Got this off of a other xbow site
PETA TARGETS BOWHUNTING WITH SENSELESS ATTACK
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PETA TARGETS BOWHUNTING WITH SENSELESS ATTACK
Well, PETA is at it again. For years, PETA has been working on eliminating the rights of those who harvest natural resources. Recently, a new attack began on the least developed facet of archery the crossbow.
PETA in this editorial is not the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It stands for PEOPLE EGOTISTICALLY TRASHING ARCHERY. Sadly, these PETA members come from the bowhunting community. However, make no mistake - they are anti-hunting. In the sense that a woman is either pregnant or she is not, so it goes with hunting. You are either pro-hunting or anti-hunting. You cant have it both ways. A pro-hunter supports ALL forms of hunting with ALL weapons!
Their plan is simple and right out of the other PETAs play book. Flood the arena with misstatements, ambiguous reporting and blatant untruths to whip up the ignorant and uninformed. Attack those who are drawn to the crossbow as a viable hunting option by classifying them as lazy, unethical, stupid, inferior slob-hunters. Attack and demonize the leadership of the industry with character assassination, wild emotional claims of gloom and doom and threats, while portraying themselves as the voice of the undivided multitude. Declare that the entire crossbow movement is the result of a carefully calculated plot hatched by evil, money-hungry crossbow manufacturers out to sacrifice our hunting heritage for a few million bucks.
Its an ugly picture designed to turn the stomachs of hunters and non-hunters alike, while turning the tide of one of the greatest growth spurts archery has experienced in recent years.
This evil PETA plot would probably succeed were it not for the intelligence and common sense of the hunting majority. Most of us are aware that in the past decade, we have lost 1.7 million hunters and that each year, the median age of the hunter inches higher. We know that radical animal rights groups are organizing, merging and combining their purses as they zero in on hunters, targeting them for extinction.
Most of us realize that we must recruit and retain as many hunters as we can if we are going to survive for much longer. Furthermore, it does not matter what these new hunters hunt with as long as we are all working together as brothers and sisters protecting each others back from those who would selfishly and hatefully destroy ANY hunting opportunity.
We are aware of the urgent need to thin herds as serious management problems increase across this land. We understand that the more hunters we have among our ranks, the easier it will be to reach our management goals.
Most hunters also know that to prevent our hunting heritage from dying of old age, it is necessary to recruit young people, women and those who come from metro backgrounds. To do that, we need to develop enticements that will attract that new blood and draw fresh hunters to our sport.
One of the best tools we have in our recruitment and survival arsenal is the crossbow! It keeps our older hunters in the woods long beyond the time they are unable to pull and steadily hold a vertical bow at full draw. It allows even a ten-year old to use a hunting tool that will be as effective and as accurate as their fathers high-powered compound. It permits women to use a hunting bow that is on par with any that their male counterpart can use. Best of all, it gets the entire family into the woods together for quality time, which is critical for our sport and its uncertain future. The new PETA obviously doesnt understand this or else they dont care.
When this new PETA draws down on the crossbow, while supporting a compound with the same ballistics, it is anti-hunting. When it turns against the leadership of its industry, leadership that has done so much to promote and preserve it, while creating new avenues of growth, then it is anti-hunting. When this new PETA elevates itself above the grassroots majority and through threats, closed meetings and irresponsible behavior attacks its fellows, it is definitely anti-hunting.
This PETAs behavior and its self-centered actions, in my humble opinion, are high treason to all who long to see our hunting heritage remain intact for future generations. Mark well those groups that make up this new PETA, and realize the direction they are trying to move hunting. For it is a direction that is selfishly intended to safeguard THEIR deer - in THEIR woods - during THEIR season. Shame on them!
