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March 3, 2015
Ask Ducks Unlimited to Cancel Cruel Live Pigeon Shoot
DEAR FRIENDS,
Last year, SHARK exposed a horrifically cruel live pigeon shoot that was to be held as a fundraiser for the Prior Lakes, Minnesota chapter of Ducks Unlimited. We made THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnllHXc17BI) video calling out Ducks Unlimited. To its credit, Ducks Unlimited quickly shut the shoot down and replaced it with a clay target shoot.
Ducks Unlimited Senior Communications Specialist Matt Coffey explained the shutdown this way:
“We have policies in place holding our staff and local volunteers to high ethical and moral standards, and do not condone wanton waste of wildlife or other animals. To avoid the potential for wanton waste, the event committee has decided to change the live pigeon event to a sporting clays shoot.”
Sadly, the Prior Lakes chapter of Ducks Unlimited is planning another pigeon shoot for March 19th. SHARK is again asking Ducks Unlimited’s national leaders to shut this down before 2,000 innocent birds are shot, wounded, crippled and viciously killed.
Here is the flyer for the shoot. Note how event organizers are calling it a “driven hunt.” They claim they are “harvesting” the pigeons and that they will be given to people to eat. US Senator James Inhofe tried to spin his cruel pigeon shoot the same way last year, but we exposed that as a lie in THIS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDbN36abT0k) video.
Let’s hope that the national leaders of Ducks Unlimited have more integrity than those in the Prior Lakes chapter.
Please call and write to Ducks Unlimited and politely ask that they follow their own standards and stop this horror before it happens. Let them know that if this slaughter takes place, then Ducks Unlimited reputation will be forever stained. Please let us know of any response you receive.
Dale Hall
CEO
(901) 758-3825
dhall@ducks.org
Matt Coffey
Senior Communications Specialist
(901) 758-3764
mcoffey@ducks.org
Exposing the Big Game 
SHARK has been trying for years to stop the pigeon shoots, but it seems that even the authorities do not want to intervene. It is a truly ugly spectacle: Hunters with shotguns blasting away at little harmless birds. Kids joining in on the kill fest by finding the wounded birds to break their necks, at least the birds that don’t fall in the river and drown. The shoot is homo sapiens at the pinnacle of his role as cosmic bully and destroyer of life. The event should have been stopped years ago. I’m going to call Ducks Unlimited (any bets that callers won’t get through?), but Ducks Unlimited might not want to hinder their brother hunters’ fun.