123 4/8 P&Y Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I am sick of hearing about how people on TV celebrate too much when they shoot something on camera. I genuinely believe that when the guys on TV slap hands and shout after a kill shot, it's just their way of expressing their excitement. I think it's rarely because they are showing off for the camera. When I kill something, I hoot and holler just as much as the most rowdy professional hunters, even if I'm out there by myself. I can't understand how those guys on TV can keep from letting a few obscenities slip out in their excitement. I grunted in a buck for my dad last fall. After he made an excellent shot with his .50 caliber CVA, I couldn't help but let out a war hoop. For everybody out there who doesn't celebrate after a great shot, maybe you should take up some other activity. If you feel like there's something wrong with shouting or slapping hands with your nearest hunting buddy after the moment of truth, then you obviously don't have hunting blood flowing through your vanes. Don't be afraid to get excited guys! Let it out! Trust me, the animal you just shot won't care one way or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoyt03 Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I've only taken one deer before where someone was in the stand with me, it was a straight under the stand shot and it dropped the deer in it's tracks, we did some celebrating. All of my other deer harvests I was by myself and was pumped up but did not yell or anything. I was on a turkey hunt with my cousin where we harvested a good bird and defintely celebrated that one as well. While I don't get carried away I definitely enjoy the moment and celebrating with friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 the first deer i ever shot with my bow i almost fell out of my stand because i was so pumped, and when my cousin shot her first long beard we hooted and hollerd for the longest time. Sometimes you just can't help but get excited but i geuss thats why we do this thing called hunting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest COACH J. Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I celebrate every time and if its a good buck Ill even yell but I hunt with people that stay very calm when they kill one and I dont think that means that they dont love hunting as much as I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardwood_HD Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 i have no problem celebrating after i harvest something, last spring gobblerbuster618 called in a longbeard for me and i got him.. my first bird, trust me there was some hooting and hollering going on.. plus we got it all on film too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest antlerhead Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I am sick of hearing about how people on TV celebrate too much when they shoot something on camera. I genuinely believe that when the guys on TV slap hands and shout after a kill shot, it's just their way of expressing their excitement. I think it's rarely because they are showing off for the camera. When I kill something, I hoot and holler just as much as the most rowdy professional hunters, even if I'm out there by myself. I can't understand how those guys on TV can keep from letting a few obscenities slip out in their excitement. I grunted in a buck for my dad last fall. After he made an excellent shot with his .50 caliber CVA, I couldn't help but let out a war hoop. For everybody out there who doesn't celebrate after a great shot, maybe you should take up some other activity. If you feel like there's something wrong with shouting or slapping hands with your nearest hunting buddy after the moment of truth, then you obviously don't have hunting blood flowing through your vanes. Don't be afraid to get excited guys! Let it out! Trust me, the animal you just shot won't care one way or the other. nothing wrong with a little hollering and yelling after taking a game animal. especially when you have hunted your butt off to get that certain animal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 Well, I'm typically not one to holler, but I do get pretty excited when I kill a deer. I guess we all have our own way of celebrating, but the guys who don't get excited are the ones who kind of irk me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deb Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 If I hunt alone, I celebrate. If I don't hunt alone, I celebrate. Now, I don't get crazy, but I do dance a little and whoop it up a little---not so much they hear me in the next county. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 Nothing wrong with people celebrating a successful hunt. I ain't one to hoop and holler, but that's me. I watch Waddell, Lakosky's, RT, the Primos guys and Mossy Oak guys...have no problems with the way they react after shots. Some people do force it a little, but hey, I don't have to watch em. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonehuntr Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 Its to much of an emotional feeling to keep bottled in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michihunter Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 People in the next county usually know when I've connected!!:D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierbuck Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I get excited, but I don't usually have anyone around to share it with/feed off of, so I don't make much noise. I usually have to sit down before I fall down and swallow my heart that has jumped out of my throat. To me, it feels like a wave is building the whole time I prep and wait for the shot, then it just pauses mid-air while I focus and make the shot, then it breaks and crashes down on me full force, washing over me and leaving me a shaking mess as it recedes. But that might just be me, I dunno. HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 The way I see it, pretty well to each their own. Personally I am a bit more solemn when it comes to taking an animals life. If someone wants to hoop and holler, that is fine, what I dont see as very sporting however is when there is laughing immediately following the shot. Guess I dont see hunting as a comedy or see the extent of the humor that some seem to see fitting. Just my opinion, but think I could do without the laughing that you see from some. Depending on the shot and how confident I am with it, for me usually immediately following a shot on an animal there comes the shakes, the ringing ears, the immediate thanks I give to God, then when I recover the animal I might occasionally express words out loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfisherfd2 Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I definitely celebrate. I can assure you the exact words out of my mouth when I shot my first buck. "Who's your daddy now,B@#$!" but that was a popular phrase at the time. I was out by myself with the deer I got this year. I was also in a ground blind. I didn't say anything. Just stood there and bounced up and down for a little bit. Then sat down to wait until I could get out. But I was really pumped up and couldn't wait to get to my cell phone. phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mule659 Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 When I am with one of by buddies there is always a good bunch of high fives and hollering once we know it's a good shot and the animal is down...and upon recovery. When by myself I am just as pumped but without someone to celibrate with I use all that adrenaline to drag the deer out of the woods alone lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildthing Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I think the emotion is genuine for the most part from the guys on TV...they are deer hunters...you have to love what you do to sit on stand all day in various conditions. I got nuts and high five myself after I harvest an animal with my bow too...can't resist! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosierbuck Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 A thought about the laughing... laughing immediately following the shot. I certainly understand your point, and agree a little bit. I have also been around other emotionally heavy situations and recognize that laughter can be a manifestation of more than just comedy. Often it's basically a nervous reaction. I have seen professional, experienced policemen fight to control a laugh at a crash scene with dead people laying about. They know it's certainly not funny, but that is a scene that takes a lot to deal with, and sometimes it just happens that way. If it can happen at a somber time, how much more likely at a time when you are excited and happy, to boot? OR, it could be that it's a person that is just flat irreverent. Could go either way, but I don't know that I can tell which is which on a hunting video. Regardless of why they do it, you don't have to like it if it doesn't feel right to you. Just something for your consideration. HB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 After the shot I am usually so focused on where the deer went that I don't get excited right away. When I find my deer there are three things that are going to happen. First excitment, then prayer, followed by celebration. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 It's just not my style to whoop it up after a kill. I have more of a feeling of quiet satisfaction for a job well done. Sort of like when you finish a project where you've built something really nice with your own two hands. But, as long as the emotions are genuine and not just an act for the camera, I don't have any problem with the celebrations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I certainly understand your point, and agree a little bit. I have also been around other emotionally heavy situations and recognize that laughter can be a manifestation of more than just comedy. Often it's basically a nervous reaction. I have seen professional, experienced policemen fight to control a laugh at a crash scene with dead people laying about. They know it's certainly not funny, but that is a scene that takes a lot to deal with, and sometimes it just happens that way. If it can happen at a somber time, how much more likely at a time when you are excited and happy, to boot? OR, it could be that it's a person that is just flat irreverent. Could go either way, but I don't know that I can tell which is which on a hunting video. Regardless of why they do it, you don't have to like it if it doesn't feel right to you. Just something for your consideration. HB Point taken, had not really thought about it from that standpoint, but next time I see such, I will watch a little closer at the expression and sincerity. Guess some displays have seemed to me at least from how I have viewed them as coming across that way as the person was laughing over the death of or how the animal died. I try to keep an open mind when viewing, but sometimes have to admit some of those who make comments and engage in outbursts of laughter from my viewpoint do seem at times to maybe not have quite the respect fot the animal they have taken, as what I would. Not to say they are wrong in doing what they do, just not something I care for viewing, and I can change the channel. Like I said at the very beginning of my reply, "to each his own". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest adrenaline_junky Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 I'm the same way I sound an idiot out there but it's just the way I express my hunting. It's that 110% of pure ADRENALINE that runs through your vanes right after the moment of truth. If you don't get this feeling you should give it up. At that point it's not hunting no more it's killing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nativetexan Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 Now that we're all in touch with our emotions.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mirage Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 I agree i get realy excited when i take a deer wheather it a doe or big buck!I on the other hand dont like it when a hunter on tv belly laughs after a killl i feel as though he feels he has gotten one over on the deer and maybe a little respect is needed. Just my opnion. Not to say I dont yellbut thats just the adreniline running through me. I just think the primos guys could be a little more classier than they are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trackerman64 Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 i think a successful hunt of any kind deserves celebration, but how one chooses to celebrate is up to them, as long as it is genuine, yesterday my 10 year old shot his first small game, a chipmunk, we hooted and high fived as if it were a huge buck, and best of all it was not that he killed it , it was the fact that we saw it on a stump at 30 yards , stalked to within 10 yards and he made a clean head shot.. now that deserves celebrating Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 "Who's your daddy now,B@#$!" but that was a popular phrase at the time. Personally, thats tasteless, no respect for the quarry that your hunting! JMHO! It's just not my style to whoop it up after a kill. I have more of a feeling of quiet satisfaction for a job well done. Sort of like when you finish a project where you've built something really nice with your own two hands. But, as long as the emotions are genuine and not just an act for the camera, I don't have any problem with the celebrations. This is what I do as well! I enjoy the moment, snap a few pictures, get the rest of the job done. Then usually my father and I get a bite to eat, and have a few drinks and talk about the day, and the days of the past! But I too have no problems with some celebrations. Like William said, the ones that laugh bother me, again, it seems like they have no respect for what they are hunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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