Anti-Guners posing as Sportsmen!

[SilverRun]

Heads-up, huntersandshooters.com is claiming to be supporting hunter and gun rights, but was really founded by gun grabbers and humane society cronies. They are attempting to take money from us to use against us. Read more at http://www.gunlawnews.org/asha.html .

[.22guy]

They will try anything to get at us, won't they? Reminds me of John Kerry prancing around with a shotgun during the presidential campaign. What a fool.

[Apollyon67]

Dang they can't even be honest hipocrites.

The International Hunter Education Association (IHEA) is the international organization comprised of officials having responsibility for administering the various state and provincial hunter education programs in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

The mission of the IHEA is to provide leadership in developing safe, responsible, knowledgeable and involved hunters. The IHEA is recognized as the primary source of information on hunter education and hunting accident statistics. The IHEA provides a medium for exchange of views and experiences that enable hunter education administrators and others to adapt to meet the changing needs of hunters and hunter education. The IHEA is actively involved with other organizations having similar interests and goals to strengthen relationships, build credibility and work to assure that sport hunting has a sound future.

The IHEA is the only organization consolidating data on hunting accidents throughout North America. For the purpose of this report, the IHEA accident definitions are used. Individual states and provincial accident reporting regulations and definitions are different; therefore, the IHEA provides standardized hunting accident definitions and a standardized hunting accident report form.

For the purpose of this report, a hunting accident is defined as “Any event, which is attributed directly or indirectly to a firearm or bow, and causes the injury or death to any person or persons as a result of a person’s actions while hunting.” These accidents are itemized in Sections 2-5 of each State, Provincial and Region report and summarized in the graphs in this report. Activities such as target shooting, plinking, horseplay (while not hunting), or even cleaning a gun are not classified as hunting accidents. These are non-hunting accidents which are formally defined as “Any incident involving a firearm or bow which occurs while engaged in non-hunting activity.” These non-hunting accidents, when reported, are summarized only in Section 9 of the State, Provincial and Region reports.

This Annual Hunter Accident Report is a descriptive study designed to provide data related to hunting injuries in a reasonably standardized form. Data collection and presentation does not take into consideration such variables as state or provincial hunting regulations, differences in topography and ground cover, length of seasons, compliance with regulations, and other differences between states, provinces and regions. Therefore, use of this data in cause and effect studies is inappropriate.

The use of this data in cause and effect studies within a state may be appropriate provided proper definition and control of variables is built into the study. In any case, generalization of findings would be limited to the state in which the study was conducted.

The International Hunter Education Association invites your comments on this report. If you have suggestions, please contact the IHEA, P.O. Box 490, Wellington, Colorado 80549, phone (970) 568-7954, Fax (970) 568-7955. Home Page: http://www.fortnet.org/~ihea/

[Sniper[MI]]

Let them collect their own data....

[7mmag6]

According to a 2003 Field & Stream National Hunting Survey, sportsmen overwhelmingly support reasonable gun safety proposals. Moreover, an overwhelming majority of hunters support proposals like background checks to purchase guns, keeping military style assault weapons off our streets and the elimination of cop killer bullets.

In recent years, extreme political positions purporting to support gun rights have jeopardized our sport and have hurt the image of responsible gun owners. Unless the sporting community can become unified behind an organization that fights for safe and responsible hunting and shooting practices and sensible gun ownership, future generations may be unable to participate in and enjoy the shooting sports.

[Big Dog]

Sadly, many Sportsmen and Hunters naively work to undermine our interest in collecting and owning historical military surplus weapons. The DemLibs truly know the concept of "Devide and Conquer".
This is one reason it's so hard to bring an enlightened program like CCW to certain states, as well as the idea of being able to defend ones self and family without having to turn one's back on the aggressor.
There is "Reasonable Gun Safety", then there is "Gun-Grabbing Extremism".
To the Antis - they are the same thing.

I had a 'hunter' at the range awhile back. He opined loudly and vociferously that "Nobody needed an AR-15. Ya cain't hunt a deer with it!" I asked him what he'd do when "They" told him to hand in his "High Powered Sniper Rifle" . . . He had no answer.

Ben Franklin said it best - "We must all stand together, or surely we will all hang separately."

[Rave]

Good point!:nod:

[Rufus Rhastus J]

agreed!

[BattleRifleG3]

I learned in hunter's safety that traffic accidents en route to go hunting are classified as "hunting accidents".

Also learned that the #1 cause of death while hunting was hypothermia. #2 was falling from a tree stand.

[hounddawg]

Originally Posted by Big Dog

I had a 'hunter' at the range awhile back. He opined loudly and vociferously that "Nobody needed an AR-15. Ya cain't hunt a deer with it!" I asked him what he'd do when "They" told him to hand in his "High Powered Sniper Rifle" . . . He had no answer.
Ben Franklin said it best - "We must all stand together, or surely we will all hang separately."

I have heard the same ca-ca out at my range. I do not own any semi-auto rifles. This is not because I object to civillians owning them. I excercise my right NOT to own one. This does not mean that I object to any responsible person owning a semi-automatic rifle. Hell, for all I care you could own a machinegun. Or a hundred. Or even a TANK. I like my milsurp and repro muzzleloaders. I realise that if the crazies take away Big Dog's AR's and SKS's and AK's today, they WILL take away my Enfield and my K31 and my Mosins next week, and by the end of the month they will have taken my Kentucky rifles and my Hawkin rifle also.

The first incursions on our rights are the most dangerous for they open the road to further oppression. With our guns we are citizens. Without them we are subjects.

That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

[SilverRun]

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759