Ego check

[Irrelevant]

Let's discuss some dirty laundry.

 

[cgasner1]

The whole truth and the guys I’m about to head to ak with better hope that tent has 2 doors

 

[Potsie]

Speaking for myself, some stories just aren’t that interesting, and don’t need to be told.

 

[Irrelevant]

better hope that tent has 2 doors

I don't understand that metaphor

 

[Forkyfinder]

Youre going to get no answes on 2 & 3

Jmho

 

[TOGIE]

if you're not willing to tell the whole truth of a story gotta perhaps reflect on a few things. i'll admit to having left out minor details before on two hunts i can think of that i posted about.

like for example, on my buck last year, i actually shot him three times, not the one shot i implied or simply said (i don't exactly remember what i said). the reality is, i was so surprised to find a decent buck and had so little time to hunt last fall, that i wanted him dead badly. he didn't act hit on the first shot so i freaked out and went full "till the spirits in the sky" mode and touched em off till he laid down. turns out, all three were good hits.

for some reason i just didn't add that detail. felt poor for the story flow, i dunno. i do think a lot of things can be properly left out for telling a good flowing story that isn't full of minutiae and painful details. but i think the raw honesty of how things actually go is what makes hunting stories so compelling and, conversely, so sterile if left out.

let us all commit - if we feel there are things we wanna leave out when we publicly tell a story, that's a sign of perhaps needed reflection, then nut up and tell the story. or perhaps don't, so you don't get a citation, then reflect on yourself even harder.

 

[cgasner1]

I don't understand that metaphor

Go read the trt thread

 

[Irrelevant]

Youre going to get no answes on 2 & 3

Jmho

Which is complete and utter BS, because MOST people are in those camps

 

[Ben Lamb]

Everything on the Internet is true.

#2

 

[gouch]

I tend to include some small amount of, shall we say, "embellishing." Because the story probably isn't all that interesting to start with.

 

[TOGIE]

i guess i should say, if revision and omissions don't really tarnish or hide the truth of what happened, then they're fine, that's perfectly normal.

like some people might leave out the explosive morning poop situation they find themselves in on the drive to the trailhead opening day, perhaps from eating a brutally large chipotle burrito for dinner on the way out of town the night before. I, however, personally think those are compelling details to a good hunt story.

 

[Nameless Range]

For the most part, #1. And sometimes #2.

Speaking of #2 and # 2s, I certainly omit things. Like I'm not gonna write about navigating the urgent and incendiary metamorphic conglomeration that was the previous night's 10 Coors Originals and a chicken fried steak when I'm halfway up the mountain and my 10 year old son becomes scarred for life when over half of his human senses are overrun as violently as Omaha Beach by his proximity to my situation - and his soul ain't the allies in that example.

That's just a story for Nameless Range and the boy's future therapist.

 

[TOGIE]

Speaking of #2 and # 2s, I certainly omit things. Like I'm not gonna write about navigating the urgent and incendiary metamorphic conglomeration that was the previous night's 10 Coors Originals and a chicken fried steak when I'm halfway up the mountain and my 10 year old son becomes scarred for life when over half of his human senses are overrun as violently as Omaha Beach by his proximity to my situation - and his soul ain't the allies in that example.

my man, i vehemently disagree. this is the essence of a compelling hunt narrative. see above

 

[Nameless Range]

my man, i vehemently disagree. this is the essence of a compelling hunt narrative. see above

I wrote that before I saw your post.

 

[recon6036]

My chit’s boring….nothing to report here!

 

[marksjeep]

poop thread

2 and 4.

2 - Omissions and revisions are edits, and edits are needed to make stories read well.
4 - Because I haven't done a write up in a few years. As they lay thread tells the tale.

 

[Addicting]

Whole truth, it is what it is and if you don’t like it, you don’t have to read it.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

I definitely lie to make myself look good.

 

[El Jason]

The only thing I lie about is where I was at.

 

[Irrelevant]

So my lil cuz, tagged along with a big name influencer on a hunt, because it's a hard to draw tag that he'd like to have so he figured hang out with a cool guy and get some first person experience in the unit, maybe even a bit of meat.

The amount of shit that happened that got cut out is ridiculous. Which I'm sure many, if not most people would believe. But is still disappointing.

then I just wrapped up helping a buddy with a quality hard to draw tag here in WA, and sure as shit there was a influencer with the tag too. And damn if the IG story is about the exact opposite as what happened with his hunt.

All I can blame it on is ego...