Southern Man wrote:UPbowhunter wrote: Our country is in the shape it is because the Normal people have been quiet for a few decades and not wanting to offend anyone. I don't care what others think of what I do. I will do what is normal to me. If someone is so removed from reality that their offended by a phrase who really has the problem?
I agree with this. What I consider normal people (or people with a bit of common sense) don't gripe and whine about forcing their opinions down the throat of other people. They stay silent.Exophysical wrote:I'm not around that many antis, I'm not worried about antis, I don't really care how the antis feel. But I'm careful to conduct myself in a manner that does not create more antis. We've got a major PR problem as hunters, its way harder getting permission from land owners these days, the only hunters that the apathetic majority hears much about are the slobs and poachers, the dummies that shoot their partners or leave animals to rot after cutting off the antlers. As a result things are getting harder for us. When I am representing this sport, as a hunter, I try to conduct myself in a manner that leaves a good impression with the general public. We hunt, we kill animals, that is our sport and I wont try to dumb that down, but I don't think going out of my way in an attempt to be overly graphic ( or whatever it is that the WWF style goofyness is supposed to accomplish) is necessarily a mature or responsible approach. Yes its just wording but do you guys realy get that much enjoyment out of infusing street style slang into our sport that its worth furthering an inaccurate and unflattering image that the world is slowly adopting in regards to hunters?
I agree with this to a point. Some people look at what we do as cruel. But I don't think the use of Harvest or Kill is really gonna make any difference in the long run. It's the people that don't understand this way of life that will be (and are) the problem.
That being said, I don't hide what I do and am not ashamed of it in any shape or form, but I don't flaunt it in the face of someone that doesn't care for it either. I do what I do and if you don't like it, then look the other way. Same as Busch Lite Bandit, if you don't care for the post, move on to another. People have all kinds of opinions. If your's is different than mine, so be it. I'll respect your opinion, but you respect mine also. Just don't try to make me live (or speak) the way you want to.
The thing is, you can describe a hunt in any language you want, you can get as graphic as you like, you can drop eff bombs every sentence if you want, and I will still get it. No matter how irreverent and nutty you come across I'll understand. I know about the self control that goes into staying on your stand until last light even though your frozen and hungry. I know how picking through a tangled mess of bush at a snails pace, all your senses tuned, you can suddenly become a part of the forest rather than an intruder or an observer. I know that no matter how you worded it you felt that crazy, bittersweet train wreck of emotions when you finally made the kill. And that is exactly the reason that I am somewhat sensitive to the non- hunter when I talk about hunting, because they don't know any of this and I feel that its important that we do our best to help them understand what hunting actualy is as best they can. "Laying the smack down on a slob" does not exactly help in this regard.
Your a colorful character for sure. 
