Co -Editors Note

[mhay]

#7164

Just picked up the latest issue of TBM. My first stop was Mr. Don’s

co-editors note . Can’t imagine anyone saying it better and I couldn’t agree more .

Excellent Magazine

[wahoo]

#59254

I have not read that yet but would like to add that I just read DT it’s all about money from the June mag and would also like to add that he is spot on and would like to thank him for all he writes. Thumbs up

[James Harvey]

#60182

I’ve just finished an Army Adventurous Training (AT) leadership course and the lead instructor on the course was a 60 year old fella who’s been running AT for a couple of decades now. He told me a lot of his peers (old soldiers) say things like ‘they don’t make soldiers like they used to’. He reckons that’s true, we’ve all grow up in suburbs not farms and we all while away our youth on couches with xbox controls in their hands, not digging in fence posts and throwing hay bales (I spent a fair smack of time with a nintendo control in mine).

But he said all they need to meet the old standard is a little exposure to hardship (beyond normal Army training) and leadership from hard men. That’s why he loves AT and what it can do for young soldiers.

I reckon TBM is another rare example of that kind of exposure and leadership. We all know it and love it for that very example it sets. I hope with all my heart that every now and then a young man or woman whose parents can’t provide that kind of leadership picks up a copy of TBM and gets some of that exposure.

As Don said in his op-ed, substance over style, actions over appearance, these are dwindling values. Thank goodness TBM and it’s contributors still show people what it means.

Jim

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#60258

Well said, Jim.

An thank you Don for being willing to be honest and tell it like it is. There often seems to be a direct relationship between pursuits that have come to be dominated by an overabundance of marketing-hype, and the aversion to such honesty. 😉

[David Petersen]

#61461

Yep. In recent years the editorials from Don, and TJ too, have really been hitting some important nails smack on the head, even when they’re controversial, which makes the hammering all the more important. They also allow other contributors to speak their minds, largely or wholly uncensored in the magazine, which is unheard of in the commercial outdoor media otherwise. If a few readers or even advertisers take umbrage at hearing the hard truth, so be it. And while he’s a relatively rare contributor to the magazine(too much so, as he’s a good writer), Larry sits on the national board of BHA, even as the magazine has been a long-time major supporter of that one best hope for hunting’s future. And then there’s our beloved web Mom, Robin, who brings those same high standards and open mind to this unique forum. For these reasons and more, TBM has my highest respect and is in a class by itself–even as it reflects very well on the entire trad bowhunting community in contrast to the rest of the hunting world, advertisers as well as readers, who continue to support the fact that democracy and personal dignity, in hunting as elsewhere, require accountability. Keep it up, friends.

[Steve Capps]

#61514

And the picture in the ad on the facing page is priceless:D

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