The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting

The sooner we as hunters realize this the better. The anti hunters and the anti gun community have a common enemy and feed off each other's victories. They gain these victories by creating a fissure within the shooting sports community and then exploiting it. They use terms and arguments such as "sporting purposes" and "we are not after your sporting arms." to create a false sense of security in the hunting ranks.
At the same time the HSUS and other anti hunting orgs. target vunerable hunting methods and seasons, they even use the same type of argument "it's not sporting" or "it's not fair chase". Hmmm, there is that word again: Sporting.

By HSUS targeting and winning victories with, as an example, dove hunting, they begin to gain an incremental reason for anti gun orgs. to target semi automatic shot guns. This is how WE give them the ammo they need to use against us. Hunters that would never give dove hunting a second thought have, in fact, given the anti gun orgs. a bullet to use against semi auto shotguns. Some States disallow the use of semi auto weapons in many aspects of hunting, this calls into question the "sporting use" of these weapons giving more wiggle room to the anti gun orgs.

We can no longer afford to keep the divisive categories within our ranks; shooters, hunters, archers, bowhunters, crossbow hunters. These are antiquated and counter productive to the preservation of all of our "sports". We are marksmen, nothing more, nothing less; wether I use a bow or a .50 caliber I am a marksman. Wether I shoot paper, clays, 3D targets or live game I am a marksman. I practice my marksmanship to be the best I can be at whatever pursuit I choose to partake in.