What wrong with showing pics in 'the hunt' of shot annimals that show blood?

[4v50 Gary]

How'd this happen? Don't see any damage on the grill and did this sucker just leap through the windshield (look at the hind-legs). Geez, I'd hate to be the driver.

Personally I love gentle woodland creatures like the deer. I love them so much that I invite them home to dinner with me. Of course, on my terms (bow or arrow & not by car) and yes, they are the main course.

I do recall a recent thread in our hunting forum where someone posted a pic of a bunny he shot. The member took out the "blood" and I posted that that wasn't necessary.

 

[AZTOY]

4v50 Gary

The guy was fine.He had a small cut .(look at his head)

 

[4v50 Gary]

Ohhhhhh!

There's blood on his head, now I'm going to faint.

Did the driver describe what happened and can you share it?

 

[Drjones]

The article that I read on this mishap stated the deer was running over an overpass when it was spooked by another vehicle and in it's panic it jump over the side of the over pass onto the Durango. Probably a 14 foot fall. The head and neck probably hit the roof and the body weight momentum probably carried it into the cab - no passengers and no one was injured.

 

[M67]

TFL flashback

I posted this one in the "Durango-season" thread back there too. Smaller car, bigger deer. The article that accompanied this said that none of the four people in the car were (seriously) injured. It didn't say whether their underwear survived, though.

 

[Okiecruffler]

I hit a deer once while driving a Subaru station wagon with much the same result. You just haven't lived until you've been driving down te road, minding your own business, and suddenly there's a deer in your passenger seat. Luckily it was a company vehicle.

Another question. I've checked my reloading manuals, my Shooter's Bibles, and my Gun Digest, but I can't find the answer. Just what is the muzzle energy of a Durango? How about drop at 100yrds?

 

[PATH]

Well the pictures sre pretty gruesome but neat. Hunting involves blood and I saay steaks are best medium rare.

 

[John Galt]

Cart Wt Vel Energy
grn fps fpe
.22lr 40 1255 139
45acp 230 880 396
223 40 3700 1216
30-06 180 2750 3022

Durango 35000000 88 602137

200X more energy than a 30-06, but doesn't move very fast. Not much "splatter" effect, but lots of energy.

 

[bedlamite]

Yeah, but I bet the taylor KO is astronomical.

 

[coati]

These pictures are all posted along with the veracity of the story on Snopes.com. The Durango driver was one fortunate guy.

It's kind of the ultimate safety lesson about overdriving your headlights in rut season (but that's not what happened here).

 

[Don Gwinn]

SASNoFear, I share Mal's puzzlement. You've been ranting about this silly "no blood in the photos" rule for a day now. I admit that when you first posted it, I thought "well, he has a point. That doesn't really make sense."

But then Mal asked you why you're so angry, given that there's no rule about blood in pictures in the hunting forum. I looked too. I didn't find any such rule, nor did I find any thread you started, in which you might have been warned to stop posting such pictures. It has now been a day since Mal asked you what you're so upset about, and you haven't yet shared it with us. What's the problem?

 

[4v50 Gary]

Wait a minute John Gait, are you saying that this proves big slow objects stop more effectively than fast, high velocity objects?

 

[Okiecruffler]

See, I was always right, slow and heavy is the way to go. Now we just need some real street data or maybe a goat test or two on the Durango. Then we can get published in car and driver magazine.


What was the original question again?

 

[Roadrunner]

It seems like only recently (last couple of years) that these shows actually showed the bullet or shot impact on the animals. In the past, just before the shot, the camera angle would change to the hunter, not the animal. The only exception to this are the duck and upland bird hunting shows "Hunting with Hank."

 

[45R]

The guy probably made off with steaks and a check from insurance for a new Dodge. WOW

 

[Sactown]

I agree with Roadrunner, it seems only recently that you see the animal get shot.

I especially like the "hunts" where the "hunter" sits in the heated guard tower thing in the middle of a clear field and waits for the animals to come into the clearing. The "hunter" is always proclaiming, "Man, that was a great hunt". Uh, ok.

 

[Thumper]

To answer the original question, I've always understood that harvested game photos shouldn't show blood and the tongue should be placed back in the animal's mouth and not hanging out.

The reason for this is to show some level of respect for the animal.

No recriminations here, but you either get that or you don't.

 

[spacemanspiff]

this reminds me...i was watching an outdoors program a few weeks back, they were hunting deer, and for some idiotic reason, they blacked out the animal just as it was being shot and dropped.
whats the point of taping a show about hunting if the entire scene is ruined by a censored patch right at the key moment?

 

[sasnofear]

sorry Mal H, i didn't spot ur question.

i saw a pic of someone posting a shot rabbit & rifle with square grey bit over the rabbit and the autor of the thread saying somethink like "i covered the blood i hope this is ok administrators?"

so i thought it was not allowed and thats why i started this thread!

 

[4v50 Gary]

sasnofear: I originally responded to that question about the rabbit and suggested leaving the picture unretouched. It's a hunting picture and it's not like Elmer Fudd went out with an axe and cleaved the critter's head off - after a couple of clumsy attempts. Now that would be a different story.

 

[TallPine]

Picture driving down the freeway and hitting a falling dear. whoa!

Sign on the highway:

"Watch for falling deer - Next 5 miles"

 

[Keith]

Is there a formula comparing the ballistics and knock-down power of various vehicles?

I've always maintained that a standard US pick-up truck is ballistically superior to other vehicles because of the weight, and of course the large meplat which helps deliver more kinetic energy to the target.

However, it can be argued that a lighter, faster spire-pointed vehicle might have certain advantages as well, but perhaps such a vehicle would be over-penetrative?

Some of the new imported sub-compacts hold great promise since they are essentially hollow-points, but I don't know how fast it has to be going to get decent expansion.

Anybody want to get together and drive vehicles into ballstic gelatin as an experiment.. or maybe goats would be better?

Keith

 

[TheActor]

I like watching hunting shows since I don't get to do much myself lately. It is pretty lame to see obvous "canned" hunts though. I watched a couple of yahoos elk hunting actually walk within 15 yards of a obviously tame bull and shoot it with an arrow that was sticking halfway out of it as it walked off. That's not hunting.