To me the point is that while there certainly IS or CAN BE danger involved, it is not the guaranteed physical contact that goes along with a career or even hobby of bronc riding or general stock work and the general garden run "happy hour" cocktail sucker knows it, and when some silk suit globe trotter tries to send the balloon up every time he talks about his last hunt he looks like a buffoon and makes hunters in-general look silly, too.

Though some hunters certainly have been maimed and killed by dangerous game, such incidents are really rare, and when hunters try to convince the non-hunting crowd that they walk the knife edge every time they hunt they are really pushing it.

In my opinion, hunters frequently overblow the dangers involved in order to make themselves seem like heroes. A bit of understatement might go farther in getting the point across to the non-hunting crowd, or better yet, a good humor education provided about the value of even "dangerous game" hunting.

Remember, MANY faux leopard hatband photo safari types get charged every year, too, and though there are cases of injury and even death, they too are rare. Some are backed up by "high powered rifles", but some are not.

I apologize for what may seem as an unimpressed attitude. Maybe my perspective is skewed by where I live. Here in logging country injuries from minor to very serious indeed are simply the way of life. Every year men suffer catastrophic injuries and nearly each year, sometimes more than once, we lose a man we all know to the woods; a tree, a machine, a mistake.