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...hunters in pickup trucks, who then move in for an easy kill. Too often their shots are not fatal, detractors say. "Anyone who has ever heard the screams of an animal being torn apart by dogs knows why we are fighting for this cause," says Stew Churchwell of Idaho Sportsmen for Fair Hunting...
Still, reformers face formidable opposition from sportsmen's groups and gun clubs. "The issues boil down to whom do we want to manage our wildlife--professionals or people with a hidden agenda?" asserts Don Clower, chairman of Idaho's Sportsmen's Heritage Defense Fund. In Idaho, foes of the bear proposition count the Governor and nearly all state legislators on their side, and initiative backers complain they are being outspent 4 to 1. In Michigan as in Idaho, opponents contend that abolishing spring hunting, baiting and hounding would lead to an onslaught of bear problems and thwart hunters...
Coubertin was only 29 years old when he proposed the revival of the classical Olympic Games, which had been dead for 15 centuries. A man of erudition, zeal and diplomacy, Coubertin rallied sportsmen from around the world and persuaded the Greek government to play host to the first of what he hoped would be quadrennial spectacles. He personally wrote the invitations for those first Games and even helped design the medals. What thanks did he get? Well, as his wife said after the first successful modern Olympics, in Athens, "Why was it that not one time did they mention your...
...have come here today to reaffirm my support for the great American outdoors and Second Amendment rights," Alexander said outside of Steve's Sportsmen's Den and Tackle Shop...
...Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands for hunting and fishing. "If the state gets the lands,'' predicts Republican state senator Al Bishop, "they will go on the sales block...