Greetings C.A.S.H. Members and Supporters,
It’s currently early archery season around here and that means any deer is fair game for impaling by any camouflage-clad killer out there wanting to score some bragging rights among his or her fellow conscienceless primitive wannabes. If survival of the most savage were a law of the jungle, bowhunters would be right up there with the most brutal.
A few decades ago, I worked with a guy in Montana who was about as fanatic a hunter as you’ll ever meet. Each year by early Autumn, he would be scheming his next deer kill—never missing an opportunity to slay another wild animal.
An unrepentant killer of all things Cervidae, the only time he spoke of regret was after he’d decided to try bowhunting for a season. He was hiding in a tree-stand over a deer trail (a popular strategy, familiar to anyone keeping track of hunting accidents), when a “nice” buck approached within range of his powerful compound bow.
But the steel-tipped arrow he launched went right through the deer, who was able to get far away, before dying somewhere—never to be recovered. Even such a fanatical hunter was so sickened by what he’d done that he swore off bowhunting from that day on.
You don’t have to take our word for it; if you don’t want to believe us animal advocates that archery is the cruelest kill method in a hunter’s quiver, take it from a die-hard “sportsman.”
Bowhunting is becoming a more and more common cull method among suburbanites wanting to protect their prize rose bushes or keep their highways deer-free to ensure they can race down them at maximum mph without taking another being’s safety into account. (Of course, we know that’s not the true subject of their concern, as they speed away in their new Subaru, Toyota or Ford F-150.)
But, just because it’s quieter or somewhat safer for other recreationists, doesn’t make bowhunting a reasonable, acceptable way to slaughter deer in city parks (or anywhere). And keeping non-consumptive users out of the woods so they won’t witness the carnage is downright unfair to everyone except the would-be killers.
Sadly for any deer wary enough to survive the sport- archers intrusion into their wild homes, next week marks the start of “general” deer season. That means anyone with a gun and an unwholesome urge to kill will be out blasting at anything that moves or even remotely appears deer-like.
But you can count on C.A.S.H. To keep track of their follies and barbarism, and let you know whenever a hunter shoots or impales anyone of a non-game species (i.e., human), or just generally breaks the few rules governing their “sport” they’ve supposedly agreed to.
Visit: https://cash.wrightbrain.net/hunting-accidents/
Thank you again for all of your support,
Jim
Jim Robertson
President, the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting