.  Messing with a hunters vehicle is a good way to get hurt.  Obviously the owner of that truck has weapons and knows how to use them. 

[PEARL DRUMS]

  Maybe she should just buy her meat at the store like normal people so no animals are harmed!

Isnt that the thought process Steve! Go to just one beef or pork SLAUGHTER house and that mentality would change quick. Aint nuttin' nice going on there.

[neuse]

  Maybe she should just buy her meat at the store like normal people so no animals are harmed!

Yep. I killed two does this weekend and gave thanks to God and to each doe for allowing me to have them.
That don't happen in a slaughter house.

[Lumberman]

That's bizarre.. Hard to imagine someone doing that to another that they don't know simply for being a hunter. A bit misplaced, hopefully just a juvenile as the actions certainly were. I have been friends with some fairly serious non-hunter vegan types ; a lot of times it is misinformation about what hunters do. The vegan girl knew I had three months of bow season but was amazed to find out that by December I only had one deer in the freezer(plenty of misses that year I remember). Good interface with a hunter who is respectful of the individual's heart and the animal pursued can make the difference in how that person views hunting and hunters the rest of their life. Cold hearted B came from someone as sleek pointed out, must be rather cold him or herself.

[Knoll]

Yeah, imo, ignorance is generally the culprit when it comes to us being unkind with each other.

[Marc St Louis]

What these idiots don't realize is that the food they eat is grown on land that was once wild habitat

[Wolf Watcher]

Anyone who thinks it is OK to damage some one's property needs to be held responsible.  The sad truth is a surprising number of hunters put all the rest of us in a bad light for non hunters.  Kind of like the people that use guns to kill people they don't even know makes a lot of people want to take our guns away!  Where I live hunters come from all over the country to hunt big game.  Not all of them have respect for the animals, the game laws, and other peoples land.  An example to make a point is when my wife and I were coming home from Cody when we met a pickup from Ill.  They had a trailer with a couple of ATVs tied on.  They had a fair sized bull elk horns and head tied on the top of their truck tongue hanging out and animal parts hanging out of the truck bed.  I wonder if they kept that elk head on display all the way home?  I can tell you from actually watching the road hunters that I have little respect for the new age gun hunters.  Rifles that will shoot a 1000 yards doesn't make the new untrained owner capable of making those long shots and they make no effort to make sure they did not wound an animal.  This is a fun time of the year here with the seasons closed the animals sheding their horns.  I hope my rant is OK with the mods and if not please delete it.  Joe   

[JacksonCash]

Wolf, I think you've hit the nail on the head. I enjoyed hunting when I was younger, but I've since not been very active in it. Having a vegetarian wife is part of that, but also just kind of fell out of enjoying it. A lot of people in the area I grew up in were too much of the big buck macho mold for me to really enjoy it. Working in sporting goods retail for a while further drove the point home for me, with all the feed designed to bulk up your deer. To me it takes away from the primal nature of the act. I can totally see where people might be turned away from supporting hunting because of this sort of thing, but it doesn't justify being nasty to others.

[Aaron H]

Hate is easy.
Love takes courage.

[DC]

You don't even have to love them. Tolerate them, ignore them, just don't do anything stupid.