Hawk Tuah
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I see what you're saying, but was coming at a different angle.I understand not wanting to show your child. I have a daughter and am very protective. Im sorry that she had to experience that. Shit like that needs to stop.
My thoughts on if youre an adult are different. This is a hunting forum and you arent going to be blasted for hunting pictures like that on here. Also, if your friend circle would put you, as an adult on blast for hunting, id think about finding a different friend group. Personal opinion, of course. I also dont care what other people think about my hobbies, so things dont affect me like that. I guess i would post an "as they lay" photo over plastering a silly emoji over my face.
Thank you for responding and showing me a different perspective, though. I was curious as to why I see blured photos. To each their own.
I'm not worried about HuntTalkers, and I'm not worried at all about my friend group...but this is a completely public forum available to all 7 billion people on Earth. The people that found my daughter's photo go around looking for photos like that to post and attempt to get people in "trouble" publicly. I have a public job, and hold off posting photos of some species I've hunted, particularly African game. Of course they found my kid's photo of a ten-year-old struggling to hold up a big lion with a big smile and went from there.
I live in Idaho. A lady a few years ago had a photo put on the front page of the local newspaper of her and a dead giraffe. She worked at a university and was somehow in hot water. She kept her job, but I think it was a pain in the butt for her. And this is Idaho.
All I'm saying is that there are people out looking for ways to attempt to use kill photos to shame or get people "in trouble"...whatever that looks like. Likely, an elk photo wouldn't be a low hanging fruit...until some "pet" elk named "Teddy" or "George" is shot when it steps out of Yellowstone or RMNP and ends up on CNN. Then all elk hunters are evil.
I don't have shame in what I kill, but don't want posting the wrong thing hurting my career. It doesn't matter if it is legal or whatever...if it falls out of public favor and you have a public, visible job, who knows? And I hate that my daughter's name can be googled and that is the first thing that shows up. Will it cost her a job someday? Idk. And obviously, like you said, the kid thing is different.
That being said, I am just happy a "just joined for advice" guy actually came back and followed up. This is about as rare as a Sasquatch riding a unicorn sighting.
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