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Why do hunting product names.... #5494222 12/23/14 03:17 AM
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Get dumber and dumber? It's so bad that I will avoid products because I'm not willing to tell someone I killed my deer with a Swhacker broadhead. Can't do it. The Butt Out works great, you say? That's alright. I've got a knife and a shred of dignity.

If you've got a good product, then don't ruin it with a stupid name.

This current trend reminds me of modern country music.

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Re: Why do hunting product names.... [Re: Sneaky] #5494273 12/23/14 03:35 AM
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Don't remind me. I'm still sore about that one.

Seriously, though, it can't get much worse than that. Can it?

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It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


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We bought a Butt Out. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I felt like I was going to violate the deer.
It just lays around the cleaning station, it never has been used. Its a great conversation piece.


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Re: Why do hunting product names.... [Re: Nogalus Prairie] #5494417 12/23/14 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


Yeah, just look at what's on TV. I can't even begin to describe what I saw on one of those redneck shows the other day before I made my coworker change the channel.

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Sneaky, go back to your room until you can come out with a better attitude! grin

Seriously, I think NP is on to something, plus it takes more imagination now that the easy names have been taken.


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Adding the word "tactical" to the model names of flashlights and anything meant to be used with a firearm has worked wonders.


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Manufacturers are just expanding their product base to match their target markets.


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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


Sad to say its true.

I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "

There is nothing thuggish about a Caucasian male who is 40 lbs overweight sitting in a stand trying to shoot a deer. Not one damn thing

Give me a Craig boddington show any day. It seems there has been a division of classes so to speak between the "upper eschelon" type hunters who belong to SCI and B&C and can form a complete sentence and speak intelligently and the "aww shucks I just whacked me a forkhorn" guys who it seems 90% of the market is catered to

I see one more deer or pig skull graphic on the stock of a synthetic rifle I'm gonna puke. This isn't world of Warcraft it's called hunting

I will distance myself frm these types in any way I can


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Don't forget the king and queen of tools Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan are on the buck commander shows


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Originally Posted By: txtrophy85
I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "


I bought a 243 a few months ago and just wanted to find a box of ammo to site it in with. The only 243 ammo I could find at 2 academys and 3 wallmarts was Deer thugs ammo... and I almost didn't buy it because of that. I still aggravates me.


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Originally Posted By: txtrophy85
I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "


I bought a 243 a few months ago and just wanted to find a box of ammo to site it in with. The only 243 ammo I could find at 2 academys and 3 wallmarts was Deer thugs ammo... and I almost didn't buy it because of that. I still aggravates me.


If they start chambering deer thug ammo in .257 wby I'm gonna throw the rifle away


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Originally Posted By: txtrophy85
Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


Sad to say its true.

I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "

There is nothing thuggish about a Caucasian male who is 40 lbs overweight sitting in a stand trying to shoot a deer. Not one damn thing

Give me a Craig boddington show any day. It seems there has been a division of classes so to speak between the "upper eschelon" type hunters who belong to SCI and B&C and can form a complete sentence and speak intelligently and the "aww shucks I just whacked me a forkhorn" guys who it seems 90% of the market is catered to

I see one more deer or pig skull graphic on the stock of a synthetic rifle I'm gonna puke. This isn't world of Warcraft it's called hunting

I will distance myself frm these types in any way I can


There is a third group. Just ordinary guys who hunt and love to fellowship, but think all the high- fiving/giggling/commercialization junk is stupid-which it is.

Are you over hating me yet? I can't sleep at night. smile

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Originally Posted by Russ79
I learned long ago you can't reason someone out of something they don't reason themselves into.


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It's the whole vernacular.

Don't forget about:

Food plots, or any other feed for that matter, now referred to as "groceries."

Having shot a deer, they "smoked him".

Also, after having shot a deer, "We're going to back out, play it safe, give him some time, and come back in the morning."

I've just summed up 99% of outdoor TV and probably 60% of the hunting community. This is the origin of the aforementioned products. The names have to catch the targeted demographic.

And count me in NP's third group.


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Originally Posted By: kry226
It's the whole vernacular.

Don't forget about:

Food plots, or any other feed for that matter, now referred to as "groceries."

Having shot a deer, they "smoked him".

Also, after having shot a deer, "We're going to back out, play it safe, give him some time, and come back in the morning."

I've just summed up 99% of outdoor TV and probably 60% of the hunting community. This is the origin of the aforementioned products. The names have to catch the targeted demographic.

And count me in NP's third group.
Agreed. That really gets my blood boiling when they 'back out' to look for him in the morning. Ruined meat is 'Wanton waste of game'. mad


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Does this third group support AR's and high fences? peep

Just like anything else, the third group majority gets out played by the top and the bottom in the media


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Originally Posted By: txtrophy85
Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


Sad to say its true.

I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "

There is nothing thuggish about a Caucasian male who is 40 lbs overweight sitting in a stand trying to shoot a deer. Not one damn thing

Give me a Craig boddington show any day. It seems there has been a division of classes so to speak between the "upper eschelon" type hunters who belong to SCI and B&C and can form a complete sentence and speak intelligently and the "aww shucks I just whacked me a forkhorn" guys who it seems 90% of the market is catered to

I see one more deer or pig skull graphic on the stock of a synthetic rifle I'm gonna puke. This isn't world of Warcraft it's called hunting

I will distance myself frm these types in any way I can


as a small defense to the show, which I don't like, THUG's actually stands for Todays Hunters United for Good, if that makes it any better.


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If I send my neighbors a text and ask them to give me feedback on my lawn and plant rye into a giant dong pattern, I'm probably going to get some less than positive feedback. Same goes here.
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Originally Posted By: Nogalus Prairie
It's the Bro Country syndrome.

Apparently most young folks today are very shallow and impressionable. That's all I got.


Sad to say its true.

I lost all respect for the mainstream hunting industry when I saw a advertisement for a show called "deer thugs "

There is nothing thuggish about a Caucasian male who is 40 lbs overweight sitting in a stand trying to shoot a deer. Not one damn thing

Give me a Craig boddington show any day. It seems there has been a division of classes so to speak between the "upper eschelon" type hunters who belong to SCI and B&C and can form a complete sentence and speak intelligently and the "aww shucks I just whacked me a forkhorn" guys who it seems 90% of the market is catered to

I see one more deer or pig skull graphic on the stock of a synthetic rifle I'm gonna puke. This isn't world of Warcraft it's called hunting

I will distance myself frm these types in any way I can


as a small defense to the show, which I don't like, THUG's actually stands for Todays Hunters United for Good, if that makes it any better.


A little, actually. The acronym is still dumb, however. Sometimes, you just have to come up with a better name than that.

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What you guys don't realize is that these names are being generated by the "redneck" divisions of major marketing firms on Wall Street. I'm sure these names have been focus group tested and vetted for maximum product recognition.


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What you guys don't realize is that these names are being generated by the "redneck" divisions of major marketing firms on Wall Street. I'm sure these names have been focus group tested and vetted for maximum product recognition.


That's what scares me the most.

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