Dear Cabela’s Customer:

Occasionally, an issue of such importance arises we feel it necessary to contact our loyal customers. With our fishing rights at stake, this is such an issue.

On August 23, 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was petitioned by the Center for Biological Diversity and others to ban lead from ammunition and fishing tackle, including sinkers, jigs, weighted fly lines and components containing lead, such as brass and ballast in lures, spinners, stick baits and other fishing products.

On August 27, the EPA denied the petition regarding ammunition, but let stand the petition to ban lead in fishing tackle and has opened a short period for taking public comment.

Such a ban would cause prices of fishing products to skyrocket. Alternative metals can cost from six to 15 times more than lead, and most do not perform as well. For many, fishing would no longer be the affordable sport it is now.

Please join Cabela’s and Keep America Fishing in opposing this ban by submitting your comments to the EPA no later than September 15, 2010. You can easily do so by clicking here:

http://capwiz.com/keepamericafishing/issues/alert/?alertid=16355526&cmCat=email&cm_cat=6089&cm_ven=email-nl&cm_pla=HA-0100&cm_ite=16355526&eid=10013390&cmp=I100902A&seg=FF1&cnt=6089&ctb=16355526

It is a fast and easy way to assure your opinion is heard.

Cabela’s is working in conjunction with the American Sportfishing Association and Keep America Fishing to protect our tradition and heritage of fishing.

Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

Cabela’s

We are urging everyone who reads this to please take action and to tell everyone you know to also take action. Our rights are in serious threat right now and we must stand up against the anti’s and take action and let our voices be heard.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services have stated that the grizzlies have surpassed their recovery goals but anti-hunting groups are fighting to keep grizzlies on the endangered species list.

The current grizzly population in Yellowstone is at 600. Many biologist believe that the grizzly population is oversaturated. The target recovery goal was 400-500 bears.

We will call on Congress to:
1. Immediately and permanently delist wolves in America.
2. Place a stop on further wolf reintroductions.

We will call on the Western States to:
1. Immediately reduce wolf numbers to the levels that were originally agreed upon in reintroduction areas.
2. Manage wolves in states that were never supposed to have wolves reintroduced into them and address the serious threat and disappearance of our big game animals.

Click on the link below.

http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/category/take-action

We will call on Congress to:
1. Immediately and permanently delist wolves in America.
2. Place a stop on further wolf reintroductions.

We will call on the Western States to:
1. Immediately reduce wolf numbers to the levels that were originally agreed upon in reintroduction areas.
2. Manage wolves in states that were never supposed to have wolves reintroduced into them and address the serious threat and disappearance of our big game animals.

We will also post urgent news on here regarding our hunting rights whether it`s coming direct from Washington or from your home state that may require you to take immediate action.

If you have something important and urgent regarding our hunting rights that you`d like to post on here, email us with detailed information and we`ll post it for you on this page.

We urge you to copy and paste these letters and mail them along with your own opinions. The more opinions they receive the more we’ll be heard.

You can now follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/HuntAgainstPETA, we’ll post updates on there as well when they come.

We are also on FaceBook now at http://www.facebook.com/HuntersAgainstPETA.

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Assembly Bill 1810, sponsored by Assemblyman Mike Feuer (D- LA), would require the state to keep registration information for all firearm transfers, including from transfers of commonly used hunting rifles and shotguns.

Current California law requires the state to keep a database containing information acquired from handgun transfers only.  The information kept by the state includes the owner’s name and address as well as a description and serial number of the handgun.  Under AB 1810, this same information would be kept for all firearms transfers.

“It’s bad enough that the state keeps personal information from handgun transfers,” said Jeremy Rine, U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance associate director of state services.  “There is no compelling reason for Californians’ Second Amendment rights being further infringed through this legislation.”

Earlier this year, AB 1810 passed the California Assembly and, on August 12, the bill passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee.  The bill could now be voted on by the full Senate at any time.

Take Action! California sportsmen should immediately contact their state senators and urge them to oppose AB 1810.  Tell them there is no justification for expanding the state’s registry to include all firearms transfers by law abiding gun owners.”

To find your state senator’s contact information, please visit www.ussportsmen.org/LAC.

For more information, contact the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance at 614-888-4868 or email info@ussportsmen.org

U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance
801 Kingsmill Parkway
Columbus, Ohio 43229
614-888-4868
www.ussportsmen.org
info@ussportsmen.org

Please support our brothers at the USSA in this fight by clicking on the links and taking action.

Hunters Against PETA

“The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is seeking public comments on a proposal to reduce the wolf population in part of the Clearwater drainage.

The proposal calls for reducing the population of wolves in two big game management units that make up the Lolo elk management zone to address unacceptable impacts of wolf predation.

Once public comments have been reviewed, the proposal will be submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approval.”

http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/apps/surveys/10tenj/

Please click on the link and give your opinions, suggestions and comments to the Idaho Fish and Game.

http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/opinions/polls/poll_26675fb2-a304-11df-8787-001cc4c03286.html

PETA slammed Kristy on their blog stating that, “It sounds like she must have had those tired old defenses of hunting hammered into her as a kid, because she isn’t embarrassed to float the incredibly old saw that hunters somehow help animals…”

Rather than cowering down like some celebrities do when an animal rights group attacks them Kristy being the strong, cool headed sportsmen she is let PETA have it by saying this, “I join the ranks of millions of American hunters who celebrate our heritage and who conserve millions of acres of wild lands,” Cook said.  “These same people support more than 600,000 jobs across the country and provide a critical voice to encourage more investment in American conservation.”

We applaud you Kristy for standing up in what you believe in and not backing down.

]]> http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/kristy-lee-cook-a-contestant-on-american-idol-fires-back-at-peta/feed 0 http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/its-almost-hunting-season http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/its-almost-hunting-season#comments Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:00:20 +0000 admin http://www.huntersagainstpeta.com/?p=514 It’s been awhile since we’ve updated our newsletter. There’s a lot of subjects that we could cover that would probably take up to 10 pages or more. We’re going to try and stick to the hottest topics and the most pressing issues and what we’re doing about them.

If you’re a hunter than obviously you’ve heard from someone or read on our site the serious threat wolves are to our big game animals here in the west. I’m sure you’ve also heard that wolves were put back on the Endangered Species List on August 5th. This is a setback in our fight to protect our big game animals from getting wiped out by the Canadian Gray Wolf.

The timing couldn’t have been more perfect though. It wasn’t two days after we met with Secretary Salazar that the wolves were put back on the ESL. This way we know Secretary Salazar will not forget us or the questions we asked him. We continually send Secretary Salazar emails regarding this problem as well as many other problems that threaten our hunting rights.

Another problem that has been an issue lately is the ban on lead ammo. Some sportsmen might think that this is not a big deal or some sportsmen may actually agree with the ban. However the ban on lead ammo has nothing to do with the lead ammo itself, it has everything to do with putting tighter restrictions on our hunting rights. If we allow anti-hunting organizations to gain an inch here and there and we allow them to dictate to us how and when we can hunt, someday they’ll have complete control over our hunting rights and that’s a scary proposition to think about.

Make no mistake, the anti-hunting organizations are very clever and are not to be underestimated. Just like us sportsmen the anti’s have every kind of person working in their favor from politicians, lawyers, doctors, to scientists and they use millions of dollars and thousands of man hours to try and put a stop on hunting.

Our goal is not to bring doom and gloom and we fully believe in trying to be a positive influence for sportsmen. However we know the anti’s will never pull punches and will never stop fighting us so we must do the same.

Please do what you can by sending your opinions and ideas to Secretary Salazar, local politicians, and your local and federal Wildlife Resources.

The more opinions they hear make it harder for them to ignore us.

Please take care this hunting season and we wish everyone the best of success!

By MATT VOLZ , Associated Press

Last update: August 5, 2010 – 5:01 PM