media coverage --
just an observation on the media bashing as liberal and therefore anti-hunting.
I'm a regular listener to NPR and fail to hear the liberal bias that conservatives seem to be better at hearing.
I've heard positive stories on hunting in general and women in hunting. I guess the "women" part is the Liberal bias showing.
Another gun bb had a post on a positive hunting article in Oprah's magazine. Of course, it was by a woman hunter, so it still must be labelled "liberal", I guess.
One thing we hunters need to check. The media is NOT liberal. There are liberals in the media and there are conservatives in the media. The greatest propaganda success in modern times is the fiction that The Media is run by a bunch of liberals. What a hoot.
A fact that we need to be aware of: numbers of hunters, nation-wide, is declining.
Want to do a good deed for our hunting culture: take a youngster hunting squirrels or rabbits; get involved in hunter safety classes through Boy Scouts or some such organization that teaches kids about the outdoors.
Women are a vast untapped resource. Take your wife, gf, daughter, niece, SIL to an indoor range and let her shoot your .22, your 38 spl at 7 or 10 yds. I've been amazed at the enthusiasm from my female friends that enjoyed a trip to a gun range.
I've been amazed at the stupidity of some male friends that thought it was funny to give the new gf a 12 ga shotgun and tell her to hold the butt away from her shoulder as that would "take up" the recoil better or the duffus at the indoor range that rented a 44mag and handed it to his gf w/ no instruction whatsoever. These women will not be back to try again and the people they tell their story to will be less likely to try themselves, no matter what they are told about the reality of 22's and 38 spl's.
Some of us are the enemy when it comes to the impression non-shooters or non-hunters have of us.
just an observation on the media bashing as liberal and therefore anti-hunting.
I'm a regular listener to NPR and fail to hear the liberal bias that conservatives seem to be better at hearing.
I've heard positive stories on hunting in general and women in hunting. I guess the "women" part is the Liberal bias showing.
Another gun bb had a post on a positive hunting article in Oprah's magazine. Of course, it was by a woman hunter, so it still must be labelled "liberal", I guess.
One thing we hunters need to check. The media is NOT liberal. There are liberals in the media and there are conservatives in the media. The greatest propaganda success in modern times is the fiction that The Media is run by a bunch of liberals. What a hoot.
A fact that we need to be aware of: numbers of hunters, nation-wide, is declining.
Want to do a good deed for our hunting culture: take a youngster hunting squirrels or rabbits; get involved in hunter safety classes through Boy Scouts or some such organization that teaches kids about the outdoors.
Women are a vast untapped resource. Take your wife, gf, daughter, niece, SIL to an indoor range and let her shoot your .22, your 38 spl at 7 or 10 yds. I've been amazed at the enthusiasm from my female friends that enjoyed a trip to a gun range.
I've been amazed at the stupidity of some male friends that thought it was funny to give the new gf a 12 ga shotgun and tell her to hold the butt away from her shoulder as that would "take up" the recoil better or the duffus at the indoor range that rented a 44mag and handed it to his gf w/ no instruction whatsoever. These women will not be back to try again and the people they tell their story to will be less likely to try themselves, no matter what they are told about the reality of 22's and 38 spl's.
Some of us are the enemy when it comes to the impression non-shooters or non-hunters have of us.
