Friday, September 25th, 2009...11:35 am
9/19/2009 Hunting Prairie Birds in Nebraska
9/19 Nebraska
We got in one last round for the sand hills. Same results as before. I am not really sure what went wrong but all the early reports had the area looking good. Ted has been coming here 30 years and he had never seen this few birds.
Nebraska and most of the states in this area are doing research on Sharptails and Prairie Chickens. Part of the research requires you to save a wing from each bird and fill out some information about your hunt. It’s a reasonable thing to do and I think most folks that hunt the prairie birds appreciate that something is being done for them.
The issue that I have is with the idiot that cleans his birds at the roadside by the collection area and then leaves the guts, feathers, feet, head and wings for everyone to see. I do not understand this kind of behavior. I see it all the time and not just from birdhunters. Deer hunters do it also.
There is a very active anti hunter community, there is also a very active pro hunter community. You will never convince either side that the other has any valid points. I’m OK with that fact.
The issue is the folks in the middle. The vast majority of folks out there don’t have real strong feelings one way or another.
When hunters show this kind of disrespect to the game we hunt and to the land and the other non hunters that also enjoy that land, we add to the ranks of the antihunters.
This kind of idiotic act helps the people that are fighting to end your way of life. When hunters act with this level of disrespect, we get what we deserve.
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