Sportsmen unite

What’s with the animosity towards “good ol’ boys” and “rednecks”? They are citizens, taxpayers, and put their pants on just like everyone else. I found Hal Herring’s article long, but he was trying to thoroughly cover a big subject. I believe it is a fair representation of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife. SFW/SFH in Idaho […]

How appalling to see so many lunatic hairless apes with guns in “Predator hunters for the environment.” The ugly and ignorant gene link is proven by these stupid-looking white-trash rednecks. There is no reverence for life or self-control, much less “conservation” in the pages of this issue. When future generations research conservation and come across […]

Although they were painful to look at, I am glad you put the photographs of glory-hungry hunters posing with the animals they killed in the June 25 issue. New conservationists indeed! Their motives are those of Layne Bangerter, who, as natural resources advisor to Idaho’s governor, claims it is normal to “want animals to hunt, […]

While I find many of your recent articles highly relevant, even vital, to those of us who love (or loathe) the West, the quality of writing and editing is sometimes disappointing. Hal Herring stepped well past the line of good judgment with his comment that it would be fun to hunt coyotes with a machine […]

Hal Herring exalts Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife (SFW) and contends that sportsmen alone should be given the credit for wildlife protection because they paid for wildlife management “through the decades into a variety of revenue streams.” That logic is flawed for two reasons. Herring glides over the fact that during the last century many […]

In regards to your article about the organization Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, I would just like to let people know that most “hunter conservation” groups out there, unlike SFW, do not support unlimited predator killing and the elimination of large carnivores like wolves and grizzlies. For instance, the group Backcountry Hunters and Anglers (www.backcountryhunters.org) […]

Habitat, habitat, habitat; repeat over and over, and if the hunting and fishing gods are with us, it will become the mantra of every hunting and angling group in America. Every group, from Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife to the Vegetarians for Huntable Wildlife (OK, I made that one up), knows in its heart of […]

So Hal Herring agrees with the dimwit teen who thinks it would be fun to machine-gun coyotes… also a great description of a snot-nosed kid jumping back and forth over a line of frozen, bloody coyote carcasses. And you wonder why some people think hunters are bloodthirsty freaks? I certainly am not opposed to responsible […]

This is in response to Hal Herring’s well-written and informative article. Your cover was devastating. That something so beautiful can no longer roam free but ends up in the arms of one small human with blood on his hands and a smirk on his face – I simply fail to understand what would give one […]

How can you devote nine grisly pages to a rant on killing animals, by a guy who discredits himself – and all reportorial objectivity – by telling us he’d love to machine-gun coyotes? Shame on you. Your cover is sickening: a fool who kills a big beautiful lion so he can mount its head in […]

On the cover of your next issue, would you try very hard to get a picture of a mountain lion eating Kevin Smith. It would be more uplifting and less depressing than this one. Jim Sage Alpine, Texas This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline We’ll send a photographer […]

Thank you for the cover of the June 25 issue. The picture is worth far more than a thousand words. Here are four that sum it up: blood on his hands. The expression (what there is of an expression) on Kevin Smith’s face is the reason I don’t trust myself to own a gun. Mary […]