The Case Against Hunter Recruitment

[Aginor]

MeatEater Founder Steven Rinella Addresses R3 Op-Ed

I recently caused quite a stir among our audience with an op-ed published to our website. The piece, titled “The Case Against Hunter Recruitment,” was written by my brother Matt Rinella. It focuses on Matt’s distrust with what is known in the hunting industry as R3. While it sounds like a droid...

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Steve’s response. Doesn’t do much to address Matt’s article other than talking about recruiting women and minorities. Aside from that, it just sounds like he’s countering the people who think his opinion is the same as his brother’s


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[ODB]

MeatEater Founder Steven Rinella Addresses R3 Op-Ed

I recently caused quite a stir among our audience with an op-ed published to our website. The piece, titled “The Case Against Hunter Recruitment,” was written by my brother Matt Rinella. It focuses on Matt’s distrust with what is known in the hunting industry as R3. While it sounds like a droid...

www.themeateater.com

Steve’s response. Doesn’t do much to address Matt’s article other than talking about recruiting women and minorities. Aside from that, it just sounds like he’s countering the people who think his opinion is the same as his brother’s


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This is turning out to be a good idea that wasn’t.

 

[elkyinzer]

Man people can disagree and still be civil and intelligent. Imagine if the world went back to working that way.

 

[idelkslayer]

I tend to agree with Matt's article.

I think R3 efforts need to be tailored to fit the needs of specific areas. The western states don't need any more hunters unless we want to have hunters that don't have tags to go hunting with. Eventually this is going to happen with increased numbers of resident hunters. R3 efforts in the west should focus more on increasing herd numbers and preserving winter range. R3 only makes sense if we are making the pie bigger too. In eastern states R3 should likewise focus on reducing the culture of land leases and allowing more hunters onto private land instead of focusing on growing trophy deer.

We've been told for years that the number 1 reason why people quit hunting is loss of access. So R3 is only helpful if we increase land access. Where are all of these hunters going to hunt if we don't open up landlocked public ground and stop leasing up private land?