Post by MKMGOBL on Jun 11, 2013 18:46:20 GMT -5
In this months Hawkeye is great piece on something I often keep in the light and try to pass on to everyone I come in contact with. Whether it’s at the local sports shop, taxidermist shop, outdoor event where the hunting language is being spoken or at turkey seminar I’m giving. Seeing the hunting ethics vanishing from hunter education is becoming a serious issue. Just this year there was a case of hunters getting peppered in the turkey season.
As I’ve said before, there are several narrow minded people that think looking the other way and keeping quiet is the best solution to the growing problem. Hell they’ll even try and tell you that and I quote “location, location, location” is the key to avoid those kinds of people. When I try to ask the moron that I just quote, what about education instead of location? I have yet to hear back. I guess hiding or being a coward must have been the main lesson in his upbringing.
Then I’ve been told that a confrontation isn’t worth it. When is it worth it to confront people that don’t know better? Should one wait until their kid(s) their out hunting with is peppered with turkey shot or laying on the ground injured? It really make you wonder the mind set any idiot that tries to tell you that telling someone the right way to do something isn’t worth it.
I had a situation last year with my son where two guys went around the lower side of where we were hunting and fired off their guns spooking the birds we set up on before it was even light out. They wanted to hunt there but were a little too late on getting in so I guess they thought if they weren’t going to hunt the birds, neither was my son.
A few days later I saw the one guy and basically told him, if he or his buddy ever pulled that crap again…they both would have a physical issue with me. Do I think every person should handle it this way? Not at all but if these guys are low enough that they are going to mess up a 7yr old hunt, then me being nice wasn’t going to make a difference. So I handled it the way I did and it worked!
What I’m getting at is that the Hawkeye can see that this issue is real and not some made up issue that some wannabe Robert Frost of the outdoors thinks only happens to me because I don’t hunt up on of some family mountain top.
Speak up! Never be a coward, hide or look the other way. Educating or telling people the right way is always better than ignoring the problem.
Theodore Roosevelt ”In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."[/color]
As I’ve said before, there are several narrow minded people that think looking the other way and keeping quiet is the best solution to the growing problem. Hell they’ll even try and tell you that and I quote “location, location, location” is the key to avoid those kinds of people. When I try to ask the moron that I just quote, what about education instead of location? I have yet to hear back. I guess hiding or being a coward must have been the main lesson in his upbringing.
Then I’ve been told that a confrontation isn’t worth it. When is it worth it to confront people that don’t know better? Should one wait until their kid(s) their out hunting with is peppered with turkey shot or laying on the ground injured? It really make you wonder the mind set any idiot that tries to tell you that telling someone the right way to do something isn’t worth it.
I had a situation last year with my son where two guys went around the lower side of where we were hunting and fired off their guns spooking the birds we set up on before it was even light out. They wanted to hunt there but were a little too late on getting in so I guess they thought if they weren’t going to hunt the birds, neither was my son.
A few days later I saw the one guy and basically told him, if he or his buddy ever pulled that crap again…they both would have a physical issue with me. Do I think every person should handle it this way? Not at all but if these guys are low enough that they are going to mess up a 7yr old hunt, then me being nice wasn’t going to make a difference. So I handled it the way I did and it worked!
What I’m getting at is that the Hawkeye can see that this issue is real and not some made up issue that some wannabe Robert Frost of the outdoors thinks only happens to me because I don’t hunt up on of some family mountain top.
Speak up! Never be a coward, hide or look the other way. Educating or telling people the right way is always better than ignoring the problem.
Theodore Roosevelt ”In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."[/color]
