BuzzH
Well-known member
Pretty sad when Wyoming sells 13,000 elk tags to NR's and 2100 hunters nationwide contribute to a cause with the potential to open up 8.3 million acres.
Anti hunting group buys hunting rights
- Thread starter Bigjay73
- Start date
FI460
Well-known member
I'm well aware of corner crossing. So $150k opens up 8 million acres?
Did you forget about this?
Donate to Corner Crossing Legal Fee Fundraiser, organized by Wyoming BHA
This hunting season four hunters, Brad Cape, Phillip Yoemans, John Slowensky and Zac… Wyoming BHA needs your support for Corner Crossing Legal Fee Fundraiserwww.gofundme.com
Looks like there's at least 2,100 of us hunters who care about corner crossing.
Isn't 2100 people like 10% of the nonresident elk tags sold in just Montana?
Those are rookie numbers.
Edit: Buzz beat me to it.
rjthehunter
Well-known member
I fish in several tournaments every summer that are fundraisers. It's for a good cause, but there's also an opportunity to win some $. It's a win win for all parties involved!
Not a tax write off though with the opportunity to win money.
BuzzH
Well-known member
IIRC, at least 17,500 NR elk tags issued in Montana.
rjthehunter
Well-known member
Have you tried a fundraiser?
Is there an article or anything showing that you're looking for $150k? Do you have a gofundme set up, or a site set up to accept donations? Where do people donate? How do you expect people to donate if no one knows you need $150k??
Is there an article or anything showing that you're looking for $150k? Do you have a gofundme set up, or a site set up to accept donations? Where do people donate? How do you expect people to donate if no one knows you need $150k??
BigHornRam
Well-known member
We lose? The orgs I'm involved with are doing good work. Sounds like your orgs are having trouble raising money.
BuzzH
Well-known member
So when you booking a hunt where the hunting rights were bought out in B.C.?
Funny what you consider a "win"...
How much money did your orgs donate to stop the trapping ban in NM? How about spring bear in WA?
Is that "more winning"?
T
tjones
Guest
What percentage of that .org money ends up on the ground? What percentage stays local?
bayoublaster7527
Well-known member
- Joined
- Aug 2, 2017
- Messages
- 475
I would like to interrupt this wonderful discussion about fundraising for hunting organizations to remind folks that Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Conservation could use your support. Hunting in Colorado is in a perilous situation with at least two anti-hunting ballot initiatives pending. CRWM is on the front lines of this fight, no organization does more to preserve our hunting traditions in Colorado. If you are a Colorado hunter or care about the future of hunting in the west, please consider a donation.
savethehuntcolorado.com
Carry on.
Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management
We focus on the public’s interests for maintaining a century-old track record of our natural resources, including wildlife, habitat, and farms and ranches.
savethehuntcolorado.com
Carry on.
Pretty good general breakdown.
www.rmef.org
Hunting IS Conservation - Paid for by Hunters
Habitat, research and wildlife law enforcement work are all paid for by hunters. It helps hunted species, as well as countless non-hunted species. All-together, hunters pay more than $1.6 billion a year for conservation programs. No one gives more than hunters! Every single day U.S. sportsmen...
www.rmef.org
Bigjay73
Well-known member
This should be bumped every week, maybe even have it's own thread.I would like to interrupt this wonderful discussion about fundraising for hunting organizations to remind folks that Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Conservation could use your support. Hunting in Colorado is in a perilous situation with at least two anti-hunting ballot initiatives pending. CRWM is on the front lines of this fight, no organization does more to preserve our hunting traditions in Colorado. If you are a Colorado hunter or care about the future of hunting in the west, please consider a donation.
Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management
We focus on the public’s interests for maintaining a century-old track record of our natural resources, including wildlife, habitat, and farms and ranches.
Carry on.
Last edited:
rjthehunter
Well-known member
@BuzzH You've dodged my question multiple times. Post up a link or something where you're trying to raise $150k. How are hunters supposed to support a cause if you don't provide any way for them to support it???I would like to interrupt this wonderful discussion about fundraising for hunting organizations to remind folks that Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Conservation could use your support. Hunting in Colorado is in a perilous situation with at least two anti-hunting ballot initiatives pending. CRWM is on the front lines of this fight, no organization does more to preserve our hunting traditions in Colorado. If you are a Colorado hunter or care about the future of hunting in the west, please consider a donation.
Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management
We focus on the public’s interests for maintaining a century-old track record of our natural resources, including wildlife, habitat, and farms and ranches.
Carry on.
Complaining doesn't help anything. I figured you'd know that by now.
bayoublaster knows what's up. He shares a link you can click on and donate at.
D
Deleted member 28227
Guest
Maybe they have... but I've never heard of bass pro contributing to anything as far as conservation or access, and they are significantly larger than Patagonia. Love em or hate'em but Patagonia puts their money where there mouth is often, hunting corps... not so much if ever.
The Johnny Morris foundation gives a lot of $ for a variety of issues.Cabelas & Bass Pro are usually generous with donations to small orgs and large, and they collect $ at the register for a select group of orgs (round up your purchase, type thing).
They just don't have as nice of a pr machine as Yvon.
WesternRookie
Active member
- Joined
- Apr 8, 2019
- Messages
- 179
Hopefully they do plenty of hiking and have run ins with the warm cuddly grizzly families they think are their friends.I personally think this is bullshit, but they played by the rules and won
Conservation group buys out hunting rights in B.C. rainforest to protect wildlife - BC | Globalnews.ca
Raincoast says in a statement the purchase makes the environmental group the largest hunting tenure holder in B.C., with six tenures covering more than 56,000 square kilometres.globalnews.ca
nobody does. the PR machine of the anti hunting campaign is just a bunch of intangible feel good; the goals of which are just wispy ideas that nobody understands and just float in the ether.
it can't be matched, unless we stoop. the average hunter is an insanely gullible person, it should be much easier to trick them into spending money on conservation
my ideas:
- more women in bikinis at DU and RMEF events
- convince them the mutualists goals are simply to raise license fees
- we need a sweeping campaign painting the mutualists as gun grabbers and socialists
- the mutualists took their jobs
- they are trying to ban hamburgers
SAJ-99
Well-known member
My view of donations is quickly getting right up there with my disdain for tipping. Between Non-profit orgs doing banquets, politicians asking for $20, one-offs like a gofundme, and homeless asking for change I am just burned out. Maybe it is the time of year?
From USA facts
From USA facts
rjthehunter
Well-known member
No matter where you go they're asking for donations...
I swing by taco bell occasionally for lunch. Every single time they ask if I want to round up and donate to the taco bell scholarship... No... Donate the money you're making off of myself and everyone to fund your own scholarship.
I don't see 55 year old duck hunter in speedo.
That's worth at least $2.47.
Patagonia spreads their money around and they fund a ton of hunting groups. Most of the major donors work like this - spread the funding & cast a wide net: Wyss, Wilburforce, Hewlitt, etc.
A lot t of those funders are moving away from funding hunting orgs though, as those funders move to a more DEIJ focused push, or want to go with federal lands conservation. Issues like season setting, corner crossing, etc aren't funded by those big donors and so it makes what @BuzzH is doing that much more difficult. Add in the politics and it gets murkier.
The $35 member model used to work when there were smaller populations & less competition for donations. Now, as folks have mentioned, there's a big race to separate people from cash with prizes. Which is ridiculous to me as those prizes are huge costs (guns, etc are purchased at wholesale) and so the ROI on raffles, etc is minimal.
Buzz ain't wrong. Some of these groups can drop a fundraising email and in 48 hours pick up $50k. That's a function of scale as much as fervor. When hunters are about 10% of the population, you have a tremendously limited pool.
BHR isn't wrong either. Some groups can do similarly in the hunting world (WSF for example) through other means. WSF is one of the best examples of fundraising as is RMEF in the sporting world.
That's worth at least $2.47.
Patagonia spreads their money around and they fund a ton of hunting groups. Most of the major donors work like this - spread the funding & cast a wide net: Wyss, Wilburforce, Hewlitt, etc.
A lot t of those funders are moving away from funding hunting orgs though, as those funders move to a more DEIJ focused push, or want to go with federal lands conservation. Issues like season setting, corner crossing, etc aren't funded by those big donors and so it makes what @BuzzH is doing that much more difficult. Add in the politics and it gets murkier.
The $35 member model used to work when there were smaller populations & less competition for donations. Now, as folks have mentioned, there's a big race to separate people from cash with prizes. Which is ridiculous to me as those prizes are huge costs (guns, etc are purchased at wholesale) and so the ROI on raffles, etc is minimal.
Buzz ain't wrong. Some of these groups can drop a fundraising email and in 48 hours pick up $50k. That's a function of scale as much as fervor. When hunters are about 10% of the population, you have a tremendously limited pool.
BHR isn't wrong either. Some groups can do similarly in the hunting world (WSF for example) through other means. WSF is one of the best examples of fundraising as is RMEF in the sporting world.
Similar threads
