A few years ago I hunted with a friend who killed a big buck. I went back to my truck to get my Nikon camera and by the time I returned, he’d sent digital images to all of his friends. Social media is so prevalent that many hunters carry their hero shots and trail camera takes as well. Although social media can make hunting pictures easier to take and share, keep these four points in mind:
20 years ago, when you took a picture of the deer you killed – or recorded your hunt on a VHS tape – or ranted about a hunting issue that bothered you, the only people who ever saw or heard about it were your close friends and family. But thanks to social media, those deer hunting photos, videos and rants today have the potential to end up in front of millions of strange eyes all across the world. Many times those strangers seeing a photo of a dead deer or a video of a hunt are seeing these things from a very different perspective than you or I. And whether we like to think about it or not, this fact of the social-media age could have a significant impact on the future of hunting.
With this being the case, the responsibility is increasingly being placed on us as individual hunters to be careful about what we’re sharing on social media. We in the hunting community are a minority and are only able to hunt because the non-hunting public allows it, or at least doesn’t feel negatively enough about what we do to vote it out of existence. But if we fail to represent ourselves properly to the wider world, this could quickly change. With that said, here are four simple steps to follow next time you’re posting hunting content on social media that will help ensure that what you’re posting is helping our cause as hunters, rather than hurting it.
https://nationaldeeralliance.com/editorial/4-steps-to-a-perfect-hunting-social-media-post
