Mike Leach nabs a bear

[BuckHunter23]

Guess Mike Leach is a hunter!  At least that's one thing I can like about him.  Apparently Jim Moore, The Go To Guy and avid Coug fan, is not a fan of hunting.  Here is his blog post and thoughts about Leach and his bear. 

http://jimmoorethego2guy.com/2012/05/it-bothers-me-that-mike-leach-shot-a-bear/

[Huntbear]

Well at least you Coug fans will have one thing to cheer about this year...   

[BuckHunter23]

Well at least you Coug fans will have one thing to cheer about this year...   

   Maybe you Coug fans could straighten out your beat writer!

[huntnphool]

Well at least you Coug fans will have one thing to cheer about this year...   

You dawg fans better get your chuckles in while you still can.

[Huntbear]

Never said I was a Dawg fan.....  lol...  I am actually more of a Boise St. fan, than either of the big 2 in this state.. 

[huntnphool]

I think the Cougs are the first ESPN game this year, even they are expecting big things from Mike Leach.

It will take a few years but he is the kind of guy that can get a program back into contention.

[CP]

There are a lot of stupid anti-hunting comments to this guy’s anti-hunting rant.

[Ripper]

I pulled Jim's man card! I am not a big fan of the coug's but I'm now a fan of Mike Leach.

[hunterrcc]

Mike Leach is the man!!! i like him more and more each time I hear more about the man!  GO COUGS

[Bob33]

What does the "go to guy" think that cougars eat - peas and carrots?

Maybe he can start a campaign to get them renamed...to something more civilized.

Ignorance on display.

[Bigluke1981]

Mike Leach is the man!!! i like him more and more each time I hear more about the man!  GO COUGS

[CoyoteCowboy]

mike leach is a bad a$$. period.

what i would given to have been on that hunt and listened to his commentary. i read his book: Swing your Sword and loved every minute of it. excited to see what he does w/ the fb program at WSU. go cougs!

[pianoman9701]

My reply to the blog:

"Your comments speak of a great love for wildlife and I appreciate that, as I love wildlife, too. You should understand some things about hunting and conservation that you clearly don’t now.

Legal hunting is one of the most important aspects of wildlife conservation. Wildlife departments use hunters to remove surplus animals to maintain the proper carrying capacity of a given habitat. Carrying capacity is the number of animals that a given habitat can hold throughout the year without experiencing degradation. Without hunters as a tool to achieve this, this animals would still be killed, but by disease, starvation, and competition with each other. Hunting is a far more reliable tool and works to fund the agency which cares for the wildlife.

In addition, in the US, hunters donate billions of dollars just for habitat restoration and conservation, and millions of hours of volunteer work in those areas. No other group comes even close. And groups like the Humane Society of the US (which spends less than 1% of it’s money on animal shelters), and the Defenders of Wildlife spend no money at all on the conservation of wildlife – none. Without hunters and their organizations, more than 90% of the money now spent on conservation would not exist. This is an important fact if you really care about wildlife.

I understand you’re not a hunter. But, you need to understand that hunters are an essential and humane tool for conservation like no other. And, when an ethical hunter takes a trophy, he also takes the meat and pelt and uses whatever else he can of that animal."

[shanevg]

I posted a comment as well. I see this is a great opportunity to educate people who have it stick in their head that trophy hunting = unethical. It's like they think you don't keep the meat of a trophy animal...  I would strongly encourage people to post level headed, non-incindiary comments in response to Jim's post and also text/call in to his show this afternoon and give him a piece of your mind. You can text them for free at 710-710.

[pianoman9701]

I posted a comment as well. I see this is a great opportunity to educate people who have it stick in their head that trophy hunting = unethical. It's like they think you don't keep the meat of a trophy animal...  I would strongly encourage people to post level headed, non-incindiary comments in response to Jim's post and also text/call in to his show this afternoon and give him a piece of your mind. You can text them for free at 710-710.

This idiot has a show? Oh god.

[shanevg]

He's the 3-6pm show on 710 ESPN Seattle.

[shanevg]

He's on the air now. Why don't we all give him a piece of our minds via text?

710710 gets to him.

[shootnrun]

Go Cougs! 

[Jake T]

i think i'm going to kill 2 bears this year.  i'll kill one for me, and then i'm going to go get my second tag, put on the boot miles and kill another one...and dedicate it to the Go 2 Guy.   

[huntnphool]

Let's hope Mike gets another one this year with a win over Cal.

[trophyhunt]

Those tweets are full of anti idiots, what a bunch of dicks.