Bnsafe\'s thread about losing interest in killing got me to thinking, again. What do you think about fist pumping displays, brought into public, and things like displaying a bloody head on the grille of a pickup truck? What if anything do you think is says about that hunter and what is the message the public gets? I am not looking for an argument for or against such displays. I just know that it bothers me some, and I am no anti-hunter or anything like that.
Fist Pumping
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cohunter14
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I don\'t think it\'s smart for anyone to do something like that because all it is going to do is rile up the non-hunters. Me personally, I don\'t care. If someone wants to show off their kill, go right ahead. But for every person like me out there, there are two anti\'s who will use it as fuel.
When you think about that though, isn\'t it sad? I am getting tired of people\'s feelings getting hurt by stupid things like that. The same people who don\'t want the ten commandments on public buildings and the pledge of allegiance said in school because it mentions the word \'God\'. Maybe I should start getting my feelings hurt when someone complains about people owning guns...
Sorry, off my soap box now. As I typed that I got a little riled up.
When you think about that though, isn\'t it sad? I am getting tired of people\'s feelings getting hurt by stupid things like that. The same people who don\'t want the ten commandments on public buildings and the pledge of allegiance said in school because it mentions the word \'God\'. Maybe I should start getting my feelings hurt when someone complains about people owning guns...
Sorry, off my soap box now. As I typed that I got a little riled up.
Derek, I think you missed something in your analysis. Here is an example. My younger daughter does not object to her husband, her brother or me hunting and killing for food. She is not voting against hunting. She knows where steaks and hamburger come from. She will cook and eat with us. Out of sensitivity for her feelings about things like that, she would never be asked to help dress a deer. I don\'t show her decapitated heads or things like that. She just does not want to see the bloody and severed body parts.
This daughter would not have been a candidate for nursing school. The hunters in the family are respectful of her feelings. Her feelings are important to us. How do you think she, and others like her would vote, if we paraded those bloody heads in front or them? How would a person that is from a non-hunting family vote, if subjected to these things?
I have severed a lot of animal heads. Still, I try to be sensitive. I did not always understand this the way I see it now.
Just another thought here. Hunters should be totally free to express themselves in the field, on videos or in other forum where people are not forced to view what has happened.
This daughter would not have been a candidate for nursing school. The hunters in the family are respectful of her feelings. Her feelings are important to us. How do you think she, and others like her would vote, if we paraded those bloody heads in front or them? How would a person that is from a non-hunting family vote, if subjected to these things?
I have severed a lot of animal heads. Still, I try to be sensitive. I did not always understand this the way I see it now.
Just another thought here. Hunters should be totally free to express themselves in the field, on videos or in other forum where people are not forced to view what has happened.
cohunter14
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Swede, I completely agree and my wife is actually the same way. I missed the \'bloody\' head portion in your post when I read it. Of course we shouldn\'t have bloody heads on display at any time, that is showing zero appreciation for the animal itself. I thought you were talking when you see someone displaying their rack hanging out the back of a pickup kind of a thing.
I understand being sensitive to other people about not showing off severed heads and such. But I have been known to maybe stick the antlers up a little higher in the truck bed a time or two 
. Just last night I had a talk with my in-laws that don\'t really care for hunting. They asked me if I really had to hang dead animals on the wall in my man cave and that I should think about taking them down. I told them that they were more then dead animals that they are stories behind them. kind of like a 3d book of something that is part of my life. I guess my point is no matter what you do even if you think your doing the right thing you are going to offend someone.
. Just last night I had a talk with my in-laws that don\'t really care for hunting. They asked me if I really had to hang dead animals on the wall in my man cave and that I should think about taking them down. I told them that they were more then dead animals that they are stories behind them. kind of like a 3d book of something that is part of my life. I guess my point is no matter what you do even if you think your doing the right thing you are going to offend someone.I\'ve certainly evolved over time. I used to get super excited when I was young and would show off every deer and turkey I killed. Maybe that was due to being young but I feel kind of like deertick. Now when I kill, it\'s more of a private thing. I make sure I say a prayer, get the deer/turkey home and processed quickly. Not sure why I\'ve changed so much I know it has nothing to do with how others think about me, it\'s mainly just my evolution as a hunter I suppose. I don\'t always take pictures anymore either, no problems with people who do though.
\"Pikemaster\" said:
Me too. I like what Pikemaster and really what all of you point out. What we do as hunters is legal, moral and actually a valuable part of wildlife management. We have nothing to be ashamed about. We don\'t need to hide out trophies in a closet when non-hunters come to our home. But I will be sensitive to others when I have dead animals being transported, or things like that. I will not engage in, what appears to be a barbaric ritual in my driveway in front of neighbors, when a dead animal in delivered.
