Sometimes, a third party overhears a conversation between two hunters. Or, someone asks What are your plans for the weekend? What are you doing on your vacation? Other times, for some reason, hunters think it’s a good idea to raise the topic of hunting with people who do not hunt. Other times, hunters either show off their harvest or they are discovered with it. Some hunters add their hunting photos to their social media profile. It is very common social media users to have hundreds or even thousands of other users subscribed to receive every public photo added to their profile. The principles do not actually know most of their subscribers. However, often, even people that hunters are really acquainted with do not understand their hunting. Online or in-person; non-hunting acquaintances and strangers often ask something like Why do you hunt? What do you do with that dead animal? Why did you kill that animal? Are you going to eat it?
Taking pictures of game birds ready to be cooked or frozen, in the process of cooking, or the final product; has caught on with some hunters. We have been trying to encourage this practice. However, it frustrating when we read the profiles of people in our network and see they are not following our guidance on how to address questions of this nature, and that they are not including “culinary photos” along with their other hunting photos.
As hunters we cannot afford to continue to be cavalier in this manner. Mankind has been hunting for millions of years. Yet it is very common for people to ask hunters “for what” questions… We acknowledge that sometimes these are not really questions, but rather editorials implied in a question. It does not matter; the way to respond does not change.
When pheasant habitat disappeared so did wild pheasant, but instead of adding more pheasant release sites and stocking more pheasant; the states cut back; citing that it would not help pheasant populations. We agree – it won’t help pheasant populations, but it would help the population of hunters…
Taking pictures of game birds ready to be cooked or frozen, in the process of cooking, or the final product; has caught on with some hunters. We have been trying to encourage this practice. However, it frustrating when we read the profiles of people in our network and see they are not following our guidance on how to address questions of this nature, and that they are not including “culinary photos” along with their other hunting photos.
As hunters we cannot afford to continue to be cavalier in this manner. Mankind has been hunting for millions of years. Yet it is very common for people to ask hunters “for what” questions… We acknowledge that sometimes these are not really questions, but rather editorials implied in a question. It does not matter; the way to respond does not change.
When pheasant habitat disappeared so did wild pheasant, but instead of adding more pheasant release sites and stocking more pheasant; the states cut back; citing that it would not help pheasant populations. We agree – it won’t help pheasant populations, but it would help the population of hunters…