Hipster hunting

[Manosteel]

My daughter and step daughter are basically hipsters or close enough to it that a lot of their friends are. This past year a few of them were asking me questions about my hunting and showing some genuine interest, I thought they were just doing the "be nice to the friends parents" thing.

Then I see this article.. Ethical killing: Hipsters, hippies and women are taking up hunting


http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/...ederated=1&utm_source&utm_medium&utm_campaign


So I asked my daughters about it and true enough some of their friends have taken Hunters Ed and plan on hunting this year (apparently they have become the "pseudo experts" of their group since they grew up camping and were around me hunting since their we're babies. Lol)

Anyway, their guy friends aren't exactly the definition of a guys "guy", but hey skinny jeans may become the new thing in the woods!
I do recall seeing pics of Luke Moffat sporting the skinnies in Portland. Lol

 

[Buster]

I'm sure you're gonna make a great role model and mentor for them. Even a hunter in skinny jeans is still one more person on the right side of argument.

 

[dotman]

I knew Luke would start a trend

 

[rodney482]

Skinny kuiu pants.... Lol

 

[squeekieslayer]

I have an old pair of first like kanabs that fit like skinny jeans.

Joe

 

[Robpr]

Hunters are a dying breed that's for sure. I say point everyone our direction that you can.

 

[colonel00]

I can see it now...gone are the days of Take your Daughter to Work Days and now is the time for Take your Hipster Hunting Days

 

[AK Troutbum]

Hunters are a dying breed that's for sure. I say point everyone our direction that you can.

Not in Alaska. Hunters are a killing breed up here. LOL

 

[Ironman8]

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[Shrek]

It's good news. I saw one comment on another article that is similar that said the diy local hipsters may become the new wave of small government libertarians. We can only hope. I'm not all that touchy feely about killing animals so the whole drama about thanking the animals and stuff is a little too sappy but if that is what it takes then thank away. I do like the part about how the girl used to just go to the woods but not see the environment but once she started to hunt a switch flipped in her head and she noticed everything. I always struggle to convey the I feeling of when I'm being a predator.

 

[Robpr]

Not in Alaska. Hunters are a killing breed up here. LOL

I don't doubt it up there. I live in Cali I gotta explain why I hunt all the time. I will add that it's hard to get new people into the sport in this state where success does not come easy. So people are less likely to take up something that is difficult to succeed in.

 

[wawhitey]

Hunters are a dying breed that's for sure. I say point everyone our direction that you can.

thats the attitude to have if you want people to still be able to hunt down the road a piece. encourage anybody, even if they do wear skinny pants or have lame floppy haircuts. better than having them vote your rights away

 

[Manosteel]

I agree with getting more people into hunting and like most here getting me talking about gear and tactics isn't hard, it's harder to get me to shut up about it.

The fact that these young people want to do it without leaving a big footprint in the woods is something I can support (I really dislike atv and truck hunting, hence my attraction to the mountains where motorized vehicle use is usually prohibited, if not impossible), these guys want to do it on foot or with their mountain bikes. What is funny is that I have been preaching to coworkers for years how I am the only one in the office who truly eats free ranging, grass fed, non-steroidly, organic meat , be it fish or beef

 

[5MilesBack]

What the heck is a hipster? I'm thinking someone who carries, with a hip holster.

 

[Rucker61]

thats the attitude to have if you want people to still be able to hunt down the road a piece. encourage anybody, even if they do wear skinny pants or have lame floppy haircuts. better than having them vote your rights away

They've already got hunting beards, so they got that going for them.

 

[KHNC]

They've already got hunting beards, so they got that going for them.

Right on ! Agreed!

 

[Ray]

The recovering vegetarian states: “I want my meat to be grass-finished, and killed as ethically as possible,” she said. “As much as I firmly believe in the necessity of animal protein and saturated fats, the commercial stuff is all toxic.”

This shows that the hipster crowd needs a better education about what words and phases mean. Grass-finished is a feed lot cow that is fed grass the last month or weeks of its life in an attempt to "cleanse" the meat. Its simply bogus. Just like the word "natural" on a food package. Meaningless marketing jargon. She wants pastured cow meat, not grass finished. Grass-fed is second to pastured as it is still potentially a feed lot cow that was not raised on corn feed.

From the last page: Based on the sales of species permits issued by the government, the number of hunters who shoot trophy animals is dwarfed by the group that hunt for food — deer, elk, moose and game birds.

So in Canada there is a food deer permit system and a trophy deer permit system? If you have a buck deer harvest permit and you shoot a buck with 200 inches of antler can you no longer eat the meat? A bull elk with over 390 inches of antler can't be consumed? Just, what, I don't even, what does this statement even mean?

I myself may be escorting a hipster into caribou hunting this fall thanks to my ex-wife. The kid has yet to call me and arrange a meeting to talk about his goals. I'll be looking for some trophy tenderloins myself.

 

[RockBridge]

I thought this thread was about hunting actual hipsters. Consider me disappointed.

 

[William Hanson (live2hunt)]

I thought this thread was about hunting actual hipsters. Consider me disappointed.

That would've been so much better

 

[husky390]

What the heck is a hipster? I'm thinking someone who carries, with a hip holster.

Here you go Mike. They can also be seen wearing a murse (man purse) and drinking a 12 pack of PBR.