farm hunter, thats the dumbest thing i've ever read in my life.

If I would have killed that buck, or if it was a doe even I would have set it up for a nice photo. That is an awesome buck but the picture says nothing about the type of hunter that guy is. If he is not interested in a field photo, more power to him.

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I don't care about the pictures, I just like to see deer pictures and my fascination with them can overcome the background. I take pictures in the field, at the house in the lawn with the kids, hanging in the garage, and in the back of the truck. I shot one deer and recovered late at night and didn't think to bring the camera so after dragging and hanging I waited until after the morning hunt the next day and put him back in the truck and drove to the recovery site unloaded and took one of my favorite pictures in the woods of me with a deer. Chris

I know I made a few small comments about one of the pics of a nice buck but I am not sure if it was that one. I better go check the thread again to see which side of the issue I stand on.

Look i got one of dem too in da back my truck bed dere. Which then turned into pic # 2 and #3.

it's just more of the same ol' this is the way that I do it and if you don't do it this way you suck. Don't worry about take the picture howand when you want.

WOW, I guess I must appologize. I think that I am the first one that mentioned the bed of the truck in the original thread.

In my opinion and this is just my opinion. If you are going to go through all of the work to bag such an animal, why not take an extra 5 to 10 minutes on top of the numerous hours already put into it to take a few good pictures. Granted, not all of the pictures of my animals have been great ones, but every year I try to get better. You don't have to drag them back out to the woods. Drag them out into the yard in front of some bushes or something. I know I might hurt some feelings of people I have come to know and like, but to take pictures in the back of a truck illustrates just how lazy some people are.

The year I shot my P&Y, I drove 10 miles one way and then 10 miles back just to go home and get my camera to take pictures where he laid. And this was on Thanksgiving morning and I was in charge of the turkey. I took a chance at messing up the whole dinner to try and get some good pictures. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't look at that picture on my office wall here at work. I am proud to hang that picture. If that deer was in the back of a truck, it would look rediculous hanging on my wall.

Again I appologize for causing such a ruckous, and again...it is just my opinion.

A few years ago, I realized the importance of good pictures.

To me, I always try to take a "nice" photo, and not a truck bed or garage picture.

WHY? ....because it is SOOOOOO much easier to talk to non-hunters about my hunting trips, when they aren't throwing up from looking at a gutted bloddy buck with his tongue hanging out. I keep photos of my hunts in my office and on my desk at work. I can damn well guarantee that if they were all bloody, tasteless photos, I would have a much more difficult time talking about the hunts to people.

LIKE IT OR NOT FOLKS, we have to worry about our image as hunters. And I challenge ANYONE to prove to me that a bloody, truck bed buck photo is less offensive than a nice, in the field, pre-gutted picture.



Which picture would you rather have on your wall?

This "truckbed photo"


or this "in the field" picture?

Farm Hunter, if that picture of a beautiful 28 pointertells you what kind of hunter he is, please share your thoughts. I'd love to hear them.

Personally I rarely (occassionally but not very often) bring a camera in the woods, I domost my picture taking from the field during pre scouting, after I have harvested an animal or dont bother with them at all.

Does anyone know if the hunter of the 28pt didn't get any "quality" photos in the field? Or is this just the first photo from a bystander to make the net? I carry a 35mm camera in mytruck or at the camper that I try to snap in the field shots, but I also try to snap some digital shots at home. I print off the digital to show friends and coworkers that want to see right away and whenever the roll of 35mm is finished it gets developed which could be a couple of months. The "non-quality" photos are in circulation long before the "quality" ones, either way I still just like to look at the deer pictures. Chris