Imagine receiving 5,000 death threats. That’s enough to make some people cower and hide, but not Eva Shockey. After taking a large black bear on a fair chase hunt, the courageous young woman embraced the conflict and came out swinging.
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As Western Journalism recently reported, renowned outdoorswoman Eva Shockey encountered some especially harsh criticism after bagging a 510-pound black bear during a hunting expedition.
“I’ve had 5,000-plus death threats in one day,” she asserted, including when at least one hunting opponent urged her to kill her pet dog instead of wildlife.
“Apparently hunting a bear, eating/donating all of the meat and putting money towards conservation is a bad thing,” she wrote on her Facebook page, “but killing my puppy is ok. If this logic isn’t totally insane, I don’t know what is.”
While some might take such threats as a cue to tamp down their public support for hunting, Shockey has since proven she is fully prepared to fight back against her detractors. Set for a limited run, the hunter has released a line of apparel bearing the defiant message, “I’ll never apologize for being a hunter.”
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