Something that makes me cringe

I won't hunt with guys who provide updates and share pics on the public web. It has ruined some of spots for my big game hunting.

I have hunted with guys that are into the diy hunts and record. It was obvious that they were only trying to impress people online.

I am trying to get the memories of the hunt with a camera now that I got a kid old enough. the best shots I got are not of the kills! It does get old just looking at dead things in a photo album.




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Agreed Paul
As usual you and I have the same opinion.
I've never understood the "blood lust" mentality of some hunters and I know more than a few.
 
In this I would include:
Grinding
Stacking
Sky Carp
Spelling the number shot with the game
The prevalence of "Team" names
The over-the-top usage of heavy metal music
The never ending slo-mo editing of the shot strike

Ultimately, in my opinion, the change in filming hunts is the self-aggrandizement of the ego. It follows the earlier comment that the game is the enemy.

It seems the video generation has either slowed hunter development or made observable only a portion of the 6 stages of hunter development. The people between levels 1 and 3 have taken over the media relations. Levels 4-6, epitomized by the likes of Grits Gresham, Tony Dean, et al, have not adopted current media trends with the same gusto. Where as the Shooters, Limit Hunters, and Trophy Hunters have adopted these trends with zeal.
 
I never enjoyed hunting with more than one other person. Waterfowling for me is more personal. I like the opportunity
to talk to my buddy or son or daughter. I'm not into big groups of hunters. We even take turns shooting so no one has to "jump the gun' to be the first to shoot at a bird., plus I enjoy watching the other guy shoot and we can more readily mark the downed bird. I think the marketing aspect of hunting equipment drives the ideology behind theses videos. As always the commercialization/ marketing brings out the worst. I view the videos as more of a commercial then anything else.
 
Paul:

Agree.

I might add that the height of the degradation of our sport is the "slo-mo" death of a duck on these videos, so often repeated!!!
 
What about the photographers that like to take those pics, especially the ones with the pellets in the pic, we need to call them out too?
 
James Woods said:
Paul:

Agree.

I might add that the height of the degradation of our sport is the "slo-mo" death of a duck on these videos, so often repeated!!!
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You may be right, but the tailgate shots of stacks of dead birds are pretty gross, too. Especially when it's a large group limit of something unlikely to be eaten in the quantity that was harvested.

Lots of ugliness to go around. We fortunately see very little of that here, and a lot of great photography.
 
My dead pile is small.. since I hunt alone... (Shut up Dave!)

I like to record... because of the experience... and being able to rewatch the retrieves.. maybe I will eventually get video of the birds coming in and falling from the sky.... lol
 
Matt DeFore said:
So now we can't take pics afterwards of our successful and legal hunts anymore.
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Yes, the pendulum always seems to swing from one extreme of its arc to the other, with no effort made to appreciate the middle of that arc.
 
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