Between writing for two hunting blogs, volunteering with QDMA, living in the sportsman’s paradise of the lowcountry and working for a hunting lodge, I get to meet some great outdoorsmen and women. And that is one of the things that really makes my jobs and life so wonderful.

However I also occasionally run into some real morons who claim to be hunters, and they remind me why we have to work so hard to keep our sport/heritage safe from groups like PETA and the HSUS… Because while we are fighting between ourselves, it allows them to go unchecked and progressively whittle away our hunting rights.

One of these camo-clad idiots left a comment yesterday on a post that I did a while back on a neighborhood in GA that was being overrun with wild hogs. I wrote the story because I thought that it was a great example of how feral pigs are spreading into our suburban areas. I also thought that I was being funny by encouraging hunters to go and help them out… Obviously the neighborhood is private property that would probably be hard to get permission to gain access to hunt, so I pretty much assumed that everyone would see the intended humor in the post.

However not only did one moron not see the humor, he actually wanted to warn me and others not to try and hunt there. It seems that the G-town hog slayers think that they have the sole right to hunt those hogs, and they don’t want any outsiders infringing on them…

I am truly torn, and that is why I thought that I would write about it here. Part of me wants to send a nice, carefully thought out email back reminding the writer of my humorous intentions as well as how he shouldn’t take that kind of attitude/approach with fellow hunters that help protect/promote the sport that he claims to love. I would also like to point out that it is the “locals only” mind set that often keeps others from taking up our great sport as well as discourages those that are trying to find a place to hunt so that they stay with it -   I will call this the “killing them with kindness” approach.

On the other hand, I just want to write the following:  Dear Moron, Glad to see that you are killing your own food since it is obvious by your email that you can hardly read and write, so that must make getting a job to buy groceries very tough. I also recommend that you keep your wife and sister out of the yard, and then maybe the local paper would quit writing about wild hogs invading your slum. And while I was just being funny about encouraging hunters to hit your woods, I now plan on hunting there everyday that I can. I also look forward to running into you there so that you can try to “remove” my 225 lb ass from your woods.

Anyone have a preference or recommendation on which email I send?

Jeff

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