Picture source: Denver post - Bears in dens to be off limits to Colorado hunters.

Today’s hunting culture is a sick corruption of what was once a necessary survival skill. There is no “sport” in this barbaric practice. The argument that “game” licenses pay for conservation is a cruel joke. The needless killing of our wild neighbors is OK if a guy from Texas pays a little for a license to satisfy his bloodlust?

I try to be understanding but I have come to hate the arrival of the men who invade the countryside near our place, leaving a tail of beer bottles, cans and trash and hunting illegally from their pickups.

I’m having a hard time forgiving the ignorant jerk who ignored the posted signs we have up and illegally shot and killed our resident buck pronghorn within 30 yards of the house.

All the so called “sports”men will blast me for writing this and the “sporting” goods manufacturers lobbyists will get big bucks to influence lawmakers, justifying the craziness with claims of hunting’s importance to the economy.

One day, after we have grown more as a culture, there will be no more hunting and even looking at an old picture of someone gloating over a kill like this will bring tears to the eyes as this picture did for me.