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Show Vote FOR Proposition 5 In response to the letter to the editor on Oct. 22 concerning Proposition 5, I find writing a letter in the paper is harder than just reading and being anonymous. anony-mous. I take great opposition to what was written last week by our neighbor in Idaho, as anyone should who anyone has been following the "hunting, anti-hunting" anti-hunting" situation for the last few years as many of us have. If you have read" the grass roots declarations of the anti-hunt organizations, then you would plainly read that they want to abolish "all blood sports." The "and" agenda is clear: take on the smallest group first, set precedents, then the next, and so on. They know, as was pointed out, not to take on deer hunting first. No one could call them that stupid. The recent article was very cleverly "written and orchestrated" orches-trated" to say that, as a hunter (do we know he really is?) he should know. I have talked to a lot of you, anti hunters and hunters, who have no idea about what hunting with hounds (fair chase) is all about. Almost none who oppose it have ever seen a real hunt. I say real because of the staged and faked supposed hunt scenes as shown widely on TV. Hound hunters are as opposed to these phony hunts as anyone else. In a real hunting situation not long ago, a TV crew went along to make a report. The main camera-man was very vocal in his oppo-sition to what he thought was going to happen. For two days he ribbed and complained during the unsuccessful part of the hunt. On the last day when a good track was found of a lion, he showed some interest. Gradually as the chase went on and on over ridge after canyon, he began to see what it was really like the effort and work, the training of the dogs, the dedication and commitment com-mitment of the hunters, the money mon-ey and time involved. At the end of a 10-hour hunt when he could hear the dogs barking "treed," he literally cheered at the accomplishment. accom-plishment. At the tree, however, he dreaded what he thought' was certainly going to happen to the beautiful cougar. The group took pictures and videos, looking the cat over carefully. When it was decided the lion was a young female, not damaged in any way but with a productive life ahead of her, to the total amazement of the cameraman, the hunters, with dogs in tow, waved her goodbye good-bye and went home. Hunting is so very important to this state that we as a group of hunting organizations have banded band-ed together to keep our present outdoor privileges. So many of our citizens are living in cities and have very little knowledge of the true facts about wildlife. They are bombarded bom-barded constantly by anti-hunting, anti-logging, and anti-everything-else that it's hard to know the truth. As was stated in last week's letter to the editor, one person, one vole and the majority fully and truthfully educated carry the day. Please become educated and vote FOR Proposition 5. Calvin Poll Panguitch |