"OchocoKid
A semi load of dead wolves would make me grin from ear to ear. but I wish people would go at it like it was still illegal and lay low.
If you want to get wolf hunting stopped post pictures and brag about it. battles are being won, the war is far from over."
T, I agree with you about dead wolves. And to be honest, I do the same when I kill a deer, antelope or an elk. I don't display it, or let it show in the back of my truck, if possible, because I worry about the negative feelings it creates with non-hunters and others. A dead animal, of any kind, with eyes glazed over and sunken, with tongues hanging out is unnecessary and insensitive, in these politically correct times.
I see deceased horses, cows and sheep in the back of farm trucks, headed for our county landfill, all the time. The public doesn't seem to have any problems with those images. Of course this is a rural area, I suppose, if you hauled one down State Street in Salt Lake, you might get some blow back.
However.................I wonder, if keeping the reality of killing animals out of sight and removed from the eyes of the public is not playing into more misunderstanding intolerance of the hunting lifestyle, and the more we avoid the reality of what we are doing, the more unacceptable it looks. It may be assumed we are ashamed of our actions, to those that are critical of our lifestyle. If hunting is moral and honorable, as we believe it is, should we be keeping a trap over it, or should we be confronting the misguided hostility toward it and put it on the front page of the Sports Section of the local news paper, like we did back in the 50 and 60, before we started pandering to the anti-hunting, anti-meat eating movement. I wonder if the pandering has turned to empowerment.
Some times I fear we are doing ourselves more harm than good, by avoiding the confrontation.
I'd like to know what you think, beyond your initial comment.
DC