Lilred's rant of the week...gun shows

[Lilred]

Well...not really a gun show. Last weekend was the outdoor sportsman show. It's all about huntin. I love goin every year. They have the big buck contest, turkey callin contests and all kinds of mounts and huntin stuff. But COOL huntin stuff. Like a trapper sellin his furs, artists sellin paintings, boxes of ammo fer good deals etc etc.
I was as excited as a sly fox in a henhouse full of 1 legged chickens. Drove the hour and 1/2 ($40 in gas) paid the 9.50 to git in and the place was packed.
First problem...the whole thing was technologically advanced!!!!! (Dern that was a big word)

Fer instance...NO shells. But they had piles of laser guided systems fer rifles, treestands that did everything but climb the dam tree fer ya, GPS systems and lots of dixie outfitters t-shirts. The 3 out of 100 vendors that had huntin clothes were so high in price, Cabelas looked like the Dollar General store compared to em. OK...and this here REALLY got me MAD.

WHY would a hunt club pay God knows what to rent the booth fer 2 days?? None of em will recruit a member, all they did was try to git you to buy tickets to raffle a gun. Well..how much money could you really raise after travelin so fer, payin fer the booth, the gun and all that other crap? One of em was from round here and they had 3 mounts above their head with a huge sign with their name on it. The mounts were perty nice bucks. So what happens???
You get a table fulla fellas askin where they killed those big bucks? "On our lease." Are ya'll lookin for more members? "no but you can buy this raffle ticket...$20 gits ya a shot at this rifle."
After that conversation, would you buy a ticket??? Uh...no. They were arsholes. I knew better than to say anythin, I stood there long enough to see how fer they would go with that conversation. Then they laughed at the poor boy when he walked away. Then they looked at me and asked me iffin I wanted a ticket. I will not repeat my answer here as it would deem me unladylike.

Would you REALLY buy a new dodge pickup w/ camo tape all over it at a huntin show? It as only 34,999...a show "special."
God forbid you'd go to an outdoors show and NOT buy a sandwhich bag full of empty 12 ga hulls fer $ 7.99!
Which by the way was the only reloadin thing they had there.

There was some homemade turkey calls there...cool.
No tannin or leathers/hides. Way too many taxidermists but some cool mounts. I did see the world-record non-typical muzzloader buck..came from va..that was cool.

What happened to all the things we brave the crowds, the city and all that to go see? Since when has huntin been so dam comercialized? Does the average hunter really think that these new-fangled gadgets will even the odds fer him?
Next year, I'm gonna git me a booth.
I'm gonna have applications to join the Act Right church, I'm gonna give lectures on how we all have the "hunter's instinct" in us and how we need to learn to hone THAT into a huntin tool vs honing in laser guided crap.
Then I'm gonna search all over the country and buy the biggest mounts you have ever seen. I'm gonna hang em up behind me and when those hunt club idgits ask iffin I'm takin members in my hunt club, I'm gonna smile as perty as the sunrise and tell em that *****, ****** and ******* like they are aint allowed and you have to be a member of the Act Right church for at least 10 years to be a member. When they asked where we killed all them deer..I'm gonna tell em " on YOUR lease"....lol