Disturbing sign
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Central Missouri
Posts: 360
RE: Disturbing sign
ORIGINAL: Garminator
there is nothing wrong with drinking a few cold ones after a successful harvest but for the love, don't drink bad beer (ie..Bubweiser)...
there is nothing wrong with drinking a few cold ones after a successful harvest but for the love, don't drink bad beer (ie..Bubweiser)...
#12
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Posts: 2,123
RE: Disturbing sign
ORIGINAL: Garminator
Agreed!!!!...take it for what it's worth & move on!!!.....and another thing, there is nothing wrong with drinking a few cold ones after a successful harvest but for the love, don't drink bad beer (ie..Bubweiser)...
Agreed!!!!...take it for what it's worth & move on!!!.....and another thing, there is nothing wrong with drinking a few cold ones after a successful harvest but for the love, don't drink bad beer (ie..Bubweiser)...
#14
RE: Disturbing sign
I will NOT go out in the woods if someone is drinking or has been drinking. There is no reason to drink when your hunting or before you go out. Hek with all the shootings every year i read in the papers about a guy getting killed when both hunters were sober. Just imagine everything is about 20 times worse when theres a drunk in the woods. But i totally agree with hunt sober.
#17
RE: Disturbing sign
NYhunter863 made a really good point earlier on this thread. Image matters. Posing in camo with beer cans and guns just perpetuates a stereotype that hunters really don't need. I know everyone thinks that it is just a picture they will have as a keepsake, but pictures do get posted on forums, and the anti-hunting faction does find them.
It's just as easy to put the beer cans away and pose. It also protrays hunters and hunting in a much better light.
It's just as easy to put the beer cans away and pose. It also protrays hunters and hunting in a much better light.
#19
RE: Disturbing sign
At first, I agreed with you and felt that all hunters were being stereotyped because of a relatively small group of morons with guns/bows. But the more I thought aboutit, the more I realized that many people in the general public already take it for granted that hunters drink, sometimes before, and usually after a hunt. Furthermore, some actually do hit the woods intoxicated. That's what's truly disturbing, not aroad sign with a PSA.
I'm now worried less about the public getting the wrong idea about hunters from the sign and more worried about actual hunters drinking and making us all look fools. If you don't drink and hunt, then that sign's really not for you. Just take it as a reminder to set the right example for your fellow sportsmen. That's the only thing that will really foster positive opinions abouthunt safety.
Oh, and I had a pair of Juenglings after last Friday's hunt. After the deer were dressed and dropped at the butcher, the rifle was unloaded and cleaned, and I was in my lounging sweats and far away from any and all cameras. Seems prettty common sense to me.
I'm now worried less about the public getting the wrong idea about hunters from the sign and more worried about actual hunters drinking and making us all look fools. If you don't drink and hunt, then that sign's really not for you. Just take it as a reminder to set the right example for your fellow sportsmen. That's the only thing that will really foster positive opinions abouthunt safety.
Oh, and I had a pair of Juenglings after last Friday's hunt. After the deer were dressed and dropped at the butcher, the rifle was unloaded and cleaned, and I was in my lounging sweats and far away from any and all cameras. Seems prettty common sense to me.
#20
RE: Disturbing sign
Aught Six, sadly you are right that the general public probably already thinks that hunters drink before, during and after the hunt. Some of them also think hunters are uneducated, uncouth rednecks who can barely remember not to wipe their noses on their shirt sleeves.
Public perception needs to be changed. All hunters need to remember that they are ambassadors for the hunting lifestyle. The only way to change public perception is one person at a time. The more hunters that donate excess game that they take to food banks, that spend time teaching others the safe way to hunt, and who work to be good citizens, the better the public face of hunting becomes.
I see a lot of posts about the future of hunting and what might happen. One way to help make sure that future is a good one is to present the best image of hunting we can present. If everyone keepsthis in mind, we can transform a lot of people who approve of hunting but are apathetic about supporting hunting into strong supporters of the hunting lifestyle.
Public perception needs to be changed. All hunters need to remember that they are ambassadors for the hunting lifestyle. The only way to change public perception is one person at a time. The more hunters that donate excess game that they take to food banks, that spend time teaching others the safe way to hunt, and who work to be good citizens, the better the public face of hunting becomes.
I see a lot of posts about the future of hunting and what might happen. One way to help make sure that future is a good one is to present the best image of hunting we can present. If everyone keepsthis in mind, we can transform a lot of people who approve of hunting but are apathetic about supporting hunting into strong supporters of the hunting lifestyle.