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<blockquote data-quote="Grandslammer" data-source="post: 1487051" data-attributes="member: 107084"><p>Good debate. Ultimately, this country is not what it was long ago. We have been building fences and roads for over 200 years...for all sorts of reasons. Sure, I'd rather hunt when the country was as it was back then...but that's not possible. The country is vastly different, more developed and more populated than ever. The last few times I hunted public land in the lower 48 I went twenty miles into a wilderness area and yet saw hunters everyday...more hunters than elk in fact. At times I wished there was a fence to regulate the number of hunters per square mile rather than to contain the movement of wildlife.</p><p></p><p>Similarly, I once lived in Alaska for a few years and was dismayed that nearly every road sign in the state was shot full of holes...presumably by "hunters"...not "sportsmen". They shot holes in signs because they lacked respect for our sport and for the law. These were not ethical hunters even though they hunted in the least fenced, most wild state with the greatest amount of game in the nation. </p><p></p><p>At the end of the debate, its about respect for the animal, respect for sportsmanship, respect for the quality of the experience and for our treatment of each other. These things can all be present, with or without a fence, if executed in the right way. And, if executed in the wrong way, they can all be absent in the wildest places on earth. It all depends on us...not a fence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grandslammer, post: 1487051, member: 107084"] Good debate. Ultimately, this country is not what it was long ago. We have been building fences and roads for over 200 years...for all sorts of reasons. Sure, I'd rather hunt when the country was as it was back then...but that's not possible. The country is vastly different, more developed and more populated than ever. The last few times I hunted public land in the lower 48 I went twenty miles into a wilderness area and yet saw hunters everyday...more hunters than elk in fact. At times I wished there was a fence to regulate the number of hunters per square mile rather than to contain the movement of wildlife. Similarly, I once lived in Alaska for a few years and was dismayed that nearly every road sign in the state was shot full of holes...presumably by "hunters"...not "sportsmen". They shot holes in signs because they lacked respect for our sport and for the law. These were not ethical hunters even though they hunted in the least fenced, most wild state with the greatest amount of game in the nation. At the end of the debate, its about respect for the animal, respect for sportsmanship, respect for the quality of the experience and for our treatment of each other. These things can all be present, with or without a fence, if executed in the right way. And, if executed in the wrong way, they can all be absent in the wildest places on earth. It all depends on us...not a fence. [/QUOTE]
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