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From: averett@cs.unc.edu (Shava Averett)
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Poaching (was: Re: Hunting "Accidents")
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.093452.19633@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 14:34:52 GMT
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In article <1991May31.094933.27675@doug.cae.wisc.edu> HUDSON%EIVAX%UALR.BitNet@vms3.macc.wisc.edu writes:
>While I am at it, how about the media (and just about everyone else) calling
>people that shoot up property or hunt illegally "hunters"?  I always thought
>that people who shoot up other property were called "VANDALS" and that illegal
>"hunters" were called "POACHERS".  I think both can be called "CRIMINALS".

While we're on the subject, if I hear one more person who characterizes
hunters according to "those bad men who killed Bambi's mother," I swear I'll 
...well...do something unladylike in their general direction.

Has anyone else in the *world* noticed (and informed these people) that the
hunters in Bambi were poaching?  That's what *I* call hunting does in the
spring.  And their behavior is really pretty irresponsible and reprehensible.
They start a forest fire on one visit.  Maybe the NRA or someone should 
sponsor a tour of the movie with a hunter education film at the beginning,
to tell little kids that hunters aren't all like this?  I suppose that 
wouldn't work, really, but you get the idea.

Just letting off a little steam...

Shava Nerad Averett
shava@rad.unc.edu
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