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Stolen valor

thedutchtouch said:
That's why I usually only post photos like this one I took on a recent hunt with myself and my dog in it so nobody can act like it's their pic.
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Lol but in all seriousness, I really don't understand the need for social media cred and likes. It's a bit too much. Stolen valor (of the pretending to be military variety) is even worse.
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Is that you holding the shotgun?
 
thedutchtouch said:
That's why I usually only post photos like this one I took on a recent hunt with myself and my dog in it so nobody can act like it's their pic.
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Lol but in all seriousness, I really don't understand the need for social media cred and likes. It's a bit too much. Stolen valor (of the pretending to be military variety) is even worse.
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Even with a quick crop you could still see some of that nonsense. Like this…
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Marmuzz said:
What?? Say more please
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Long story and don’t want to hijack @Nutterbuster’s thread but I shot a very big buck Saturday, waited about 30 min for my dad who was hunting about 500 yds down the ridge to come up to help. While I was waiting a guy hunting 300 yds from me took off with the deer without even gutting it. Was able to piece what happened together after grid searching the area and talking to another guy on my way out that had some info about it. I didn’t spend a lot of time studying horns before I shot, just saw a big kicker off the left side G2, but the guy I spoke to described it as a “monster 10”.
 
Apparently a really big things now a day is criminal taking pictures that girls post on social media. Photo chopping their head and placing it on a nude picture, then blackmailing the original girl to do things....

Things like this make me worry for my daughters when they grow up.

There is a special place that awaits people that do things like that in hell.
 
Kinda sad.

Sign of our times. Rather get credit for someone else's work than earn it on their own.

Lots of fakes out there. Might be why I'm respected more than I'm liked. Some people hate success unless it's their own. And it's hard for them to continually throw out congrats when they're taking the easy route and coming away with a zero.
 
I wear a ball cap with the insignia of a ship my wife help build for the Navy at our local shipyard. People see it and try to thank me for my service even though I have never served. I always explain to them that my wife builds the best destroyers in the world and that I never served but thank you. I can't even understand how or why anyone would want to take credit for something they didn't earn themselves. smh
 
I seem to get the general felling from a couple of people I know that the most important thing for them is having some picture to post on Farcebook, Instawhatever, etc and that actually hunting is something they want to do as little of as possible. They want people to think if them as successful hunters and they have all the trappings (sometimes a little too much) such as a giant 4x4 truck covered in stickers, a big trailer with a side by side on it and all the clothes to boot but if you look at how much time they actually spend hunting it is really weird. I feel like if they could dress up, run out for 1 hour and bag a 150 inch buck and spend 2 hours taking photos that this would be their ideal season.

Part of the lack of actual hunting time may be the fact that they have to work so much to pay for the $100,000 in "hunting" equipment they are on the hook for. A prime example of this was a friend of a friend in that hunting club I belong too. My buddy told me that the guy just bought a brand-new Ford F150 4x4 so he could hunt. He said, "Man he's crazy to buy that. Think about the payments and insurance." I agreed I would not do it.

A couple of weeks rock by and I ask if so and so has been out any hunting. My buddy smiled and said "No, he had to take on a Saturday shift to help pay for the truck, so he's working and can't hunt.", then he added, "The one time he did come hunt with me he asked if we could take my truck since he didn't want to scratch up his new truck taking it in the woods". The guy hunted maybe 3 or 4 times that season.

I'm just imagining that there is a real temptation to copy and paste others photos to claim some success for yourself when you feel such a strong desire to publicly show your hunting skill but don't want to put in the effort or can't hunt because you have boxed yourself in to having no time due to having to have all the trappings that advertising tells you that you need to be a successful hunter.

Of course, to me, when someone says stolen valor, what comes to mind is people who pretend to the world like they were Navy Seals, or Rangers, etc and never served a day in their lives. Those folks are despicable.
 
A few years ago someone did the same to me. He posted my buck on his FB after already having shot one. Someone called DEC on him thinking he illegally shot another. Apparently when the DEC called him, he said it was a joke and my buddy Mark shot this buck. So then I get a phone call and had to explain to them, I don’t even know that guy, but yes, that is my deer. Such a weird thing to do…. Dummies.
 
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NMSbowhunter said:
They want people to think if them as successful hunters and they have all the trappings (sometimes a little too much) such as a giant 4x4 truck covered in stickers, a big trailer with a side by side on it and all the clothes to boot but if you look at how much time they actually spend hunting it is really weird. I feel like if they could dress up, run out for 1 hour and bag a 150 inch buck and spend 2 hours taking photos that this would be their ideal season.
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So what's the problem with this? ;)
 
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MattMan81 said:
So what's the problem with this?
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Nothing, I guess, if that's what floats their boat. I just think a lot of folks buy into the idea that you can't kill a deer until you spend $100K on the right gear. Then they feel a huge pressure to demonstrate that they are successful and sometimes they resort to lifting other people's pictures off the internet and claiming it for themselves. I think it also sends the wrong message to young hunters that if they don't have such and such clothes of this or that truck, or a side by side that they are somehow not keeping up with the Joneses.
 
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