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Anyone actual job or public appearance completely surprised others that your passion is hunting?

gcr0003 said:
I had a navy seal tell me about the experiments his team did for medical training on hogs. Basically they go and shoot and stab them and then go in and try to save the hogs using whatever medical stuff they have at their disposal. Absolutely insane.
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Short of relying on knowledge obtained by some other country commuting horrendous human rights violations...that's about the only surefire but "nice" way to figure that stuff out.
 
gcr0003 said:
I had a navy seal tell me about the experiments his team did for medical training on hogs. Basically they go and shoot and stab them and then go in and try to save the hogs using whatever medical stuff they have at their disposal. Absolutely insane.
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Just WOW!

Yeah I have absolutely been shocked by someone telling me they hunt. I was shocked because I would have never guessed it with the profession they were in or how they dressed. However, when I look at myself in the mirror I would say the same. I've hunted most of my life. Shooting critters long before I was legally allowed to. I also grew up snowboarding, skateboarding, loving the beach life etc. and to this day still dabble. Grew up on 90's country music but strongly dislike todays country music. I listen to reggae music non-stop like bands Stick Figure, Dirty Heads, Rebelution and Tribal Seeds. I've also seen all them in concert with a weird looking and funny smelling smoke amongst the crowd. I have learned early on that you do not have to look like a hunter to be a passionate hunter. Hunters come from all walks of life and is the reason I am friends with some of the friends I have in my life. Without hunting in common we don't have anything in common. Pretty amazing what the hunting community is made up of.
 
gcr0003 said:
I had a navy seal tell me about the experiments his team did for medical training on hogs. Basically they go and shoot and stab them and then go in and try to save the hogs using whatever medical stuff they have at their disposal. Absolutely insane.
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Oh no! I'm sorry fellas, wasn't able to save this 1. I tried to be very bestest of my abilities. Soooo sorry

Anyway...
Who's hungry?
 
Hall17 said:
However, when I look at myself in the mirror I would say the same. I've hunted most of my life. Shooting critters long before I was legally allowed to. I also grew up snowboarding, skateboarding, loving the beach life etc. and to this day still dabble. Grew up on 90's country music but strongly dislike todays country music. of.
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Add scurfing and later wake boarding and you just described me as well. As an electrical engineer by degree and an IT professional by trade, I’m definitely in the minority as a hunter as well.


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MIPublic said:
I might wear an old camo vest or something over to my grandparent's or uncle's house if we're just shooting the breeze or doing work on the farm, but other than that I'm not one to wear it out in public.

100% legit though, my fiance really likes Badland's approach FX pattern and says I should wear it more often so....
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She’s a keeper!!!


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Gator said:
Add scurfing and later wake boarding and you just described me as well. As an electrical engineer by degree and an IT professional by trade, I’m definitely in the minority as a hunter as well.


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Don’t call yourself a minority lol just think of you and guys like you as ahead of the curve ;)
Everyone else just hasn’t caught up yet
 
BTaylor said:
Camo is my favorite color but they wont let me wear it at work.
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The company I work for actually makes camo hats with their logo on it! I can’t ever seem to get one though because my manager seems to only ever order us polo shirts even though we work in the field and get very dirty lol like here’s a shiny new polo and we are all like really? Where are we ever gonna wear that :sweatsmile:
 
Professionally, not really. I'm a CFO of a peanut butter company in South GA (PB2) so it's not super surprising. My boss and coworkers learned a long time ago that golf isn't my thing and I'm ok not being invited. We did a 3 day guided quail hunt for our leadership team last year that I set up and even our non-hunters enjoyed it.

With that said, I don't live in a super "outdoorsy" community. I live on a barrier island of GA that's mostly made up of old rich people. I can remember one day a few years ago after a successful afternoon hunt, my son and I had to stop by the grocery store on the way home. We were both still in camo. I was stopped by a rich old white lady to tell me that "our matching outfits were cute".

I also stopped one morning on the way to work to check on an older gentlemen in a Tesla who was standing over a dead deer in the road. He was balling his eyes out. I checked on him and checked on the damage to his car (there was none). He proceeded to tell me that he had not hit the deer but that his wife saw it get hit and sent him to check on it. It was dead, and had been, but he was just so sad that the deer had died. I laughed, and without missing a beat, I threw it in the back of my truck and drove off (I wanted it to blood track train a dog I had). I can still remember his mortified look in my rear view mirror.
 
ssramage said:
Professionally, not really. I'm a CFO of a peanut butter company in South GA (PB2) so it's not super surprising. My boss and coworkers learned a long time ago that golf isn't my thing and I'm ok not being invited. We did a 3 day guided quail hunt for our leadership team last year that I set up and even our non-hunters enjoyed it.

With that said, I don't live in a super "outdoorsy" community. I live on a barrier island of GA that's mostly made up of old rich people. I can remember one day a few years ago after a successful afternoon hunt, my son and I had to stop by the grocery store on the way home. We were both still in camo. I was stopped by a rich old white lady to tell me that "our matching outfits were cute".

I also stopped one morning on the way to work to check on an older gentlemen in a Tesla who was standing over a dead deer in the road. He was balling his eyes out. I checked on him and checked on the damage to his car (there was none). He proceeded to tell me that he had not hit the deer but that his wife saw it get hit and sent him to check on it. It was dead, and had been, but he was just so sad that the deer had died. I laughed, and without missing a beat, I threw it in the back of my truck and drove off (I wanted it to blood track train a dog I had). I can still remember his mortified look in my rear view mirror.
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Man, I love peanut butter almost as much as hunting! What a job. As far as camo, not at work,LOL. $60 million dollar jets and camo don’t get along well. It’s always fun to talk with private jet owners or representatives that hunt. I keep a few noticeable items around the office and background of my iPad that will trigger a conversation. But a have been known to sneak in the occasional Kryptek pattern.
 
I was in dental school when Cecil the Lion was killed by some dentist. I’m from a very rural area where everyone hunts and this school was in a big(for KY) urban city. As the story came out one faculty member devoted an entire lecture hour to the horrors of that incident and the evils of hunting. He said as dentists that we should be above the evils of trophy hunting and that it gives the profession a bad name. At least that’s the part I caught between naps in the back row.
The only other guy who really hunted in my class is still one of my best friends and we trade hunts. Elk in Utah and deer in KY.

As a dentist in a rural area I actually see an increased number of toothaches the week right before rifle season starts and pretty steady through it. I think people wait until deer season so they can get a doctors note to miss work and then go sit in the woods. So I like to think I’m popular with the local hunters lol
 
I work for a state agriculture department in the food safety program. The first time my coworkers ever knew I hunt was when we had our Christmas party, everyone brought a dish and I brought venison adobo. They were licking their plates off before someone asked who’s dish and what it was. I casually dropped it was venison and my wife cooked it(adobo is Filipino)and you coulda heard a pin drop before one of the older fellas said well that’s some damn good deer and your wife is a mighty fine cook . Now it’s an annual favorite. I used to bring dishes I cooked now everyone says nah let your wife cook!
 
Haha. This is me every time I tell someone I hunt. I work for a large publicly traded company.
there is definitely a misconception that hunters are identified by , A. Street camo / hat, B. mount in your office, C. Big decals on your pick up.
At a previous job over 10 years ago, working with manufacturers and industrial distributors, I actually received many invites to hunt and met some accomplished and humble hunters.
The only time hunting even comes up now is if I disclose I’m taking off to hunt.
In New England hunting is not as common as an state like PA and among newer hires it’s increasingly becoming a rare pastime / tradition.
 
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