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Has he completely disappeared from the hunting scene since the big controversy?
I don't believe I have seen him in any magazines or on TV since.

Missed it, what controversy?

Mike

He's still out there. I will have to look, but I know I have seen him in a recent magazine.

donsm70

AR15s... no one needs em, they only kill people or some such....

He ain't out there anymore far as I care, I wouldn't read or watch the SOB traitor on a bet.

Ah I missed that!

Mike

He still has a show on the Outdoor channel right?

I haven't seen it advertised in a long time. He lost a lot of support even though he supposedly "saw the light" thanks to a Ted Nugent intervention.

Don't believe so.

He snakes around shot show like some one should give a [bleep] about him I think he mostly just gets the stink eye. [bleep] him he's a trader.

Fine with me. I never thought much of the guy anyway. Always seemed like a bit of a blowhard.

Yes he is writes well but knows little and is a first class prick.

I never cared for his show, especially his "cooking".

He's entitled to his opinion, but should have thought it through before spouting off. When you're in the public eye and use the forum that provides your livelihood to go on a rant about something, there's a price to pay.

I've got to wonder if Nugent's intervention really changed his mind, or if it was just an attempt staged by the industry to keep the money flowing.

Please don't take this as me picking on you.

Traders are alright. They get together and swap stuff.

Traitors are sheetbirds and should be shunned.

Zumbo is a Traitor not a Trader.

Thanks for the correction yes he's a [bleep] for sure

Zumbo Is just a guy that hunts then writes about it. If you have an Issue with the guys past, It is your flaw in thinking. There are lots of different types of Slobs, Some of you are the worst type. Back Biters.

Thanks for the post modern slant on things. The guy is a traitor. I'm sure I'm like alot of guys when I say I certainly don't hate him, but he has no place in our lifestyle given his flaky views.

I have an issue with Jane Fonda's past too. If she should take up writing about the outdoors, am I supposed to forget how she betrayed American POWs?

He equaled the nations service rifle to the terrorist that we are at war with, he was a legend in his own mind before that little tidbit, and he just came out as the big giant douche that he always was. The AR-15 and its variants are very very useful to have around, they make good hunting rifles too.

A while back he wrote about an elk he shot that went down on its belly in very heavy brush. He said he spent 3 hours just getting turned over so he could gut it. 3 hours? I play them as they lie. I would have got out my saw and cleared some working room, then start boning on the top and work my way down. I would have all the meat off before he even started.

I didn't think he was that bad a guy. I gotta admit that at one time I didn't think I'd be using a black rifle for hunting.

For instance, I've never used my M1 for hunting, only targets / competition.

Today black rifles are very popular for hunting such things as wild hogs.

One family of my cousins all started off with semi-auto 22's. My siblings and I started out with single shots. When we hunted together they would shoot more than 10x more ammo than what we would shoot. But we'd end up with rabbits or squirrels and they didn't.

I could see the philosophy of being against semi-auto's for hunting just based on my started out.

Zumbo seemed to be primarily an elk hunter and used bolt action rifles. I suspect that a great majority of elk hunters use bolt guns.

An AR-15 was only available in 223 at the time and I thought he said that he could see no hunting purpose with black guns.

I didn't recall him saying that black guns were only good for killing people. If he did, shame on him.

Again, at the time I thought of black rifles as target and home defense. The AR-15's I had seen back then were not accurate enough for prairie dogs and not in my opinion powerful enough for deer with the bullets available then.

He should have thought a little before he dissed the black rifles though. Home defense is as valid or more so a reason for having a rifle as hunting, IMO.

One last thing. If you live in the rural west as many of us do, we really don't feel the need for slef protection from humans as much as people in more populated areas.

As far as Jane the bitch Fonda goes, I was in USMC 69-72. You can't imagine what I think of that whore. She should have gone to the electric chair or some other means of capital punishment, IMHO!