Sportsmen show some backbone-Great ESPN piece

It’s time for outdoorsmen to show some backbone. ESPN got it right this time.  http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/fishing/news/story?id=4546504

The other day I got my first nasty email from a tree hugger who called this site “too competitive” and that was before his email got more aggressive.  He went on to spill a bunch of other tree hugger garbage about how hunters and fishermen don’t have a clue about wildlife conservation. 

Let me get on my soapbox for a minute.  It seems that everytime some poorly educated but morally arrogant liberal tells outdoorsmen that use-based conservation is somehow flawed or wrong, we cower into our shell rather than educate.  The truth is that use based conservationists have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into wildlife and fish conservation, millions of man hours of free labor and provide an economic incentive to government and locals to protect natural resources.  My friends, there is a vocal minority who will shout us down, if we don’t stand up for ourselves.  We have the moral high ground, we have paid our dues, and wildlife conservation will fail without our support-as Steve Bowman at ESPN has so correctly stated-it’s time we start playing our role.  We are the leaders of conservation, we are the face of true and sustainable environmentalism-It’s time we start acting like it.

The GWHunter

The Free Diver and the Shark

These pictures are simply so interesting they leave you wanting to know more. Beautiful photography, even more captivating when you consider these guys do all this stuff while holding thier breath.

While the photos have created quite the Internet buzz, the whole story is simply more fascinating than one could imagine.  After a 2 hour showdown, the shark was killed in self-defense.  Free diver Craig Clasen insightful comment, “I want to be very clear…That was not a proud kill for me, but I didn’t have a choice.  She was just being a shark.”

Photography by D. J. Struntz

For the full story follow the link to outside magazine http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200903/spearfishermen-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rigs-1.html

Cake Addiction-Great White Hunter Style

Our friend Julie is one of the most talented people I know.  Left her high powered attorney job after attending Berkley Law School and now does cakes fulltime.  Look carefully, this shotgun and hat are actually a groom’s cake (or bday cake, I forget.)  Used my kid’s shotgun as the model.

Here are a few more of Julie’s other amazing, and recent creations.

 

 

 

 

 

Visit Julie’s Site at http://www.layers-cake.com/

Thanks Julie for letting me post some of your amazing pictures.

Crazy Knife

http://ow.ly/tEt2

Take a peek at this knife-every tool a person could ever want.

Elderly Woman Attacked by Racoons

To read the startling story click through to the Foxnew story http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,560150,00.html?test=latestnews

Awesome Shark Picture

Meal in MotionPhotograph by Doug Perrine, SeaPics
From “Spirit of the Wild,”
National Geographic, September 2005

For more great underwater pictures from National Geographic visit their website http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/wallpapers/underwater