Sunday, September 16, 2012

This Is Why My Hunting Tees Are Important

By Larry Thatcher


It almost seem like you can't get on the Internet these days without finding someone who is complaining about hunting, guns, or the abuse of animals. These people make accusations against hunters without really knowing anything about us or what we do. Everything they know about hunting, they learned from Disney movies. We are not the scary villains that kill the baby deer's mom. We are hunters who obey time-honored laws and traditions. We eat what we kill. We teach our children to honor nature. I wear my whitetail huntsman tees to remind me of all of these things.

Humans are hunters. Did you know that human beings are some of the greatest distance runners on the planet? We are built to track, hunt, and run down prey to the point of exhaustion. Our ancestors would run for days until an animal died from over exertion, and then we would rebuild our own tired, sore muscles from the protein their meat provides. We would not be here today if we had not developed those skills, and we certainly wouldn't have the most advanced brains in the world today. My hunting shirts are a symbol of my pride in our species.

The world is indeed crumbling around us because of terrible things that humans have done. Carbon emissions are ruining the atmosphere, ageless jungles are being torn down in South America for hardwoods, and we're putting more plastic in the ground than we are seeds. This is not the way of the hunter, though. The hunter craves the vast expanses of untouched wilderness. The hunter cherishes nature in all of its bounty and wants to preserve that bounty. I would even go so far as to say that the average hunter is more of an environmental activist than many people who say they are. I wear my outdoorsman t-shirts because I want to save nature, not destroy it.

Another thing that people don't understand is the prodigious rate in which deer and elk breed. If their populations are net kept in strict control, they would be encroaching into towns and starving to death during the harsh winters. Where once there were many natural predators keeping the populations down, those natural enemies are now dwindled in numbers. If we did not hunt, the fate of all deer would be much grimmer. I wear these outdoor sportsman clothes because I understand how nature works.

There is not a single person reading this article that doesn't have a special talent for killing prey for food and nourishment. It is simply how we were built. I understand that many have become too modernized to ever even care to get back to those special talents, but for all of our sakes...leave us alone who do. We are hunters, and we are good people who do good things in the world. I wear hunting t-shirts because I am proud of who I am.




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