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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 329772" data-attributes="member: 389">If that was the norm, I think you'd find a lot more people in support of it.It's not, and you know it.&nbsp; There's a wide variety of able bodied people paying for the HFH experience to pawn it off to their millionaire friends as a &quot;trophy&quot; for their office or den.There are also a shitload of volunteer organizations and charities that would have also hooked that man up with a quality free range experience.&nbsp; Sporting Chance is just one of those organizations.&nbsp; We can play hypotheticals and fringe experiences all day long, but when a good share of the HFH critters are hanging in some able-bodied Wall Street trader's office just because he sought expediency, well...some outdoorsmen and women don't like being lumped in with that fringe.&nbsp; It puts a stain on our hobby that the big city voters don't like and it helps them become more and more anti-hunting.Not many HFH operations spend the money necessary to make it a free-range kind of experience, you know...the kind where going home empty handed is a real possibility.&nbsp; They do exist, but they again are on the fringe of the discussion.- - - Updated - - -lastly...as HFH operations try to equate themselves with free-range hunting, the non-hunting layperson may come to believe they are one and the same.&nbsp; Letting someone come in and kill an animal they purchased is fine by me, just don't pawn it off as being equivalent to what the vast majority of us do each fall.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 329772, member: 389"] If that was the norm, I think you'd find a lot more people in support of it. It's not, and you know it. There's a wide variety of able bodied people paying for the HFH experience to pawn it off to their millionaire friends as a "trophy" for their office or den. There are also a shitload of volunteer organizations and charities that would have also hooked that man up with a quality free range experience. Sporting Chance is just one of those organizations. We can play hypotheticals and fringe experiences all day long, but when a good share of the HFH critters are hanging in some able-bodied Wall Street trader's office just because he sought expediency, well...some outdoorsmen and women don't like being lumped in with that fringe. It puts a stain on our hobby that the big city voters don't like and it helps them become more and more anti-hunting. Not many HFH operations spend the money necessary to make it a free-range kind of experience, you know...the kind where going home empty handed is a real possibility. They do exist, but they again are on the fringe of the discussion. [COLOR="silver"][SIZE=1]- - - Updated - - -[/SIZE][/COLOR] lastly...as HFH operations try to equate themselves with free-range hunting, the non-hunting layperson may come to believe they are one and the same. Letting someone come in and kill an animal they purchased is fine by me, just don't pawn it off as being equivalent to what the vast majority of us do each fall. [/QUOTE]

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