BigHornRam
Well-known member
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.
