Ego check

[MTTW]

The internet can't handle the whole truth. There are examples on here regularly

 

[Mica Man]

I'm of the opinion that a well taken photo can conger up more intrest than some of the long drawn out reads some folks tend to post on here.
I've posted stories on here in the past but now just tend to post photos. I believe more people should look up some of @Oak 's old elk hunting stories for inspiration for their future story threads.

 

[cgasner1]

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...

I don’t think it’s ego with that. It’s selling the story and trying to make it look easy because all these influencers are assassins and punching tags is easy.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

IDK a story that includes explosive diarrhea in tent next to us in middle of night will never do it justice. No audio, no odor, no cussing, visual of cot being throw out of tent. Horses going nuts. Wranglers yelling. Cook yelling no sleep no breakfast.

No embellishment yet.

 

[Nameless Range]

I just went back through and read some of my hunting shares. My hunting is not that impressive so there’s no lying really.

Not to derail, but I do love when someone shares what they were thinking on a hunt or how it made them feel as opposed to simply a play-by-play. I suppose those things could be lies, but I think they are mostly often true.

Take for example Buzz’s most recent mountain Caribou Hunt share. Great play-by-play and photos and a big critter, but he wrote a short paragraph at the end that my brain has gotten more mileage out of than the rest of it all combined.

“If I had it to do over again after seeing that country, the wildlife, and opportunities that still exist in the Yukon, I would do whatever it would take to move there. No debate, no question. It's a lot like what the U.S. used to be and will absolutely never be again. I hope they continue to cherish and preserve/conserve what they have and not squander it like the U.S. has.”

That’s the stuff I like and it doesn’t really require embellishment or omitting. Though I value truth, I do suppose there are stories that from a strategical perspective could hurt hunting more than harm it.

 

[Elky Welky]

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.

I agree with this. I don't really care about what someone had for breakfast before they went hunting, unless it is important to the story. Concise writing is more fun to read. So I voted for 2.

Though for the most part I don't feel a strong need to share, but it doesn't have anything to do with Matt Rinella or any other hunting influencer. Lots of hunting stories are simply better shared around a campfire with those who remember it too.

 

[ashersdad]

I'm never going to lie when I tell about a hunt. However, I definitely omit things that may be personal to me and I often omit details/pictures that would give up my location. Some people are just really gifted story tellers and I am envious about how well they can express what they experienced on a hunt. That's a skill I don't have, so my stories are more brief. But, I still like to tell them.

 

[Schaaf]

My last hunting recap included a detailed description of how I almost pooped my pants twice- so make of that what you will. I’m pretty damn cool but I’m also a straight shooter.

 

[RealMuddyboots]

I'm really not sure how to read this?

My last hunting recap included a detailed description of how I almost pooped my pants twice- so make of that what you will. I’m pretty damn cool but I’m also a straight shooter.

 

[Schaaf]

I'm really not sure how to read this?

 

[Gellar]

It’s always 10 degrees colder, the snow always blows sideways, we really drank 3 bottles of whiskey instead of 5 and 37 beers total, not 37 degrees each. The vertically challenged entertainers were really 4.5s not 8.5s

 

[Lostinthewoods]

I’m an open book. It embarrasses me when I mess up, but it forces me to step up and suck less.

Monday was opening day here in Missouri. I shot over the back of what would have been my largest buck ever.

I want to puke because I put in all this hard work, get in bow range first sit, THEN SUCKED!

I’ve ran live threads before and told people when I had wounded an elk.

Id take an honest person trying any day of the week.

 

[brockel]

I can’t tell a hunting story to save my life unless I have a few beers in me then you better grab a seat

 

[Oak]

I'm of the opinion that a well taken photo can conger up more intrest than some of the long drawn out reads some folks tend to post on here.
I've posted stories on here in the past but now just tend to post photos. I believe more people should look up some of @Oak 's old elk hunting stories for inspiration for their future story threads.

Don’t start some nasty rumor that I have stooped to hunting elk.

 

[Gerald Martin]

I never lie.
I write the narrative with the factual portions that convey what I am trying to communicate in my story.

For example, what I might be trying to communicate is that I have learned a lesson about not shooting further than my ability and I might include the facts that it took multiple shots, or I missed, or had a less than ideal first shot.

Other times I might be wanting to convey something else about that same hunt and may be brief and include only the conclusion of the matter rather than all the facts about how it happened.

IMO, what an author chooses to include or exclude from his narrative is his prerogative as long as he’s not misrepresenting the factual events in an attempt to portray what happened in a materially different manner.

 

[Nick87]

Wife says im too honest most the time.

 

[SaskHunter]

I tell the truth but don't post as much as I used to.

Exhibit A) https://www.hunttalk.com/threads/chaffing-wapiti-an-august-archery-elk-hunting-story.301235/

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the nasty details. My azz still chafes thinking about it.

 

[Irrelevant]

I'm of the opinion that a well taken photo can conger up more intrest than some of the long drawn out reads some folks tend to post on here.
I've posted stories on here in the past but now just tend to post photos. I believe more people should look up some of @Oak 's old elk hunting stories for inspiration for their future story threads.

I was a big fan of Oak's mt goat hunt thread.

 

[Bullshot]

I have not a single story that can compare with the outrageous successes and adventures that various people on here have. So if I do tell my boring stories, about small fish or average animals, I tell them truthfully because they are as meaningful as I've got and are achievable by literally anyone who tries and does what I do. In this way, my actual peer-audience reading of a boring east coast spike buck hunt or an unsuccessful OTC elk hunt is actually better able to relate to this reality and enjoy that kinship. I'll never have a mountain caribou or musk ox or dall sheep tale, no matter how much I exaggerate. But honest boring details for the everyman hunter, yes, that I can still do.

 

[Irrelevant]

Other times I might be wanting to convey something else about that same hunt and may be brief and include only the conclusion of the matter rather than all the facts about how it happened.

While you may never lie, the result can be the same.