Boone and Crockett Club Condems Canned Shooting

Part Two of this column will appear in the Winter 2010 issue of Fair Chase. It continues to examine in-depth the deceit and hypocrisy of HSUS, PETA and other radical and militant animal rights organizations, and their attacks on hunting and fishing, zoos and circuses, factory farming, medical and biological research, dog breeders, corporate retailers and manufactures, and their insidious youth education programs promoting veganism, animal rights, animal liberation, and a petless, meatless society. The frightening criminal underbelly of the animal rightists eco-terrorism and veganarchism campaigns are moreover explored, as is the legal system’s involvement both in the United States and abroad. The end game and utopian world of animal rightists is a daunting and serious societal threat both to sportsmen and the very way we live and function.

‘No’ on Measure 2

Measure 2, the so-called high-fence hunting ban, is not about hunting. Nor is it about property rights. Nor is it an invitation for the anti-hunting crowd to get a foothold in North Dakota. Nor is there evidence it’s a threat to traditional hunting in the state.

Measure 2 has the potential to be a legal nightmare. Despite claims the language is iron-clad, the measure is ambiguous enough to have lawyers salivating over the prospect of going to court should the measure pass. That potential should send proponents of the measure back to the drawing board.

High-fence, or canned, “hunting” is not hunting in the tradition North Dakotans cherish. Shooting animals raised on game farms in fenced enclosures – no matter how large the enclosure – is akin to plinking fish in a shallow stock pond. It’s an insult to North Dakota’s hunting tradition. “Hunters” who brag about a trophy elk or deer bagged inside the fence are worthy of scorn. They are shooters, not hunters.

That being said, Measure 2 is a flawed instrument. If North Dakotans want to control or limit high-fence operations, Measure 2 is not the way to go. Vote “no.”

Forum editorials represent the opinion of Forum management and the newspaper’s Editorial Board.

Ladd Said:
You might disagree with Dick Monson on this measure and that is everyones right to do.   But Dick isn't some outsider as you suggest.   He grew up on a farm by Valley City and rasied his own family on that farm.  He is a Marine Corps Vietnam Vet, and has been hunting his whole life.    I met him about 6 years ago while working on some hunting legislation.   Dick isn't like many hunters in ND, he actually gets involved in issues he cares about.    Be has opposed to measure 2 as you want, but personally attacking Dick Monson as some sort of un-North Dakotan makes you a fool....

hopeandchangethis Said:
Who cares if peta wants it stopped. It is not hunting. They will never be able to stop real hunting because all the "real hunters" will speak there mind. The fencies are such a small group they have no chance!

When someone sends you money when you're working on some cause I don't think many people do background checks on the person who sent it.    I donated to some campaigns this year and my check was cashed without question.     I am, however,  plotting the take over the free world,  so that's now on the people that cashed my check.......It wouldn't  matter to you if Dick posted this or anything else, so why should he waste his time? 

Ladd Said:

When someone sends you money when you're working on some cause I don't think many people do background checks on the person who sent it.    I donated to some campaigns this year and my check was cashed without question.     I am, however,  plotting the take over the free world,  so that's now on the people that cashed my check.......It wouldn't  matter to you if Dick posted this or anything else, so why should he waste his time? 

Ladd Said:

When someone sends you money when you're working on some cause I don't think many people do background checks on the person who sent it.    I donated to some campaigns this year and my check was cashed without question.     I am, however,  plotting the take over the free world,  so that's now on the people that cashed my check.......It wouldn't  matter to you if Dick posted this or anything else, so why should he waste his time? 

It is not only me he was asked on Nodak . Why not come out and clear the air he made the statemans. Or thats right if you are gulity of something doesn't your attorney tell you not to say anything.    He made the big bold statemet no money from anti-hunting groups,It means nothing to me if he hidding but I am sure there there are alot of others who live in the same state as Dick does would like to see him clear the air

Rustys said it best

 

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