Social networking websites and shooting related imagery

[JonathanL]

Hi everybody, hope all is well.

 

This is probably a strange question, but I really just wanted to get an idea of how others felt.

 

If you’re on various social networking sights such as Facebook etc... Do you publicise photos of yourself shooting to friends?

 

The reason I ask is because I use to keep a low profile with regards to shooting across the board but just recently more and more photos of me shooting have appeared on my profile. Mostly all of my good friends know I shoot as it’s always been an interest from an early age.

 

A friend of mine who shoots also is incredibly secretive. Very few people knows he shoots and he does not even send the word ‘gun’ or ‘shooting’ in text messages! Despite living in the country he carries his gun out the house in the slip, rapped in bin bags and jackets. He has this mindset that he’s being monitored all the time.

 

In my mind I started to display photos of myself shooting because it’s a hobby and something that I tie in with many parts of my life. The more exposed something is the more normal it becomes.

 

Anyway, thanks for reading and apologies for blabbing on.

 

I don't go out of my way to intentially post as many shooting pics as I can but I don't let it stop me if I want to. Never had any bad reaction and if people don't like it then that's their problem not mine. Like I've said on other threads, I really don't think that too many people care that much. The number of people out there who are rabidly anti-shooting is very small, I think.

 

J.

 

J.

[Dr_Scholl]

I have no problem posting shooting pictures on Facebook. Thing is I almost never take pictures when i'm target shooting or hunting.

 

And the only places I post gun porn (like my AR-15 pics and what not) are on forums like this.

Edited June 24, 2012 by Dr_Scholl

[Cake444]

I generally don’t put dead things on the wall, although there is a picture of a pheasant roasting on a spit.

 

To be fair I hardly take photos when out hunting or target shooting as I’m too involved in the activity, although friends can get snappy with cameras.

 

I guess the whole reason for the question in the first place is that I find I’m almost made to feel like I’m doing something wrong these days. There was a point were I almost gave up on the hobby due to the unforeseen future of the sport. It’s not a nice thought to feel like your hobby that you are so passionate about is sitting on an icy lake that may give, or may not some day.

 

Sorry, going off on one again just deflated!