ACCESS TO RESPONSIBLE HUNTING

HUNTING ETHICS; SAVE OUR SPORT

RESPONSIBLE HUNTING AND SHOOTING ARE CRITICAL ELEMENTS TO THE FUTURE OF OUR SPORT.

By Del Albright

Hunting is like off-roading or four-wheeling sports, we must do it right if we want to continue to do it in the future.  Irresponsible behavior or lack of ethics will get us shut down by the people who do not like what we do anyway.  They do not try to hide their mission of shutting us out.

Here are some simple tips to keep our hunting/shooting sports alive.

FIRST: Be ethical; make clean kills and avoid stupid (long, or running) shots that you know you cannot make; and do not ruin someone else's hunt.

For more on Recreation Ethics visit BlueRibbon Coalition/Sharetrails.Org

SECOND: Be courteous of other hunters and other land users; think about where you park and how you drive/walk into the area where others are hunting.

THIRD: Be informed by reading about ethics and rules from places like the NRA or TreadLightly! etc.

Visit TreadLightly! for more ideas and educational posters.

FOURTH:  Be clean; always pick up your trash and pack it out, including shells and target trash.  Leave your campsite better than you found it.

FIFTH: Be safe; follow the gun rules; never point a weapon at anyone (even if you think it's unloaded); and properly store your weapon in your vehicle -- safely and legally.

Set the example for others; pass on the tradition, the right way!

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THERE'S NO ROOM FOR (OFF-ROAD) COWBOYS ANYMORE

The Days of Running Free and Riding Off Into the Sunset Are Only For the Movies!

But Freedoms Still Exist and We Need to Keep Them.

By Del Albright

This story is about off-pavement motorized recreation and how the "cowboy" claim to fame of riding free is just not real anymore.  Not for us as people who put a motor rather than an horse under us.

Now please don't get me wrong, there is a ton of "freedom" built into what we do; but in today's world we cannot behave like riding and roping cowboys on public land and expect to have a "horse" under us much longer.  By that I simply mean we must follow the rules, obey the laws, be good stewards, and set the example for the younger folks behind us.

I also pray (literally) that we will always have real cowboys on ranches, doing real horse riding, roping and cattle driving.  I also fight for and work hard to help make sure cattle grazing on public lands continues to be a viable lifestyle.  But here I speak of motorized recreation and how the "cowboy" in us must be corralled.

While it would be hard for me to argue the point that we might have too much big government in some circumstances, there are just some rules we need to follow when you are on the throttle or gas pedal.  And if we follow them, and be part of developing them by getting involved, then we can keep our motors running and our "horses" fed.

It still boils down to all of us doing our part; joining organizations that make sense to us; being good stewards of the lands (and waters) we enjoy; obeying the rules; and setting the example for others who also want to enjoy our great backcountry by motor.

NOTE: for a good example of a recreation code of ethics, see what BlueRibbon Coalition/Sharetrails has to offer: http://archive.sharetrails.org/node/14768

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