Tom — I attended the WI annual event/banquet a few years ago and really enjoyed the good folks there; big crowd. I especially appreciate their staunch stance against baiting deer. And nowhere, even here in the West, have I met a more elk-hungry tribe of hunters. They kept me up way past midnight talking about it, plying me with “refreshments” to keep me awake. 😉
So far as “supporting traditional bowhunting” — it’s amazing how different folks interpret that. For me, the best way to support, protect and assure democratic hunting opportunity in America is to do all we can to assure that we’ll always have an abundance of unspoiled, quiet, natural public wildlife and hunter habitat. So I’m a life member of Backcountry Hunters @ Anglers … not a trad bowhunting group per se, but a national coalition of “traditional values” sportsmen and women of all weapons choice. But I’ll bet if a poll were taken, trad bowhunters are a majority. Check ’em out at http://www.backcountryhunters.org
