The Rise of Urban Hunters

I have to admit to being a bit divided on this article. While I wholeheartedly encourage more young hunters from urban centres or wherever. More gun owners and more hunters SHOULD be good for us. But there is this really heavy holier-than-thou vibe in that article which disturbs me.

“I never want to be in a position of having to defend a David Booth, because that’s not what I’m about,” he said. “What he does is a completely different thing.”

Like his killing an animal is somehow more humane or ethical than what Booth, or any hunter that keeps trophies and not just shooting small does do? Some how in his hunter training course he must have missed that part about it being illegal to leave meat to spoil. That is called poaching.

Heck the hunting community already has pretty large rifts, and this is not going to bring us closer together is it? And after all the gun grabbing talk in the last few months, I'm not sure a lot of these health-food-hunters aren't going to support the "well I'm a hunter and I don't think we need black guns or hand guns" BS.

Hmmm Mixed feelings.
 
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Organic meat hunting might just turn out to be the gateway drug that leads these people to hardcore stuff like owning black, green or red rifles and .50 desert eagles (or SIGs!!).......... Just sayin' ;)
 
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Good article. Hunt camps a few years back were filled with 40+year olds, now your seeing younger. Us old guys need to be replaced or we'll keep losing ground in the battle of public opinion. It also means more people owning firearms, which will normalize firearm ownership again, hopefully turning years of social engineering around.​
 
jaydog said:
Organic meat hunting might just turn out to be the gateway drug that leads these people to hardcore stuff like owning black, green or red rifles and .50 desert eagles (or SIGs!!).......... Just sayin' ;)
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I certainly hope it does! I really do want you to be right, and hope I am being overly pessimistic. Our hobby really does need new blood, and admittedly the old guard doesn't always do good things for the gun community either. I'm sure a lot of great people will get into hunting and shooting but as for the article itself; the underlying vibe just causes me to wince.

Cheers
 
Taking the optimistic view, I should be looking at this a generation removed from guns and hunting has made the first step to open the doors to understand us and embrace our way of life. We need to take advantage of this and provide positive mentorship and education and bring them into the fold and not exclude them. Create more of us, and not create an us vs. them atmosphere.

there how is that? :)
 
Gary D said:
Taking the optimistic view, I should be looking at this a generation removed from guns and hunting has made the first step to open the doors to understand us and embrace our way of life. We need to take advantage of this and provide positive mentorship and education and bring them into the fold and not exclude them. Create more of us, and not create an us vs. them atmosphere.

there how is that? :)
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Actually this brings up a social phenom. We should be teaching our kids and grandkids how to hunt and shoot, but we don't have this opportunity because we aren't getting married and having kids to pass this tradition on like we used to. With that said, everybody go make a future hunter or two tonight with the Mrs. ;)
 
Gary D said:
I certainly hope it does! I really do want you to be right, and hope I am being overly pessimistic. Our hobby really does need new blood, and admittedly the old guard doesn't always do good things for the gun community either. I'm sure a lot of great people will get into hunting and shooting but as for the article itself; the underlying vibe just causes me to wince.

Cheers
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Me too, but you have to start somewhere. Baby steps, I tell myself.

Gary D said:
Taking the optimistic view, I should be looking at this a generation removed from guns and hunting has made the first step to open the doors to understand us and embrace our way of life. We need to take advantage of this and provide positive mentorship and education and bring them into the fold and not exclude them. Create more of us, and not create an us vs. them atmosphere.

there how is that? :)
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I think you have nailed it! When it comes to firearms in my life I spend time on three things: being better at 'guns', being better at hunting and being better at recruiting.


mosinmaster said:
Actually this brings up a social phenom. We should be teaching our kids and grandkids how to hunt and shoot, but we don't have this opportunity because we aren't getting married and having kids to pass this tradition on like we used to. With that said, everybody go make a future hunter or two tonight with the Mrs. ;)
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My first little hunter will be born in August, at the start of NA big game season. A great birth month for the rest of his/her life.
 
This is a great article for this part of the country, especially having front page. Dylan Eyers and Eat Wild has created lots of positive press in the past on hunting here in the Vancouver area. He has found a nich market that is helping all of us to be more part of the "norm". The way Eat Wild does its thing helps bring in these new hunters. You can't just go down town and ask who wants to go to the range? It also gives these folks new to the sport a well grounded base to justify to their anti hunting friends why they have become hunters. Part of being in this sport is being able to talk to others (antis) about what we do. Many of us started as hunters then moved on to the shooting sports. I am sure this will be a trend with these hunters also. I would never get this positive press coverage for my week long deer hunting trip to the interior of BC every fall.
The media was trying to drag the discussion into the controversy of trophy hunting. Dylan does not trophy hunt so he was not going to spend his time in the news arguing about it. Trophy hunters can always do their own news release and talk to the media about their sport.
Here is their video. My good friend Larri is the first to speak. He is an excellent outdoors man and knowledgeable in science of the outdoors. He hunted for sheep in the early 70s and has harvested a deer every year since he was 12. He was my high school teacher. It was because of him I got to bring my 30-06 to school and keep it in my locker:cool:. We were taking off after school on Friday for the Outdoor Club hunting trip:rockOn:.
Eat Wild http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JErDIzPf1y0&feature=plcp
 
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the best thing about this is we have more hunters m which means more people owning and buying firearms .

it also makes hunting and firearms more legitimate to anyone on the fence .

also just because there may be more hunters out there doesn't mean they are all filling their tags .

there are lots of area's around here where people never get out of their trucks , or off their quads .... and many times all a person has to do is walk a hundred yards or so and you find all sorts of animal sign avoiding the highway of hunters driving by .
 
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Congrats! Stock up on .22lr and get a youth rifle ;)
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Congrats Jaydog. Yup one of the best part of having a newborn is buying all the toys; even if they are waaaaaaay to young still to enjoy them. Not making any more little hunters here, I don't think I could manage. I guess I'm just out there shooting for trophies now :D
 
Always good that city folks have a connection to where their meat comes from which is dead animal. More appreciating hunting is a good thing.
 
Kudos to Dylan Eyers. Hunting has finally reversed a dangerous slide into obscurity and unacceptability. More tags and hunters means more money for conservation and research.
A black eye for the bunny huggers as well. Goes to show that leading by example, and using a positive, proactive approach to expanding hunting anywhere is more productive than raising the drawbridge and hiding.
 
Front page of the Vancouver Sun on a Friday no less.
It is good for the business of selling guns, ammo clothing and gear and licenses as well.
There will be detractors of course, from both side, but thats typical of the nimby mentality that abounds.
Again, finally after many years of negative attitude by that rag, they try and do something right and Thank You
to those that where brave enough to have their pictures posted in the paper.
Tight Groups,
Rob
 
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