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[jocko]

AMERICA'S HUNTERS --- Pretty

Amazing!


The world's largest army... America 's hunters!
I had never thought about this...


A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion:


There were over 600,000 hunters
this season in the state of Wisconsin .
Allow me to restate that number:


Over the last several months,
Wisconsin's hunters became the eighth largest army in the world.


More men under arms than in Iran .


More than France and Germany combined.


These men deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin,
to hunt with firearms, and no one was killed.


That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods ofPennsylvania and Michigan's
700,000 hunters, all of whom have now returned home safely.
Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.
And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states.
It's millions more.


The point?


America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of
home-grown firepower.




Hunting... it's not just a way to fill the freezer.
It's a matter of national security.


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That's why all enemies,
foreign and domestic,
want to see us disarmed.

Food for thought,
when next we consider gun control.

Have A Great Day!
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Overall it's true,
so if we disregard some assumptions
that hunters don't possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain... what army of 2 million
would want to face 30, 40, 50 million armed citizens, add to that many of us have enough guns to arm many more if need be.
(IF YOU AGREE, AS I DO, PASS IT ON, I FEEL GOOD THAT I HAVE AN ARMY OF MILLIONS WHO WOULD PROTECT OUR LAND AND I SURE DON'T WANT THE GOVERNMENT TAKING CONTROL OF THE POSSESSION OF FIREARMS

[AJBert]

Many of us hunters do in fact have the skills of soldiers. Do not discount that fact, either.

[jlottmc]

Indeed, I would also say that some to many hunters have better skills than the military. Think about it, ever stalk a critter, I never had that kind of training in the Corps. Camouflage, marksmanship, survival, etc. are much more practiced by hunters than military (how many times does a hunter spend an unintended night on the woods?). Hunters also know how to be still and quiet. I know the training I had in the Corps, and what I am getting now in the Academy, and frankly in those areas, I feel shorted. Now I will also say that I learned my woods craft from some very old school people, and though I haven't done it in awhile, I still have my knowledge and skills.

[LorenzoB]

Very cool jocko! Thanks for pointing this out. I look forward to sharing it with others.

[muggsy]

It's a good thing that our founding fathers understood the concept of the citizen soldier.

[Bill K]

Yep, the stand hunters would do well at listening posts and perhaps ambushes. Still hunters at patrols. Cabin boys perhaps perimeter defense or better yet mess duty. :)

This is of course assuming our firearms are never seized and melted down. :eek:

[MikeG]

As both a hunter and a veteran, I just gotta comment. Jocko's post brought to mind a conversation I had with a contracted civilian truck driver in Iraq sometime in 2005. I forget exactly what all was said but a couple of his comments I'll never forget: he was telling me about bullets whizzing through his cab when he said "I wish they would let us have rifles so we could shoot back." I said something about me not being comfortable with that idea and his next comment was a rather indignant "Hell I shoot better than 90 percent of these boys." The hunter part of me sympathized completely since I felt the same way (I qualified "expert" every time up) but the sailor (yes Navy) in me could only visualize a bunch of wild-eyed disorganized truck drivers shooting at everything in sight and endangering those of us with training and a mission to accomplish. That truck driver and I never did see eye to eye that night but the conversation stuck with me ever since.

No real point to this post, just wanted to share that story and say that without training and organization personally I wouldn't be all that confident in our nation's hunters' ability to repel an invasion, especially when we're having enough trouble fending off attacks from our own elected leaders... kind of reminds me when the Navy F/A-18 squadrons VFA-122 and 125 merged together. With over 100 aircraft they became the world's 8th largest air force but it's still just a training squadron after all and without support couldn't defend itself, let alone this country...

I love this country and the freedoms we enjoy, especially to own guns and hunt, so I'm not trying to argue anything, just sayin' ;)

[itsthelaw]

There would always be mavericks and idiots in the group, but most of the hunters that I know would make me feel very safe. Even if you consider former military who now hunt, we would have a large force. Thanks for posting jocko!

[MikeG]

There would always be mavericks and idiots in the group, but most of the hunters that I know would make me feel very safe. Even if you consider former military who now hunt, we would have a large force. Thanks for posting jocko!

You sir are lucky then. Many if not most of the ones I've met certainly do not make me feel safe. That's why I pretty much only hunt with family or close friends. Maybe my experience is the exception tho. No disrespect intended to anyone

[les strat]

I agree 100%. It's way easier to hunt humans as opposed to animals that have keen senses that we can't fathom. Bad thing is, animals don't shoot back!

I hope we hunters have the guts to stand firm should this happen. I also hope our men in uniform have the stones to stand down and turn on our own government if the need be. They are there to protect us and our Constitution, not just follow orders.