Comment on kill pictures

[scn]

First off, this has nothing to do with tndeer/moderator status. It represents my personal opinion.

As a hunter, I personally don't have a lot of issues with blood and gore. I've ended up cutting a wounded deer's throat a couple of times to finish it off, so I have been the originator of significant gore. But, with that being said, pictures of kills that make their way to social media reach a wide range of audiences. Some probably don't have the tolerance level that I, and most of you, have for blood and gore. And, before the screw them comments start, we are all well-served to remember that occasionally those folks vote on issues that are near and dear to us. There is no sense poisoning the well if we don't have to.

From the Bowriter rants on pictures, it just takes a little effort to really improve the shot. A gallon jug of water in your truck and a few paper towels can greatly clean up a tailgate picture. It is hard to do at the kill site, but, the "pro's" usually take some time even there with what they have on hand to tidy things up a little before their hero pose. Just take a few seconds to wash off as much blood as you can, and your picture quality goes up greatly. If there is a puddle of blood from where the head has been hanging off the tailgate, take a second to pull the truck/ATV forward until it isn't in the picture.

A picture with the tongue hanging out is the sign of a non-professional picture as well. If you can't stuff it back in the mouth, cut it off before the picture.

Again, none of this is of earth shattering importance. Just an FYI that with just a little forethought and effort, your kill picture can be improved immensely.

 

[TheLBLman]

Very good points.
I agree with you.

 

[infoman jr.]

I wholeheartedly agree.

 

[landman]

Baby wipes do a great job cleaning up blood too

 

[rem270]

It doesn't bother me either and don't care how other people's pics look. But I like to have some good shots of mine for the future when I look back at them so i make sure it looks decent.

 

[BlackBelt]

100% agree. It doesnt usually take but a couple of minutes to clean them up for a pic.
Well worth the time because you dont know is going to see it.

 

[easy45]

Completely agree


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[Life at 20']

Well said, I agree 100%.....

 

[fairchaser]

I agree and try to pose the deer so that you aren't looking at a gapping hole. For me the best hero shots show the deer in a natural setting with no blood or holes showing. This is the ultimate respect for the animal.

 

[Mike Belt]

Pictures shared with fellow hunters may not be the same as those shared with the general public or where the general public has access to them. Those that do hunt have probably been up to their armpits in blood and guts and look forward to doing it again. Most of the general public probably hasn't been much beyond a cut finger and band aid and can get squeamish at the sight of it. I just don't see the point in fanning any potential spark against hunting by adding fuel to the fire.

 

[Grnwing]

Great reminder and post!

 

[TNWhit3tail]

Agree. I actually take pics of the deer now as soon as I get there before I field dress. Just prop my phone on a log with the phone case kickstand and snap a couple.

Don't get me wrong, I've taken plenty of pics with bloody deer and processing them...just selective in who I share those with.

 

[Andy S.]

I could not agree more. I was scrolling through some kill pics online last night with my 4 year old daughter, and instantly had to hurriedly minimize the window due to the half second of blood and gore she saw, and began to question. I was okay with it (kind of), but could totally see where it would do more harm than good with the general public, who far outnumber us in the long run. Great point Steve, thanks for posting.

 

[Headhunter]

I have never understood why a tongue hanging out is such an issue. It is a dead animal.

 

[Headhunter]

My biggest problem is spotted fawn kill pics. Of course I was banned for a while and called all kinds of things when all I was trying to point out is that there are a lot of people who do not hunt, don't care if anyone does hunt, but a pic of a spotted fawn kill will give them reason to hate and despise hunting. Bowriter argued against that more than anyone. Even cussed me in PM's about it.

 

[TreyB]

Good post agree 100%

 

[Buzzard Breath]

:tu:

 

[Bone Collector]

Good post. I agree and disagree. I usually take pictures of the deer where I find them. If i have water, it is not going to be dumped on them but rather will be drank by me after i get done dragging the deer out.

This is a hunting forum. If you are on here you either mean to be on here, or you are looking for something to be offended by. If you are doing the latter, then i have no sympathy for you and could care less what you think, because you are probably against hunting anyway and will not vote to further hunting or would vote to ban it.

On FB i agree 100%. I never post kill pictures to my personal time line. I do however post to closed private group pages. If you somehow sneak past the mods and gain entrance and then find the pictures offensive, you are probably an anti hunter and looking to cause issues.

If a non hunter browses the forum and finds they don't like the pictures, so be it. I wouldn't go to pages or sites supporting gay people and hope not to see any pictures of gay people... Just saying.

 

[THEdonkey0515]

Good post. I agree and disagree. I usually take pictures of the deer where I find them. If i have water, it is not going to be dumped on them but rather will be drank by me after i get done dragging the deer out.

This is a hunting forum. If you are on here you either mean to be on here, or you are looking for something to be offended by. If you are doing the latter, then i have no sympathy for you and could care less what you think, because you are probably against hunting anyway and will not vote to further hunting or would vote to ban it.

On FB i agree 100%. I never post kill pictures to my personal time line. I do however post to closed private group pages. If you somehow sneak past the mods and gain entrance and then find the pictures offensive, you are probably an anti hunter and looking to cause issues.

If a non hunter browses the forum and finds they don't like the pictures, so be it. I wouldn't go to pages or sites supporting gay people and hope not to see any pictures of gay people... Just saying.

Yup, pretty much how I feel on the subject

 

[treefarmer]

I agree 100%. I have non-hunting daughters, granddaughters, wife, etc. and am sure they like to see clean deer. I was taught 45 years ago to tuck in the tongue by an old timer. I only look at the blood/gore for a moment.

 

[infoman jr.]

I like for a picture to help tell a story. Some of the pics posted on here look no different than if someone had pulled over and taken a picture of a road kill deer. It's just not interesting to me.

 

[GRIT]

I remember when the truck tailgate was a issue make sure you don't leave your tailgate down so everyone can see your dead deer.Well hunters slowed up on that.Very seldom do i see a tailgate down now days showing off a deer going down the road.So to me hunters have cleaned it up a lot.The ones that don't like hunters never will even if we put makeup on the deer and put glass eyes in them before we take a pic of them.
A pic of a dead deer with blood doesn't bother me but i could see were it could make some people look down on hunters.A dead bloody deer pic is like pouring gas on a fire to some people.

 

[DRSJ35]

while i agree i also think people who hate hunting. Actually hate it because of the killing part.And a picture isnt gonna make them any smarter on the subject.

 

[THEdonkey0515]

I remember when the truck tailgate was a issue make sure you don't leave your tailgate down so everyone can see your dead deer.Well hunters slowed up on that.Very seldom do i see a tailgate down now days showing off a deer going down the road.So to me hunters have cleaned it up a lot.The ones that don't like hunters never will even if we put makeup on the deer and put glass eyes in them before we take a pic of them.
A pic of a dead deer with blood doesn't bother me but i could see were it could make some people look down on hunters.A dead bloody deer pic is like pouring gas on a fire to some people.

Just a tail gate down got people riled up?

Dang I remember when people stripped the deer to the front hood of an old jeep to get home in these parts never heard of people freaking out back then...usually a few smiles & waves, and a couple thumbs up. People sure do like to cause a stir when ever possible now.

 

[fairchaser]

As Forest Gump would say. "And just like that, we couldn't see blood anymore. :lol:

 

[playping2]

Nice job

 

[TN RDG RNR]

Photoshop is always an option

 

[Grill-n-man]

Only part i can agree with and say good comment to is cleaning up the pic for an "open" viewing such as a personal FB page. Other than that I have to disagree. When the picture is going to viewed on a hunting forum that is intended for hunters have to disagree 100%, now this applies for us normal folk not the occasional weird O that shows up from time to time. As for the big time TV guys, well yes they do clean it up for TV, magazines, and such as it is an "open" viewing. But when you go directly to webpages of such like Rage broadheads (this is simply an example there are many more) guess what you see, blood and gore. Its meant for hunters and hunters want to see if a product does what it says it will. Aint nobody going to pay $16+ for one broadhead just on hear say. Hiding the blood from kids, wife, etc? In the last 30 years of deer hunting i can count on one hand the number of people i have seen get a little turned off by a dead bloody deer, which in case most deer shot have little blood on the outside to start with. Most of it comes from field dressing and is for the most part gone or covered up by dirt from dragging. Since my son was born he has seen everything i have brought home, blood and all. He has now seen all aspects of the hunt from watching, to killing, to field dressing, to processing and is more eager to join in as each year passes. I have never hid anything from my wife and she is now a hunter as well. Death of an animal is part of hunting and hiding that fact and all that comes with it from others is an act of admittance of some wrong doing. Farmers harvest Thieves take Hunters kill thats just the way it is. Fuel for the antis? You think acting ashamed of what has been done or hiding it is not? Why should one cover up what one has done when no wrong doing has taken place just for someone else? Why is their feelings any more important than mine? If you do not like hunting nor the death that comes from that then go away and keep your nose out of my business.

So in short, if you feel the need to wash a deer then do it. But if your doing it to hide what has taken place from others then well might want to ponder on the why for awhile.

I respect all animals I kill, from the moment before i see them till the last bite is gone. I am ashamed of no part of killing an animal and will not hide the fact of what has taken place. I will not sacrifice my beliefs nor the way I do things just so someone can feel better about themselves at my expense. You dont like my ideas and the way I do thing then stay away, trust me you'll be alot happier.

And last but not least, the antis already have a mind set and nothing we do or dont do is going to change that. As well as anything we hunters do,, outside of stopping hunting is fuel for their fire. Question is how much of yourself and who you are is going to be lost under the pretense of saving hunting's future?

 

[knightrider]

I never new death with bows and guns was so clean, I'm sorry but people who hates aren't going to go all lollipops and sunshine because you gave your dead deer a bath. I know but those on the fence SMH they already have a fence up their rear they don't care if your picture is clean or real!! This is the very reason I quit posting my pics on here to many folks needing a ride in the whaàabulance

 

[TheLBLman]

It's not that most of us are disagreeing with you,
just not seeing what pictures we post to strangers on the internet has to do with our personal hunting.
The pics we post on TNdeer.com are just as "public" as any posted on Facebook, etc.?

. . . . the antis already have a mind set and nothing we do or dont do is going to change that.

Agree.

But here's what I see as a bigger picture than those current antis:

We hunters are already in the minority, as most voting adults are currently just "NON"-Hunters.

My numbers are off a tad, but . . . .
Something like about 20% of us hunt, 80% don't hunt, with only about 5% of those "non" hunters being ANTI-hunters.

At present, most non-hunters don't have a problem with our hunting.
But it wouldn't take much of a shift in the dynamics for the anti-hunters to outnumber the hunters,
and then, hunting as we know it, ends.

Am bringing this up because anti-hunters are constantly trolling the internet looking for the most gory pics they can find as part of their efforts to turn non-hunters into anti-hunters.

By contrast, if I'm posting pics to strangers, my hope is those pics might make the non-hunters among them want to learn more about hunting, rather than vote to oppose it.

Question is how much of yourself and who you are is going to be lost under the pretense of saving hunting's future?

Well, I don't see that I'm losing a darned thing, nothing, by not posting a gory pic for the benefit of strangers.
I might text one to a hunting buddy, but why the world?
I really don't need to do that for any sense of hunting fulfillment.

I otherwise personally have no problem posting deer kill pics myself here on TNdeer.com ---- just aware of how certain pics can be used against us, so I try to only post my best pics with the least gore.

As SCN so eloquently communicated, the issue here is mainly to just raise awareness to those who might otherwise not have thought it.
Congratulations to all those who have recently posted pics of their archery kills.
I'm proud for you, too.