Summary
For wildlife, and for Western public-land hunters, things are bad all over -- thanks, in large part, to a president who took office with the votes of gun owners and hunters. This year, I haven't seen any "Sportsmen for Bush" bumper stickers. I have seen a few "Sportsmen Against Bush" bumper stickers.
Still, [George W. Bush]'s support among some sportsmen is very strong. These are the gun owners who, swayed by the propaganda of the National Rifle Association, are convinced that any Democrat in the White House will take away all our firearms. The NRA's extremely successful media campaign of the past two decades has whipped that wing of the sportsmen's vote into a frenzy. They will vote for a Democrat when hell freezes over.I have seen the place where I used to hunt for pronghorn. There's a pump jack there now. And there's a sign that warns me of possible poison gas. And there's not a pronghorn in sight.See the full content of this document
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Hunting: It's Not About the Gun
I killed my first deer on an October morning, two days after my 14th birthday. I was hunting on my grandmother's ranch in south-central Colorado, and I can still see that deer, ghostgray in the dawn, its form more like sm...
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