Blackpowder Hunting Magazine

[Hammerspur]

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It seems that The International Blackpowder Hunting Association, which distributes the magazine "Blackpowder Hunting'' uses AOL as it's internet service provider.

For those who don't know it America Online supports anti-gun and anti hunting lobbying groups as part of it's regular policy.

For a hunting organization to be wooing the public to join it's ranks and fork over dollars, some of which is donated to extremists who would seek to abolish our constitutional rights is hypocricy and duplicity to the nth degree.

I urge all Graybeard users who are IBHA members to contact publisher and editor Debra Bradbury and express your disatisfaction whith this arrangement.

Blackpowder Hunting Tel: (307) 436-9817
P.O.Box 1180
Glenrock, WY 82637-1180 www.blackpowderhunting.org

www.debibha@aol.com

[Hammerspur]

That should be JUST: debibha@aol.com

(Lack of sleep...)

[Wolfhound]

This grudge of yours against the IBHA is really ridiculous.

Last week my membership renewal notice from IBHA (The Intl. Blackpowder Hunting Assn.) arrived. I renewed for two years.

Yesterday the Spring issue of 'Blackpowder Hunting' came in.
IMO that once excellent publication has gone WAY downhill. What used to be a real hotbed of useful information, technical know-how and advice has devolved into a generic advertising in disguise pap-sheet. This is clearly borne out by the feature article by Jim Shockey, Prince of Shills

No product tests, no new innovations, no history, nothing but humdrum narratives about the exceedingly ordinary. One piece by the publisher covers a hunt using TC's ProHunter Encore: "The Next Generation Of Muzzleloaders" it declares. Where have these people been during the last decade, it a time warp?

It is subtitled "A whitetail hunt with a new, easy to clean muzzleloader." HUH?! I thought this was supposed to be a magazine for enthusiasts, not novices. What a piece of crap, talk about amateur hour.

I used to wait anxiously for each new issue, saved each one as valuable reference material. This latest wouldn't serve well as anything but filler for the 'water closet library.'  :?

And now this?

 
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It seems that The International Blackpowder Hunting Association, which distributes the magazine "Blackpowder Hunting'' uses AOL as it's internet service provider.

For those who don't know it America Online supports anti-gun and anti hunting lobbying groups as part of it's regular policy.

For a hunting organization to be wooing the public to join it's ranks and fork over dollars, some of which is donated to extremists who would seek to abolish our constitutional rights is hypocricy and duplicity to the nth degree.

I urge all Graybeard users who are IBHA members to contact publisher and editor Debra Bradbury and express your disatisfaction whith this arrangement.

Blackpowder Hunting Tel: (307) 436-9817
P.O.Box 1180
Glenrock, WY 82637-1180 www.blackpowderhunting.org

www.debibha@aol.com

[Hammerspur]

My first post has to do with the decline of the magazine. It used to have more than beginner's articles.

The second has to do with their apparent patronage of an anti-gun organization, WHICH AOL IS. I felt it was my duty on a shooting site to let others know. Mind you, this is stuff I just found out about, not some grudge.

You misunderstand.

[Wolfhound]

No it's just the editor that using AOL. That's her choice to make although it would not be mine.