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Title:	The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:	Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:	SALEM::PAPPALARDO

Created:	Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1561
Total number of notes:	17784

1062.0. "Letter to the Boston Herald" by WA1UAR::Michael McCarthy (Darn deer ducked!) Fri Oct 18 1991 18:41

	Here is a letter I'm sending out today...I urge others to write to
	the editor also...


Letters
The Boston Herald
One Herald Square
Boston, MA 02106-2096


Dear Editor:

	This is in response to a letter written by Nicholas Stamatos entitled 
"Hunting's no sport", published in the Boston Herald, Friday October 18, 1991.

	As a hunter, I am deeply offended by the remark that hunter's are 
"mindless beings tramping around the woods of New England".  Millions of 
Americans enjoy the deeply rooted tradition of hunting in America.  It is a 
sport which requires a great deal of planning and skill to be successful.  
My family and I enjoy venison far more than beef, chicken or pork which is 
often loaded with fat, chemicals and hormones.  What is the difference 
between taking a beef cow or chicken to market and harvesting a deer or 
pheasant?  The hunter must work hard for the meat that goes into the freezer.   
There is no sport in the supermarket check-out line . 

	It is also the only effective tool that wildlife biologists have to 
manage game populations.  With man's progress has come the reduction of 
wildlife habitat.  The annual deer harvest insures that there is adequate 
food in these areas for ALL game and non-game wildlife.  A perfect example is 
the Quabbin reservoir, where the deer population has been left unchecked for 
too long, threatening not only deer and wildlife to starvation, but endangers 
plant life and the quality of the state's largest water supply.

	Hunting is more than just a sport.  It's tradition.  It's 
conservation.




							Michael McCarthy

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1062.1	"ONE HUNDRED PERCENT"	XCUSME::MALONE	the melon man	`Sat Oct 19 1991 18:57`	12
	I agree "ONE HUNDRED PERCENT" How did the early settler's eat back when there wasn't a supermarket??? It take's alot of time to learn the right way and the wrong way you just can't go out and say I'm going to bring home supper tonight... Just my $.02 worth Dan
1062.2		DNEAST::GOULD_RYAN	In the Wilderness	`Mon Oct 21 1991 08:59`	3
	Re .0......Well done !!
1062.3	Amen	LANDO::HOFFMAN		`Mon Oct 21 1991 11:15`	3
	Tremendous letter ! VERY well said ! Dave H.
1062.4	The Hearald Viewpoint	EMDS::PETERSON		`Mon Oct 21 1991 12:13`	7
	Well, just get ready for Howie Carrs annual assault. (I heard him on the radio a while ago saying that it was still in the planning stage) He likes to use those same phrases-interspersed with stories from around the country of hunting accidents.
1062.5	GAME MANGEMENT AND HUNTING!	SOLVIT::FWALSH		`Mon Oct 21 1991 13:07`	7
	Nice job Mike, I also heard the other night on T.V. that money from hunting license, fire arms and ammuntion purchases put $1.1 billion dollars to game management. Thats a lot more than these other people that scream about hunting being wrong contribute. Fred
1062.6	EXCELLENT LETTER MIKE	ZEUS::GAZZANIGA		`Tue Oct 29 1991 08:01`	26
	RE: .0 ....Excellent letter mike... Just a list of the "mindless" that I've hunted with in the past 20+ years: 2 chiefs of police... 1 Byte magazine VP... 1 VP from Penn. Electric 8 or so Design and electrical engineers 3 store owners etc etc... Guess you could consider that group mindless.....?????????????????????? I believe that I am in good company in this file...and will also be writing Just a fact to add to what Mike had stated in .0 On Anticosti Island just north of Montreal Canada...there is a tremendous amount of hunting that takes place and like Mikes reference to the Quabbin...10,000 deer starve to death each year up there...