If my neighbor doesn't like when the kids leave their toys in the yard I tell the kids to clean them up and be more respectful of our neighbors - that is not retreating, it is living in a civil society. But I guess that makes me a "p&ssy" and I should throw more crap in my yard to show him I am a man.
Is hanging a deer in a fricken tree really that deep? mtmuley
Better to be a good neighbor than a stubborn ass, VG.
It’s just off to me that someone would find fault in a fellow hunter for hanging a deee on their own private property then bring 50lbs of rifle hunted game inside a sealed tube of public transportation.
Again - not posting about that narrow a point. But I apologize for all future posts of mine that are not less than 10 words and may not be lasered to the most narrow read of a 10-page thread, as it will continue to happen.
Something that was perfectly normal is now “obnoxious” because people tried to be polite, and so that is now lost.
The parallel is if he opened up the cooler and proclaimed its contents on the playground during recess. I assume wllm did not shout out the presence of his meat and show it off (its ok to laugh at this point) to all on that plane.
Some would prefer the flamingo - and that is the point of civil society, understanding the views of others.
We would have been reading that in the news for sure.
I understand the views of people, that doesn’t mean I have to cave to them nor them to me. The whole idea of someone having to do something perfectly legal that they do in order to not risk offending someone else’s view is goofy to me. But that’s society now.
There is no point in American history where something that was routine 30 years ago hadn’t become less common and accepted in that moment. And every time folks lamented that change. Change is not new or just “now”.
Changing for facts and changing for feelings is 2 different things.
Most of these faux woke people feel guilty about eating meat, but still can't shake their burger and bacon addiction. Complicated world we now live in.
Frankly - most of us in the middle are tired of both ends be “offended”, and then “being offended at the other’s offense” and then “being offended at the others offense to the original offense” . . . (recursive repeat chorus).
Being offended is a symptom of a society that is so well off the general population has almost no problems in their daily lives and manufactures reasons to have problems.
This is a battle of ideas, our goal is continued societal acceptance.
How do you fight?
1. Hunting ethically, hunting lawfully.
2. Taking the higher road, not coming off like an a-hole
3. Being an ambassador for hunting.
One is pretty self explanatory.
Two, there are a components to this, is just don't try to piss people off, if you know it's gonna be a thing don't make it one. The second component is keeping your cool when getting confronted by anti-hunters, especially if it's on camera, record the incident yourself if you can. Don't curse at them, don't threaten them, tell them you are legally hunting, if you can resolve the incident by being polite call the cops. The victory here is demonstrating how unreasonable the other person is acting.
Three, lot of great folks on this forum. Just be yourself and don't hide that you hunt, goal is for people to be like "oh yeah hunting, well my buddy Will does that and he's a good guy, so yeah it should be legal." This probably isn't all that applicable if you live in rural areas where lots of folks hunt. When I lived in Bozeman definitely not something I was all that worried about. Entirely different story when we moved to Boston.
@DouglasR so about the heads, they are not hidden. Actually I think a applicable story here was thanksgiving. We had a bunch of people over, no one else hunts. We had turkey, some caribou pasties, and then a couple other entrees. It was a pretty mixed group of friends so we made sure there were some for everyone no matter their dietary restrictions, no vegans but some vegetarians . We have some Jewish and Muslim friends so this year I used beef suet instead of pork when I processed my caribou. Anyway we had dinner, we told everyone were the caribou came from, they all saw the euro... and yeah not much to report... "oh cool your hobby contributed to dinner, these pasties are really good." I don't use social media much beyond hunttalk but I post hunts other places occasionally where my non-hunting friends see them. I'm perfectly happy to accommodate folks that don't eat meat and they seem perfectly fine having a buddy that hunts.
I'd like to think there are a number of folks out there that are now more accepting of hunting because of me.
Might want to dig into that quote a bit... Andre Gide
