Are we just too polite about our field sports in this country? Is our british attribute of not making a fuss playing unto the hands of the animal rights nutcases? Ted Nugent would certainly think so.
Ted is a rarity, he is a wild rock star, he is a hunter, and he is an avowed family man who love the USA. He serves as a director on America's National Rifle Association, and he is an author as well. In his book 'Ted Nugents' Manifesto you can read a list of the type of work he gets involved in, it exhausting just reading it.
In the end though after reading a couple of his books and watching interviews with him what impresses me most is his passion for all things field craft, whether its endlessly practicing with bow and rifle in order to make sure he can kill his game quickly, or the many programs he is involved with to teach children the safe way of operating firearms.
His defense of guns, hunting, and the USA is strong, forthright, and uncompromising, Reading him has the same effect as a good sermon, it causes me to look at myself and ask 'what I am doing to protect my sport. After the hunting ban, when Labour gave in to the Animal Rights lobby, I went into the doldrums, canceled my subscription to the countryside alliance, which I thought had been too willing to offer up all other forms of hunting to preserve fox hunting, since the ban though they seem to have got their act together much better, and are the only body with enough clout to lobby MP's especially when so many who enjoy field sports do not stick their head above the parapet and I most certainly include myself in that one.
Ted inspires one to get out and be as active and the screwballs with bambi complex, his view is if you have not annoyed someone by the time you are 21 you have not been trying hard enough and better get on with it.
Some quotes from Ted:
“The United Nations is anti-freedom and is as useless as teats on a boar hog. It is the largest gang of worthless humanity the world has ever witnessed”
“Punks used to laugh at me, said how can you rock and roll and not get high? Well I just stood my ground. And I watched those assholes fall and die. Cuz I just wanna go hunting. It makes me feel so good. I just gotta go hunting, try and find me in the wood.”
“Those opposed to intelligent design can be easily identified by their hyper-scramble to avoid anything intelligent.”
Well that's a flavour of Ted, I find him thought provoking and edgy and slightly manic and a bit like P J O'Rourke, funny but to be taken with a pinch of salt.
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