Check this out.

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2017/08/peta_anti-hunting_facebook_cam.html#incart_m-rpt-2

Several of my buddies are doing that.

I bet the PETA folk are going crazy... Gotta be embarrassing

My feed was full of these this morning. I don't typically participate in FaceBook shenanigans, but did this time.

I was curious if PETA had a take on this whole thing, and I find it funny that they call it a backfire on the hunters trolling them. They even go as far as calling kids that hunt future school shooters...

https://www.peta.org/blog/hunters-attempts-troll-peta-backfire-big-time/

I put one up of a deer I shot last year. Laying on the ground with a puddle of blood and blood oozing out the side.
Put it on Instagram too.


Edit: this was quoted from the link provided above. "In an attempt at humor, thousands of hunters began using PETA’s frame on photos of themselves posing with the corpses of animals they’d killed. But ironically, their actions served only to introduce PETA and our anti-hunting message to a whole new audience."

Uhhhh, no it didn't. Their target audience are not on my FB friends list and I'm definitely not following some leftist douchebags on Instagram.

I'm an active member of P.E.T.A. ... People Eating Tasty Animals ...

They claim we are trolling them when in fact the whole thing started in an attempt to troll hunters.

Guilty.

Me too

Do you guys really believe that PETA did not anticipate that hunters would "hijack" their overlay? I am willing to bet they were counting on it. Tons more exposure than they could garner on their own...and to a completely different audience than they could reach through their normal channels.

I am sure they are having a nice soy latte and congratulating themselves tonight.

Agree completely and also they now have a list of people to stalk and harass. No thanks, I don't need that kind of attention.

I doubt very seriously they are happy about the turn of events. It is a major backfire for them and having the exact opposite effect of what was intended.

They have done their research. How hunting is viewed by the non hunting public is a direct result of the class or lack there of in our pictures. They just tee'd up a hell of a publicity campaign. For every 20 great photos we use there will be one distasteful. Which ones do you think they will highlight and be reposting?

At some point people have to refuse to allow PC to dictate rules, social norms etc. This seems like a fine place to start. Otherwise you let the few wimps who get offended determine what's acceptable for the majority.

IMO that's what's gotten this world so upside down. Granting such power to the offended is a recipe for chaos.

I don't disagree but political correctness and perception are two different things.
You don't have to be PC to have a tasteful photos or photos that simply don't highlight bad perceptions

When you are the majority you don't have to worry about Tastefulness. We as hunters are not the majority, hell we can't even support each other!!!

13.5 million hunters in the US
6.5 million PETA member and supporters world wide.
Screw em.

Really....BC just closed Grizzly "trophy" hunting. Over 15,000 grizzly population and they had a 250 tag cap.. not even 2% of the population was being taken.

They said screw the North American Conservation model. They said screw science and did it based off "public opinion".

There are units in states that you can't hunt on the weekends, to "protect" hikers and backpacks from watching fluffy the white goat roll down a cliff, or bullwinkle the Moose to die in middle of the trail with frothy lung blood coming out of its mouth.

You looked at our public draw hunt dates?

We live in a bubble because of our strong private property rights. That doesn't follow suit in other states.

320 million people in the US and only 13.5 hunters. Think about it for a second. PETA isn't trying to reach there activist members. The are trying to reach the other 300 plus million non hunters, by saying we just kill animals for its head or antlers

They canceled trophy hunting. Can still hunt them, just can't keep the non-edible portions. If fewer people get tags, that just enforces the belief you are trying to dispell in your last sentence.

And it will reinforce it. Stop allowing sheep horn procession and see how many people pay 25k -150k for tags/hunts. Shut down African animal capes and skulls coming in and see what happens there... oh wait they are working on that too.

It's coming to a state near you. We as hunters have done a terrible job explaining and showing why we exemplify a dead animal, especially with distasteful photos.

A photo can't tell someone, that the hunter walked 20 miles in two days, or that it was 27 degrees on the 27 of November with a slight north wind, and that I had hunted that deer for two years....or can it?

Just look at the views and replies on THF. The better the photo quality , more replys it gets.

PETA isn't playing to thier base. They are playing to the voting non hunting general public

Hunters aren't the majority. But people who support hunting are the VAST majority.

Perception isn't the issue. PC is. Allowing the minority who are "offended" at anything the power to dictate to the majority, is the issue.

http://wwwcdn.deeranddeerhunting.com/wp-content/uploads/Survey-1.png

Facebook is the devil. It's been more than 3 years since I've logged in to FB, the next time I do it will be to delete my profile (to the extent it can be).

If something is "free", you are the product.

They were talking about it on the radio this morning lol apparently PETA (people eating tasty animals) isnt very happy lol

My brother put my ram on FB. 95% of the replies were very positive. 2 negative. I took that opportunity to explain (with facts and numbers) how hunters are the best conservationists the world has ever known. Plus facts about how sheep are going to die - whether by old age, exposure, predation, or a bullet.

I was very surprised at the positive responses from non-hunters who said they just didn't know those things and/or had never thought about them.

We need to educate - firmly, politely, one non-hunter at a time.

I didn't do the PETA selfie thing either. I'm not worried about PC, but I do think there are better ways to make a point. And rancher - you are wrong about hunters having overwhelming support. Various hunting bans across the country have shown that is simply not true. You are way too Texas-centric in your thinking.

BC Canada is a flat out mess as far as their govt./game management is concerned. I heard all about it over the last two weeks. It's complicated, but it's really just a wreck. Proposed bans on some things, refusal to restrict on others (residents putting crazy pressure on Stone sheep herd because can hunt OTC), - lots of issues. Sad, because BC is a wilderness paradise and just a little management would keep it that way forever.

Support for hunting is clearly declining in this country. Over the last 50 years I've been watching it shift from active participation by the masses, to tolerance.

Intolerance is next. If you can't see it, you aren't looking at the broad picture of societal rot.
Heck, when I was in high school we had a both a hunting club and a gun club that were school sanctioned...... in California.

Tell me things are not changing.

Marc

It's 2017. The support only goes as far as our actions, via our posting of tasteful or non tasteful content.

We need to learn from our mistakes. Cecil the lion(100% legal hunt), Bowmar and his spear etc. Fact is social media can destroy us or exemplify us in our battle.

My post history supports 100% The good Doctor and Josh in his self made spear quest
. I thought it was awesome, a guy made his own spear and took a bear with it. His content just got spear hunting band in that province. He looked like a raging crazy mindless idiot in his film to non-hunters, apparently. I get his emotion, you get his emotion but non hunters didn't, hence the ban.
If he would of done a better documentary type experience, the public reaction would of been completely different.

I still support both those guys 100%, But both are perfect examples of the anti's abilities to manipulate social media perceptions