Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
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03/04/19 03:54 PM
03/04/19 03:54 PM
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Posts: 870 Punxsutawney, Pa.
MinkGuy
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Our rights are being taken slowly. Our way of life is being threatened. Our states and their trapping rights are being stripped one by one. PETA has listed that in 2018 they received $54,285,044 and they claim 6.5 million members and supporters. They are campaigning at laboratories, the food industry, clothing trade and entertainment. They are fighting against the killing of rodents and pests. They don't want companion pets to be on a leash or locked up in a home. They want cattle and livestock to be required to be in out of the elements. They don't want us to eat meat or wear leather or fur garments. Zoos are considered targets as well as hunting and trapping. They work against us in education, investigations, legislation, and attack our events, with celebrity involvement and protests campaigns. Still we let them run all over us. We have many trappers who don't belong to their state and national organizations. We have trappers who post tasteless pictures, we have trappers who find fault with our state and national organizations, fur auctions and each other. Wake up your neighbor and ask yourself if you can do better? I will ask you to support both the NTA and FTA, join and participate in your state association. Don't tell me this is wrong or you are mad about this and that. Get with the program and stand up and fight. It is time to show a united front with each organization coming together from Pet owners, livestock associations, ducks unlimited, Elk foundations, NWTF and every other group including Fur Ranchers and Garment Makers. An attack on Canada Goose is an attack on us. Tell me why I am wrong and why you don't participate or why you don't belong. I will tell you that if you aren't a part of the solution then you truly are a part of the problem!
Last edited by MinkGuy; 05/03/19 01:31 AM.
DonP Minktrapping.com
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:00 PM
03/04/19 04:00 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 870 Punxsutawney, Pa.
MinkGuy
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Do you care? Do you belong? Will you join us as a member in one of our state and national organizations. I'd love to hear that you are a member or weren't a member but you are going to join up. So many say, I was but what were they doing for me, or my membership must have expired. Please check and make sure you are current then join the fight! We need each person.
DonP Minktrapping.com
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:08 PM
03/04/19 04:08 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 7,240 West Michigan
Getting There
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You will get no fight from me. You are 100% right! You can add your gun rights in there also.
To Old U.S. Army 60-63 SGT.
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:19 PM
03/04/19 04:19 PM
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Joined: Sep 2010
Posts: 6,599 NC, Orange Co.
QuietButDeadly
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Our rights are being taken slowly. Our way of life is being threatened. Our states and their trapping rights are being stripped one by one. PETA has listed that in 2018 they received $54,285,044 and they claim 6.5 million members and supporters. They are campaigning at laboratories, the food industry, clothing trade and entertainment. They are fighting against the killing of rodents and pests. They don't want companion pets to be on a leash or locked up in a home. They want cattle and livestock to be required to be in out of the elements. They don't want us to eat meat or wear leather or fur garments. Zoos are considered targets as well as hunting and trapping. They work against us in education, investigations, legislation, and attack our events, with celebrity involvement and protests campaigns. Still we let them run all over us. We have many trappers who don't belong to their state and national organizations. We have trappers who post tasteless pictures, we have trappers who find fault with our state and national organizations, fur auctions and each other. Wake up your neighbor and ask yourself if you can do better? I will ask you to support both the NTA and FTA, join and participate in your state association. Don't tell me this is wrong or you are mad about this and that. Get with the program and stand up and fight. It is time to show a united front with each organization coming together from Pet owners, livestock associations, ducks unlimited, Elk foundations, NWTF and every other group including Fur Ranchers and Garment Makers. An attack on Canada Goose is an attack on us. Tell me why I am wrong and why you don't participate or why you don't belong. I will tell you that if you aren't a part of the solution then you truly are a part of the problem! Amen Brother, preach on! I drove over 300 miles and spent over 30 hours at the Dixie Deer Classic representing the NC Trappers Association this past weekend all on my dime. I consider it time well spent but like you, it really chaps my backside that over 85% of the licensed trappers in this country will not get up off of enough money to join even their state associations much less the national ones. And I will add another organization that we need to support to your list. Sportsmen's Alliance is on the front line in the battles against the antis across the country as well.
Life Member: NCTA, VTA, NTA, TTFHA, MFTI Member: FTA NRA NWTF
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:32 PM
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Marty
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Plenty of stupid folks support them just like they support cotex as she wants elimination of all fossil fuels and drives away in a minivan yet the subway is a block away. Stupid is here to stay and we need to stay strong and support our organizations.
E 'Honey Badger Militia' Sleep, the anti woke adote.
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:44 PM
03/04/19 04:44 PM
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Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 870 Punxsutawney, Pa.
MinkGuy
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Reply - we need to do more. I need to join the sportsman alliance. We each need to recruit new members and take them to a meeting or event. This is our BATTLE CRY! NOW is the time. Post on here what more you are doing! If I as a life member of the NTA, FTA and PTA say that is good enough -- It just isn't! I need to do more. We each need to do more! It doesn't have to be financially it can be helping out at an event or getting a new member or exposing the ridiculous intentions of "THEY" THEY want to tell us how to live, what to eat, if we can have a pet, if our city can have a zoo.. and so on. I love Bacon and nobody is going to take that away from me without a fight. I love using footholds and bodygrippers. Don't try to take that or my right to use a gun either. I shouldn't have to pay extra taxes on bullets and guns! I buy licenses which support conservation and THEY do not. THEY have me so hot right now! Let's UNITE with the livestock associations, the coon hunters, duck and pheasant, grouse and elk, trout and everyone else that believes the way we do. Individual states can't stop these guys alone.
DonP Minktrapping.com
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: SNIPERBBB]
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03/04/19 04:55 PM
03/04/19 04:55 PM
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racerboy108
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Remember, the antis aren't better organized...just better funded. Sorry Sniper but I have to disagree as the antis are better at getting their message out.
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 04:56 PM
03/04/19 04:56 PM
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Posts: 1,567 SE Minnesota
dustytinner
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I am with you! Many say they cant afford it,You CAN'T not afford it! $2.50 A MONTH everyone can afford. That's less than a bottle of pop and bag of chips. We don't have to agree with everything these organizations do except the fact they fight every single day for US trappers
Life member Minnesota Trappers Association FTA,Sportsmen's Alliance
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: racerboy108]
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03/04/19 05:10 PM
03/04/19 05:10 PM
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Posts: 715 Michigan
BigBlackBirds
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Remember, the antis aren't better organized...just better funded. Sorry Sniper but I have to disagree as the antis are better at getting their message out. yep, they have the social media part down pat.
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 05:12 PM
03/04/19 05:12 PM
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Posts: 691 Saltlake city utah
Steelflight
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Well this is the facts these people do nothing but sit and stew it seems. Despite there creeds and oaths it is only about control. I stand by the thoughts spoken but I will ask what more ca be done?. Im a new guy but here are my thoughts.
If you support your association then your also supporting the NTA. If you want to support your local association then stop sending fur to groenwold and NAFA. send it only through your local association so they get a good surplus of commission for funds. Then I would also encourage trappers to Wright about their seasons and the adventures they had for atleast no other reason then to leave behind the stories to your posterity.
Go easy on me.
You may think before you act. The question is did you listen to your own council?
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 05:19 PM
03/04/19 05:19 PM
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 463 Upstate NY
David Morse
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I think if we all put links in our signature line to join the association with a few computer clicks it would grow memberships. I did it just the other day with the fur takers of America.
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Re: Beat me up- go ahead I'm ready for a fight
[Re: MinkGuy]
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03/04/19 05:23 PM
03/04/19 05:23 PM
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Posts: 463 Upstate NY
David Morse
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Last edited by David Morse; 03/04/19 05:47 PM.
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