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NY Hunting Contest Legislation

 

As most of you know, the last few years there has been bicameral legislation to ban hunting contests in NY.

 

The media attention as well as the grassroots organizing of anti-hunters generated a lot of support for the proposal.

The matter of hunting contests is outside the scope of NY Dove Hunting and is not part of our agenda. However, we want to point out the level of support needed to compel the Legislature.

 

The organization Ban Hunting Contests in NY has collected 19.641 petition signatures and their Facebook page is followed by 2,582.

Those numbers have two implications: 1) The antis in NY are still bigger and better organized than us. 2) We are shooting for 10,000 signatures – they are not able to move legislation with almost twice that number. That suggests 10,000 may not be enough for us. For whatever its worth, they also have double the number of Facebook followers as us; although we have a newsletter that is mailed to about 2,000 people, most of who are not following our Facebook page.

 

As we continue to correspond with the downstate assembly once a month, we need all of you to continue working hard to get petition signatures.

 

 

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I may sound like an ass but really I don't care for most contests. Too much emphasis on size and or score.. brings out the worse in people and what they do to win.. I like the youth contest as size doesn't matter it's the story and enthusiasm the kid puts into the story.. I really wouldn't have a problem if they banned them,but that is my own opinion I'm sure there are competitive people out there that just live for them.. to each his own.

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I may sound like an ass but really I don't care for most contests. Too much emphasis on size and or score.. brings out the worse in people and what they do to win.. I like the youth contest as size doesn't matter it's the story and enthusiasm the kid puts into the story.. I really wouldn't have a problem if they banned them,but that is my own opinion I'm sure there are competitive people out there that just live for them.. to each his own.

 

I am not advocating for or against contests, and on a personal level I have no interest in participating in any. That is why in the third paragraph of the OP I indicated this: "The matter of hunting contests is outside the scope of NY Dove Hunting and is not part of our agenda. However, we want to point out the level of support needed to compel the Legislature."

 

The point I was trying to get across was the level of organization in of anti-hunters in New York. The specific target of my thread was dove hunting advocates, although, the message applies across hunting. 

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Of course the Anti's are better organized, just look at this site, very rarely do you find agreement on anything here. And the same applies to the pro-hunters, one group want s this and another wants that and before you know it so and so is an idiot and soon no agrees with anyone else. The Anti's understand the importance of public relations while the majority of hunters can't even communicate amongst themselves, forgot about trying to win over the public at large.   

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Of course the Anti's are better organized, just look at this site, very rarely do you find agreement on anything here. And the same applies to the pro-hunters, one group want s this and another wants that and before you know it so and so is an idiot and soon no agrees with anyone else. The Anti's understand the importance of public relations while the majority of hunters can't even communicate amongst themselves, forgot about trying to win over the public at large.   

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That post cracks me up Uptown! Never seen a post from you about actually being in the woods and hunting, much less killing any game. Never seen you post anything to help other hunters who ask questions. Never seen you post in a thread about guns or ammo.

How many days did you get in last deer season? How many days did you Spring turkey hunt? Did you do any small game hunting ( squirrel, rabbit, birds )?

 

There's a lot of agreement here, about HUNTING! Most of the arguing going on is in the political section. You would know that if you read more then just the political section. Clues are on sale this week, buy a few.

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That post cracks me up Uptown! Never seen a post from you about actually being in the woods and hunting, much less killing any game. Never seen you post anything to help other hunters who ask questions. Never seen you post in a thread about guns or ammo.

How many days did you get in last deer season? How many days did you Spring turkey hunt? Did you do any small game hunting ( squirrel, rabbit, birds )?

 

There's a lot of agreement here, about HUNTING! Most of the arguing going on is in the political section. You would know that if you read more then just the political section. Clues are on sale this week, buy a few.

 

Im NOT donating to this site. What are you going to do about it? 

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Of course the Anti's are better organized, just look at this site, very rarely do you find agreement on anything here. And the same applies to the pro-hunters, one group want s this and another wants that and before you know it so and so is an idiot and soon no agrees with anyone else. The Anti's understand the importance of public relations while the majority of hunters can't even communicate amongst themselves, forgot about trying to win over the public at large.   

 

So what are your ideas on how to fix that? 

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