hunters boycotting colorado

[dwalk]

just saw on Fox news this a.m. that huge numbers of hunters are boycotting hunting in Colorado as a result of their new firearms legislation.


IMO...THAT is the way to get the message across to legislators!


along with the refusal to sell to LE should get their attention and give them the message we do NOT approve of trampling our right and then demanding we pay for them to persecute us.


to most legislators, the constitution is but a "Bump in the road", an inconvenience, that blocks their agenda(s)

[two-blocked]

Fewer hunters on public lands- what's not to like! 

[SHOOTALL]

So hunters don't show up . It hurts gas stations , resturants , hotels/motels , camp grounds , meat processors and lots of more folks . Hope it works .

[SwampThing762]

Personally, I think we should take it a step further.  Do not buy any outdoor products from Colorado companies, and do not even take a fishing trip, as well.   Hopefully, we can cripple the Colorado economy.  The only way to deal with an anti-gunner politician is to break down everything around them.

ST762

[powderman]

Personally, I think we should take it a step further.  Do not buy any outdoor products from Colorado companies, and do not even take a fishing trip, as well.   Hopefully, we can cripple the Colorado economy.  The only way to deal with an anti-gunner politician is to break down everything around them.

ST762

 
SWAMPTHING. Agreed Sir. POWDERMAN. 

[jhm]

     Just go onto the Colorodo hunting site and send them a msg. stating that you and several of your friends were planing a trip there this yr. but have decided to CANCELL due to the recent gun laws !   They wont know if you were planing a trip or not but it might get them to wondering.  Jim

[lgm270]

I like the spirit of this idea, but as a practical matter it will hurt people in the hunting/firearms industry.  It won't hurt the liberal dirt bags who are responsible for these laws. 

Boycott everything related to Colorado, but don't boycott people in the firearms hunting business.  That's kind o f  how I see it.   

[bilmac]

Fox also had a blurb saying that there is a large magazine manufacturer that plans to leave the state.

[hillbill]

boycotting may be the only way to get the message across.i hate that it will probably only hurt guys like us in the guideing, hunting, fishing industries tho.they are really not the ones that voted in the dirt bag liberal politicians. they were voted in by the jonny come lately libs and tree hugger hippies. a friend of mine went to colorado last summer camping and said there was a rule or law against almost anything you can think of. he was afraid to urinate on the grass in the middle of nowhere in case someone was watching and report him.

[mechanic]

The outfitters may want to move to Montana.  Colorado doesn't want them obviously.
 
Ben

[hillbill]

The outfitters may want to move to Montana.  Colorado doesn't want them obviously.
 
Ben

yes this seems true. the majority of colorado citizens dont want yu coming there to molest their wildlife.ill bet in a few years,when a few libs have run into a elk with their dink cars and killed family members. they will sing a different tune.

[twoshooter]

Remember the ski industry, that is the biggie. Anything that could have negative impact there will be noticed.

[SHOOTALL]

Personally, I think we should take it a step further.  Do not buy any outdoor products from Colorado companies, and do not even take a fishing trip, as well.   Hopefully, we can cripple the Colorado economy.  The only way to deal with an anti-gunner politician is to break down everything around them.

ST762

So we punish like minded folks ? like cutting your nose off to spite your face  The politicans might see the loss of hunting camps and assoicated industry as a victory. 
 I hope the boycott works but it could backfire .

[Dee]

Hunters SHOULD boycott Colorado, to wake up voters. HOWEVER! Come hunting season, they'll show up in droves. As always.

[SHOOTALL]

by now plans are paid and entry fees are paid for drawings etc.

[Dee]

YEP! And MOST out of state hunters see it as "Colorado's problem".

[Doublebass73]

Boycotting Colorado hits the liberals in charge of that state in the form of less tax revenue. That's the only thing liberals understand. Restrictive gun laws equals less money for them to spend. The only way to get those laws changed back is to hit them in the pocketbook.

[Dee]

I agree, but here in Texas, come Colorado deer season, and elk season, it is a mass exodus, and a constant stream of 4x4s pullin trailers to spend millions in Colorado to hunt deer and elk. Yet, most Colorado residents, despise Texans. But the Texans go anyway, and the Coloradans take their money. This Colorado gun ban issue will not slow them down one bit.

[tobster]

I think hunters boycotting Colorado might be throwing the anti gun crowd into the proverbial briar patch.

[SHOOTALL]

I agree, but here in Texas, come Colorado deer season, and elk season, it is a mass exodus, and a constant stream of 4x4s pullin trailers to spend millions in Colorado to hunt deer and elk. Yet, most Colorado residents, despise Texans. But the Texans go anyway, and the Coloradans take their money. This Colorado gun ban issue will not slow them down one bit.

I see the same thing in Canada by some up there.

[mardrobe]

It is a statement, but will have little effect.  The better hunting areas can take years to draw a tag and have many more applicants than available tags.  There will be plenty of hunters waiting to take the spots of those who boycott.

[Redtail1949]

I live and hunted in Colorado for over 30 years and I am all for it. I have watched as the CDOW has rasied the tag prices and licence fees year after year . this has priced most of the local hunters out. they made law after law new regulation after another makibg it where you hyad to be a lawyer just to fill out your applications. Every year after moving here I invited my long time friends and family up for a hunt and they ended up pricing them out as well.
It has become nothing more than a money machine for the State with little careing by them the efeect it has had on the true Sportsman that are just average guys and gals. Not rich people with  deep pckets that they want to buy tags.
Thsi gun legislation and the prices and regulations were pushed by the anti hunter and their ilk to stop the hunting the only way they could by getting laws and complicated regs.  This has resulted in many average joes loseing their camp cars and guns for the slightest infractions. Now these anti gun Democrats pass the laws they always wanted and this is just the begining.
I hope every out of Stae as well as every in State hunter and Outdoorsman ask for a refund on any applications they have made. I hope they cancell any trips they have planned to come to Colorado. This will bring the thousands of stores ande outdoor equipment dealers to their knees. I hope that it does happen.
 

[hillbill]

I live and hunted in Colorado for over 30 years and I am all for it. I have watched as the CDOW has rasied the tag prices and licence fees year after year . this has priced most of the local hunters out. they made law after law new regulation after another makibg it where you hyad to be a lawyer just to fill out your applications. Every year after moving here I invited my long time friends and family up for a hunt and they ended up pricing them out as well.
It has become nothing more than a money machine for the State with little careing by them the efeect it has had on the true Sportsman that are just average guys and gals. Not rich people with  deep pckets that they want to buy tags.
Thsi gun legislation and the prices and regulations were pushed by the anti hunter and their ilk to stop the hunting the only way they could by getting laws and complicated regs.  This has resulted in many average joes loseing their camp cars and guns for the slightest infractions. Now these anti gun Democrats pass the laws they always wanted and this is just the begining.
I hope every out of Stae as well as every in State hunter and Outdoorsman ask for a refund on any applications they have made. I hope they cancell any trips they have planned to come to Colorado. This will bring the thousands of stores ande outdoor equipment dealers to their knees. I hope that it does happen.

well thats straight from the horses mouth aint it? colorado is supported by tourism to a certain degree.without hunters how would they fare? jus curious?

[Oldshooter]

I think hunters boycotting Colorado might be throwing the anti gun crowd into the proverbial briar patch.

Exactly!
 
The New California folks don't like hunting, don't want you there and could care less if no one comes.  The anti gunners surely don't want you there. The outfitters, landowners and business people that depend on hunters for their livelihood will definitely suffer.
 
Mind you, I don't oppose the boycott, but I'm not sure that it will work, or even come to fruition, as others have said. Did ya notice the liberal Democrat  that lurks here thinks its a good idea.

[Ranger99]

won't happen.
around here, as was already posted, folks
will be leaving in droves this fall to get
the big bragging rights animal. these
same folks won't write letters, make phone
calls, send e-mails, or join the nra.
same kind of folks that panic-buy, bad-mouthed
ar's until they got trendy, buy a new cutting-edge
firearm every year to pop a whitetail at 100 yards,
and ridicule me for not trophy hunting.


the ski folks sure won't help.