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'The Guns of Autumn' revisited, then and now

As we head toward autumn and the initial opening of several hunting seasons, I'm reminded of a special anti hunting program that CBS televised years ago. The program, "The Guns of Autumn," aired in 1975, depicted hunting as a cruel, outdated activity, carried out by blood thirsty killers and mentally inferior morons. Its level of inaccurate biasness bordered on the absurd, to say the least.

Read About It: The Evening Sun (Norwich, NY)

Posted: 9/11/2009 9:31:58 AM

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