Hey Skinny... great post and article. I agree. Currently I am the president of Hawaii Hunting Association. We're hoping to get re-involved in 2008 with the many clubs here in Hawaii that have no voice.
This idea of hunter behavior is an important one. You cite 83 % of the public support hunting. That is not the statistic we've gotten from the NSSF, IHEA, or USFWS surveys. The statistics we have show a 57/43 up or down, depending how you phrase the question.
IHEA suggests that roughly 12% of the population support Hunting, 17% oppose Hunting, and 70% have no opinion. If we are to say that the no opinion and the support hunting together is the 82 or 83%, that's fine, but that is a very fragile 83% when you are relying on undecideds, a bad visual could change them immediately to anti.
That someone is out hunting, whether good or bad, is true. But you are exactly right, get the public involved. The good are the hunters, the bad are the maggots...
Aloha...
