A San Diego hunting group is raising the old debate about hunters and whether or not they really care about the animals they hunt.

Here & Now's Robin Young spent last Saturday with a group of men who had volunteered to repair an old guzzler on state land near Ramona, northeast of San Diego.

The guzzlers were built decades ago to collect rainwater for animals. They're cisterns made of concrete, and the one these men worked on was badly deteriorated, with cracks in the concrete above and below the ground.

How Guzzlers Work

Guzzlers collect rainwater as it falls on an outer concrete apron, which guides the water into the cistern below.

"When it rains, the water falls on the apron and it just runs down and fills that cistern. And then there's



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