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Round and round
Posted by martentrapper on Feb 09 2006
Yes we have gone round and round. Why is that? Whose idea of hunting, whose idea of fair, whose idea of ethics, is the "right" one? Are 16 power rifle scopes, "fair"? Is a weapon that will kill at 400 yds "ethical"?Is it ethical for a human to use his brain to stalk and kill other species?
When has hunting ever been what it "was"?
Apparently, learning to fly an airplane is "easy", yet the majority of us have not done so. Apparently it is easy to safely navigate an aircraft over hundreds of miles, find a certain species of animal, safely land the plane, and then kill that species. What I don't understand is if it is so easy, why do so few of us actually do it? Is it "easy" to earn the money to own, operate, and maintain an aircraft?
What I find funny is the number of people, and it isn't only on this forum, who have never flown, operated, or maintained an aircraft, even a little cheap one, and think it is "easy". Kinda like watching a guy pull into town on his dogteam with 100 marten in the sled and thinking, catching marten must be "easy". Not realizing the years of trail cutting, the months of work, the effort of keeping the team healthy, the time involved in training, the nights of skinning, and the long mush to town, maybe without good trail, to get your fur to market. (Been there, done that, Mark).
Mark, Mike, any of the rest of you..........buy an airplane. Learn to fly it safely. Learn to land it off airport. Suffer the cost of maintaining it in accordance with the regs. Operate it 300 miles from your base, actually find some animals to kill( I won't say hunt) land the plane and actually get out and successfully "kill" even one of those animals. If after all that, you STILL think it is "easy",maybe those of us who do operate aircraft will respect your opinon.
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