Dear HCN,
Jim Fergus could’ve just
typed something like: “Stupid, citified yuppies just don’t
understand hunting. They never will, and they shouldn’t even try
because hunters don’t care what they think.” (HCN,
1/22/96).
Perhaps what non-hunters don’t get is
how shooting the life out of a living creature can be such a
positive experience. But that’s what it always seems to come down
to when hunters are put on the defensive. Just read Fergus’ last
line: “When we lose the hunters … we will have lost everything.”
Maybe I’d be a little more impressed if the
hunters left their high-power rifles and scopes and bows and
four-wheelers and what-all at home and hunted like the ancestors
they claim to emulate. It seems pretty simple, Jim: You guys like
killing stuff. It obviously gives you a high. I’m not for it and
I’m not against it, I just can’t fathom it (at least since I left
adolescence). But you don’t give a damn what I think. And that is
all you were trying to say, isn’t
it?
Scott
McIntyre
Frisco,
Colorado
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline We get it, does Fergus?.
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