NOT ONE THIN DIME!

Hunting is the ONLY governmental program that has:

  1. Paid it's own way since it's inception, AND
  2. Policed itself with it's own funds, AND
  3. Educated itself with it's own funds, AND
  4. Corrected and replenished itself with it's own funds, AND
  5. Expanded with it's own funds

I have yet to meet an anti hunter who could fund OR, police OR, educate OR , expand OR, pay for any program that they have suggested with volunteer money. Until they can successfully do this, the general public would have to be an absolute fool to believe that they have any real world solutions to today's problems. 

 

It would do us all well as hunters to let the general public know of these taxable problems within the anti hunter's agenda and how their "solutions" will cost the non-hunter millions of dollars in taxes. The non-hunting public would have to assume the unproven management tactics of all wildlife if they have their way.

 

PROOF?

Chenequa, Wisconsin (a Milwaukee suburb) paid military snipers $31,000 to kill 200 surplus deer within the community. The town has a no hunting ordinance, and the population rose in 1996 to over 75 deer per square mile. 

 

The snipers were paid $150 an hour to hunt, plus $25 per deer killed, plus $35 per animal in fees to have the meat processed. Short of opening up a hunting season, this method WAS MORE COST EFFECTIVE than relocation, birth control or trapping.

 

NOW LET'S SEE HOW PETA HANDLED A SIMILAR SITUATION?

Periodically Florida has a problem in the everglades when water levels rise and browse becomes submerged. This can lead to the deer heard starving itself in no time at all. The Florida Game and Fish had one such episode during the mid-1980's that drew national media attention. The State of Florida decided to sell a special temporary hunting permit for the area to allow hunters to go in and lower the size of the herd and relieve the pressure of overgrazing. The animals involved were now becoming critically malnourished as the special season began,

Then entered the Animal Rights Activist group "PETA" on their silver chariot, Actually is was in a group of air boats. A media feeding frenzy ensued as Hunters and Animal Rights Activists met head-on, face to face, nose to nose on local boat docks.

In hopes of dissolving a potentially dangerous situation the State of Florida:

  • sectioned off a portion of the affected geographic area for the hunters
  • sectioned off a portion of the affected geographic area for PETA to operate in
  • sold their hunting permits.

When the "Special Harvest" period was over, Florida had brought in over $50,000 in license fees and lowered the herd to a survivable level in the hunting zone. PETA spent over $100,000 in the rescue of 11 deer, 7 of which died before they could be nursed to health and released.

 

And PETA thinks it knows what it's doing? And speaking of Florida, what about this Walt Disney guy?

My Hunting Stance