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#64 ·
I never put any stickers on my truck ever..they're all lame..."I'd rather be basket weaving", "my other ride is ...". Pro staff stickers are the lamest of the lame IMO. My interpretation is that you are either a relatively inexperienced hunter who has deluded himself into thinking he knows much more than most or an experienced hunter with a braggart character flaw". That's just my opinion so if it floats your boat, who cares what others think, it's harmless, you have every right to go ahead & stick away to your hearts content....I would even consider "This vehicle brakes for ceviche" if that bumper sticker existed but it wouldn't end up on my bumper....if you have a ball sack hanging, I still haven't figured out exactly what kind & how many douche traits are in play because I have no idea what the message being conveyed is...some vague macho statement but what..maybe it's "I have testicular cancer"??....
 
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powerstroke73L said:
I'm going to guess that 99.99% of the people that see the stickers while you're driving around couldn't care less. Actual "antis" make up an extremely small segment of the population. Our biggest problem is people don't really care, ie: they don't hunt, they don't know anyone who hunts, etc... So they have no stake in it and aren't going to care if our rights get trampled on by a very vocal minority. One way to look at is when a soccer mom who doesn't know/care/think about hunting pulls up behind a guy like Shortfuse with hunting stickers and the "F-Bomb" plastered all over his truck, in her mind, hunters/gun owners are foul mouthed, tough guy a--holes. Every person who doesn't care is one interaction away from becoming an anti or, at the very least, empathetic to our side.

I am working toward a Masters degree in order to advance my career, and no surprise, most graduate students skew pretty liberal. However, I've done a lot of my presentations and papers on wildlife management, etc...and they now respect what I do. One woman in the class is actually pretty much an anti and doesn't like seeing animals killed period, but after she learned a little about how wildlife management works, and that there is a lot of science, ethics, and research that goes into hunting she was very surprised. None of them are going to pick up a shotgun or a bow and head out into the field anytime soon, but the next time they are presented with the idea that hunters are a bunch of dumb ******** running around in the woods shooting everything they see, they'll at least have something to compare it to (me).
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Bravo man. You're helping us all by doing that. I got my hunting license in PA. During hunter ed class, they taught us that in PA, 10% of people hunted / 10% of people were anti-hunting / and the other 80% didn't care. They did a whole section on how it was important to represent the sport well to the 80% because they will really end out determining if our rights get taken away.
 
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BenedictGomez said:
It's seriously that high? I find that hard to believe given most women dont hunt. In New Jersey, for instance, less than 1% of people hunt. Sad, but true.
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It might have been 5, 5 and 90. I know they say there are 1 million PA hunters...is PA pop 10mil or 20mil?

Yea: Looks like # of hunters ranges from 750k to 1m. Population is about 13m now. So, you're talking about 5-7%. It might have been 10 when I took the class.

The interesting thing is that around Philly, it's probably much more like NJ (1%) and a big slug of population is there...so it's REALLY popular in the rest of the state.
 
#71 ·
solo888 said:
Bravo man. You're helping us all by doing that. I got my hunting license in PA. During hunter ed class, they taught us that in PA, 10% of people hunted / 10% of people were anti-hunting / and the other 80% didn't care. They did a whole section on how it was important to represent the sport well to the 80% because they will really end out determining if our rights get taken away.
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The thing that really shocked me was how little people who have no exposure to hunting (never had any family members who hunted, etc...) knew so little about it. They basically just assume that deer hunting is something only people down South/out West do and that you just pick up a gun whenever you feel like it and go tromping around in the woods looking for something to shoot, and that once you do, you cut its head off, and mount it on your wall. When you inform people who know literally nothing about hunting that there are entire government agencies that regulate it, pages and pages of regulations governing it, set seasons, bag limits, and that you're actually eating what you're harvesting, they are usually pretty surprised. There are people who live in suburban/urban parts of New Jersey who have no idea that every fall hunters go into the woods in the same state that they live in and harvest deer, small game, etc...
 
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powerstroke73L said:
The thing that really shocked me was how little people who have no exposure to hunting (never had any family members who hunted, etc...) knew so little about it. They basically just assume that deer hunting is something only people down South/out West do and that you just pick up a gun whenever you feel like it and go tromping around in the woods looking for something to shoot, and that once you do, you cut its head off, and mount it on your wall. When you inform people who know literally nothing about hunting that there are entire government agencies that regulate it, pages and pages of regulations governing it, set seasons, bag limits, and that you're actually eating what you're harvesting, they are usually pretty surprised. There are people who live in suburban/urban parts of New Jersey who have no idea that every fall hunters go into the woods in the same state that they live in and harvest deer, small game, etc...
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To be honest, I didn't expect the hunting to be as prominent here when I found out I was to be stationed in NJ. I just assumed (like the rest of the country) hair gel, bad accents, and italians. But after doing some looking around.. it's not so bad as far as hunting goes, but it does present it's unique challenges. A good example would be population density vs. open (state) land, hunting with a rifle, season length and tag limits etc...
 
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