ACCESS TO RESPONSIBLE HUNTING

HUNTING ETHICS; SAVE OUR SPORT

RESPONSIBLE HUNTING AND SHOOTING ARE CRITICAL ELEMENTS TO THE FUTURE OF OUR SPORT.

By Del Albright

Hunting is like off-roading or four-wheeling sports, we must do it right if we want to continue to do it in the future.  Irresponsible behavior or lack of ethics will get us shut down by the people who do not like what we do anyway.  They do not try to hide their mission of shutting us out.

Here are some simple tips to keep our hunting/shooting sports alive.

FIRST: Be ethical; make clean kills and avoid stupid (long, or running) shots that you know you cannot make; and do not ruin someone else's hunt.

For more on Recreation Ethics visit BlueRibbon Coalition/Sharetrails.Org

SECOND: Be courteous of other hunters and other land users; think about where you park and how you drive/walk into the area where others are hunting.

THIRD: Be informed by reading about ethics and rules from places like the NRA or TreadLightly! etc.

Visit TreadLightly! for more ideas and educational posters.

FOURTH:  Be clean; always pick up your trash and pack it out, including shells and target trash.  Leave your campsite better than you found it.

FIFTH: Be safe; follow the gun rules; never point a weapon at anyone (even if you think it's unloaded); and properly store your weapon in your vehicle -- safely and legally.

Set the example for others; pass on the tradition, the right way!

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Del

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TRAIL ETHICS AND COMMON COURTESY

BUILD YOUR CLUB A TRAIL ETHICS/COMMON COURTESY LIST AND HELP SAVE OUR SPORTS!

By Del Albright

One primary way to save our sports and keep our trails open is to always set a good example for others...especially for those who are not members of organized recreation and might not know the rules of the road.  Your club or group should have a list of rules/ethics to play by.  It's not a hard thing to build (the list) and it just takes education to get folks to follow along.  Well, some folks might never get it and they just need to be busted by the law if needed.

But for most of us, given a simple set of common sense rules (trail ethics), we will follow them.  If you don't want to build your own, use something like these samples.  If you want to build your own and adapt it to your specific area, just sift and sort through these and pick the ones that make the most sense to your club.

Let's bring in the kids too!  Don't expect public schools, for the most part, to teach your kid common sense or even common courtesy....let alone manners.  It's just not happening in most places.  Seems like a lot of schools would rather indoctrinate your kid into hugging a tree or loving liberalism. Be that as it may, include your kids in the ethics you use for your club/group. Teach them young.

A lot of what folks think about us comes from our "image."  And image is perception sometimes....what people perceive; they believe.  So be careful when it comes to our image.  The minute we get lazy and don't stop for some trail trash, there will be someone who wants to blame that trash on us!

Here are some links to great Trail Ethics and some common courtesy stuff that will help you find the best list for you and your club/group.

Some Basic Training Rules for Life:

http://www.delalbright.com/Articles/basic_training.htm

More on common sense and courtesy:

http://www.delalbright.com/Articles/merging_traffic.htm

BRC Recreation Code of Ethics:

https://www.sharetrails.org/about/ethics

About the Image of Recreationists:

http://www.delalbright.com/articles/image.htm

Set the example; help save our sports and trails.

Del