There's the mountain lion hunt ban referendum we all know about.
Then there's a companion referendum which sets the mountain lion hunt to 2 weeeks, and nothing but meat can be kept by the hunter. Hide, head, etc must be surrendered to cpw (applies to cats only)
It's a real cluster
Keepitreal's Link
The link goes to the MN DNR website under their "tips" section. Some good material to have on hand for informing the non hunting public about the who, what, when, where, and why questions that often go unanswered resulting in an uniformed and ignorant vote.
Keepitreal's Link
You'll have to copy and paste and if that don't work then nevermind.
"Do hunting and trapping video's hurt hunting and trapping"? YES, then can be use to portray hunters and trappers as mindless, unethical takers of wildlife and they will show the worst of the worst to get their point across. Look up Cats Aren't Trophies and see the video's they are using to push their points. A picture is worth a 1000 words.
Be it Initiative 91 or 101, both get at banning "trophy" or any mt lion and bobcat hunting.
This is all from the California Mt. Lion ban play book. Also look up Julie Marshall communications coordinator at the Center for Humane Economy. She states this "Colorado Initiative as support from about 50 states and national animal advocacy groups."
Meanwhile our side has some statistics, which will be questioned by the "experts", and which immediately turns off the nonhunting voters who vote solely on emotion.
Wait until you see the TV ads they have planned for the vote on bowhunting sometime in the future. Using our own YouTube videos...
How true is that!!!
I have a few videos on YouTube so I may be part of that problem. I only used it so I can have them play on my website or other websites selling a hunting product I make. I'm not what I'd call a YouTuber but I posted a video of the moose I got last year with the long bow. It hit 250k views at a rate of 30k views a day only 10 days into it. it was getting congratulations from around the globe in the comments with very few negative comments which I simply removed. Then YouTube dropped it like a dirty shirt after a short dispute in a conversation with someone who claimed to be pro hunting but was telling me that bow hunting was pure ego and was throwing out false statistics of wound rates vs rifle hunting and such Haha. I only used the moose video to try and bring traffic to my website which worked well for the time being. The video now gets less than 50 views a day and the website visits have slowed. After the fact I somewhat regret putting the moose video up and may remove it with the way this culture is headed. Just don't want to be part of the problem eh.
