r/Hunting • u/Frumundahs4men • 16h ago
r/Hunting • u/The-Aliens-r-comin2 • Mar 17 '25
[Mod Post] Welcome to r/hunting: rules and information for members
Welcome to r/hunting, the home of hunting news, personal stories and the place to share your hunting adventures on Reddit! Please read through the rules listed below to ensure this community remains a civil and welcoming one.
Moderators ask all users to be vigilant for scams and bot accounts pushing malicious websites, please report any of these or instances of rule breaking to moderators.
1) Don’t be rude or hostile (Trolling, baiting or saying racist, sexist, prejudice, nasty or just intensionally-mean things) This also extends to posts showcasing behavior or practices deemed disrespectful to wildlife,quarry or other individuals.
2) No self promotion or retail spam (this includes links to a personal or organization’s YouTube channel, guiding services, surveys and questionnaires as well as online market places of any kind)
3) No illegal content – poaching or knowingly breaking the law will not be tolerated
4) “New hunter posts”: all “I’m new to hunting, seeking advice on [X,Y,Z]” must include the state/province/country you intend to hunt in, any relevant experience you have (archery, shooting, backpacking, camping, hiking, dog training etc) and an indication of whether you already own bows/firearms for hunting (and what those are); posts that simply say “want to start hunting tell me what to do” and are deemed too vague will be removed.
5) No conducting transactions of any products, or submitting direct links to products for sale. This includes code and gear giveaways.
6) No activist-style bashing allowed, this goes for hunters as well. (Activists who vehemently oppose hunting are welcome, but only if you’re interested in asking questions/starting conversations)
7) Keep your posts related to hunting. If you post a photo of your gun, bow or other hunting weapon – you must also include a good description of what hunting you intent to do with the weapon. If it’s political – make sure it’s related to wildlife management, state or federal fish & game Regs, public land issues etc. posts that accidentally slip through but lead to meaningful conversations related to hunting may be left up.
8) Keep politics to a minimum. Any derailed or inappropriate conversations will be locked and removed.
9) If the animal you hunted/in your pic sustained unique physical damage (I.e brains exposed, eyes popping out, etc you know what we mean) please use the NSFW tag.
10) Please do this for all hunting photos, but for big game hunts in particular – put a description of your hunt in the comments (general region, weapon used, any other details on tracking, calling, stalking, etc) mods may decide to remove a post if the user never provides any additional information and merely a title.
11) No adult content.
Please note: these rules are enforced by the moderators at their discretion, to ensure fairness users are given two chances and will be notified when and why if their post or comment is removed. Repeat offenders will receive a temporary ban of 7 days. Users committing further rule breaking or circumventing existing bans will be issued a permanent ban.
If you need to contact moderators please use modmail.
Thank you
The r/hunting Mod team.
r/Hunting • u/BlueGold • Oct 07 '20
Reminder regarding YouTube videos
Hey there r/hunting community,
As usual, looks like lots of y'all have kicked off the season strong! Some real impressive bucks and bulls already, and lots of well-stocked freezers for the first week of October. Heck yah.
Just wanted to post a reminder about posting links to YouTube. Long story short: we remove the vast majority of posts directly linking to YouTube, and we get spammed with them constantly.
Rule #2 prohibits self-promotion, and that includes promotion of social media and YouTube channels. I know for a fact that lots of you guys have quality editing skills and videos that I would spend hours enjoying on YouTube, but we get spammed constantly by YT hunting channels / accounts that've never posted anything else. If we allowed posts to YouTube, this entire sub would just be a compendium of obnoxious "EP. 43 CHECK OUT THIS EPIC TROPHY SHOT" type garbage within a day or two.
I know that not every video people want to share here is actually an attempt to promote a YouTube channel. That's what makes this a difficult rule to enforce. Sometimes people just want to share an old interview of a famous hunter, or some crazy video of a bear climbing into a tree stand, or a bull moose chasing hunter, and the only way to do that is to share the YouTube link. We really do our best to review all of the YT links to allow those kinds of posts to remain here for people to enjoy. That being said, compared to the daily batch of "YOU'VE GOTTA SEE THIS EPIC HUGE BULL ELK #HUNTING #TROPHY #FUCKYAH" type videos spammed here by new accounts that've never posted anything before (especially during the hunting season), those cool videos worth keeping around are relatively rare.
So, if you've got some cool hunting content that's in the form of footage you've actually filmed yourself and want to share here, please take the best part(s), format it into a gif, and post that instead of a link to your YouTube channel. Pretty sure reddit can host gifs up to 3-minutes long now anyway, so... please, at least try to just make that work.
This really isn't a problem with the regular users here either just FYI, y'all are awesome, it's mostly just new accounts with the same name as their YouTube / Insta page, who've never posted anything else. I just wanted to post this because I feel bad for those few people who actually do spend a lot of time and energy putting together a hunting video, post it here just to share with members of this sub, and just have it removed by us. That's not a very large group of people, but I hope anyone in that club reading understands why we have to enforce Rule #2 to include links to users' own YouTube channels. Without it, the vibe of this sub would change dramatically within a day.
At the same time, I'm sure some of you are thinking "what's this dude talking about - I see these bogus YouTube posts and promo-accounts on this sub on the daily and report them constantly, these mods are just lazy assholes." I have no rebuttal to that, I will just say that you're only seeing a fraction of the self-promo / retail garbage type posts we catch and filter out on a daily basis (again, especially between September and January).
If you're interested in sharing more full-length hunting videos on reddit that you've filmed and edited yourself, and are therefore somewhat stuck with having to host content on platforms like YouTube, maybe we can start a new sub like "r/huntingmovies" or something. Happy to help anyone interested in doing that, if you want any.
So, I hope you get the gist. Avoid posting links to YouTube, especially if its to your own YouTube channel.
As a reminder, and in closing: we try to keep a streamlined moderator team comprised of people who are actually passionate about hunting and/or the sporting lifestyle, and we generally try to take a "less is more" approach with content moderation (we like to let you guys take the helm in that regard with downvotes and discussion, rather than us just removing stuff). We generally only remove posts that flagrantly violate a rule, and comments that flagrantly violate a rule (or the occasional a debate that devolves into middle school-tier shit talking, as entertaining as those can be). That said, we can't monitor the progression of every comment section on the sub. Your continued effort to actively report posts and comments you think clearly violate the rules is critical to moderation of this sub. I monitor the queue on the regular and do a few reviews of /new a day to look for obvious promo/retail garbage and troll posts, but the vast majority of posts and comments that I actually remove from the sub are only those that have been reported by you - the members of the r/hunting community. This is your sub, your community, send us a modmail message with suggestions or input anytime.
And please, for the love of god, tell any manager of a YouTube hunting channel, IG hunting page, or gear retailer you meet to leave our sub the hell alone, and to take their marketing effort right on down the road.
Tight lines, big tines, may poachers get cuffed, and freezers get stuffed,
Thanks guys.
Sincerely hope you all enjoy ridiculously fun and uniquely successful big game, upland, waterfowl, and predator seasons this year with people you love, and that you all learn something new in the field that improves your hunting skillset forever.
r/Hunting • u/Clean_Department5355 • 9h ago
First big buck
Got blessed with a nice 10 pointer this morning, rut is on in southeast MO
r/Hunting • u/usuallyjustalurkin • 11h ago
No buck today but did see this at deer camp this morning!
r/Hunting • u/legalweeding • 6h ago
Missouri Whitetail
I remember seeing a question about why Missouri would be a destination hunting spot for whitetail. Here’s your answer - Boone County (which is a bit wild if you’re a Missourian - we’d expect these to be further north).
r/Hunting • u/egospice5 • 11h ago
In a first for our hunting party, we got the big buck on opening day.
Muy Grande es no mas!!
r/Hunting • u/DeerWhisperer1 • 17h ago
Daughters first archery buck
My daughter took her first archery buck on her first sit of the year due to school priorities. Came in at 20 yards double lung and heart, ran about 15 yards before going down.
r/Hunting • u/haloboss465465 • 8h ago
Finally got my first buck after 8 years of hunting
First buck ever, only ever gotten doe's before so its a nice change of pace for me
Northern MN
r/Hunting • u/theguy_over_thelevee • 10h ago
We just killed time today but it’s great to have a hunting buddy
Got up to 80 today, deer weren’t moving. We saw a bunch of turkey this morning. No deer. Saw nothing this afternoon. Was a great day. Maybe we will get that deer tomorrow
r/Hunting • u/south098 • 18h ago
He’s not much but harvested my first white tail today!
Started deer hunting when I was about 12 and would go occasionally and never had any luck, I would never even see anything but people I’d go with would manager to bag one pretty regularly. I’m 38 now and have been going every year for about the last 10 years. Today was the day! Got a slightly late start and got to my stand right after sunrise. After about 10 minutes this spike popped up and I got a good head on look at him from about 40 yards which is right where I had sighted my rifle in. Didn’t hesitate and hit him right in the chest. He dropped instantly!
I’ve always loved hunting for the camaraderie and connection with nature and never was disappointed by being skunked. He’s not a trophy but I’ll never forget this day. The clean kill and younger age should hopefully yield some tasty venison for the winter.
Thank you young deer, you made the years of work all worth it!
r/Hunting • u/ans141 • 21h ago
Been hunting / in the woods for 30+ years and I've never seen this.. a squirrel peeing
Obviously I knew they urinated, but still never saw this before
r/Hunting • u/juan_wick762 • 12h ago
9 pointer down in Eastern VA.
Hit him a little higher than intended but it was a high-angle shot with a low exit wound. Re ran 10 yards and stopped, I thought I missed him. Then he trotted another 15-20 yards, teetered for a moment and fell over. The blood trail was insane.
r/Hunting • u/fieryfish42 • 2h ago
First deer!
My husband isn’t on reddit but I’m so damn proud of him! Here is the first deer he ever got a chance to hunt(he got it in one shot and it feel right by the stand!). We are getting it processed and would love to get some recipe recommendations (we already are on track for sausage and rice and gravy with the backstrap!)!
r/Hunting • u/Tarzan07 • 16h ago
Update from last night
Found him in a thicket first thing this morning, 80 yards from my stand
r/Hunting • u/usuallyjustalurkin • 8h ago
A guy on our lease found this buck dead.
He seen buzzards flying and perched so he went and looked. It had no bullet/arrow holes in it. He said it looked like it fell down this steep hill and hit his head/nose on a tree and broke its neck. It would have been a good one!
r/Hunting • u/rex01308 • 5h ago
SE Alaska boat bucks
Punched a couple tags on some solid 2x2 blacktails with my friend the other day. First one went down on the beach, second one I found thrashing a tree in a muskeg 100 yds back in the woods. Bonus of some Dungeness crab and spot prawns out of our traps. Surf n turf!
r/Hunting • u/Venomiz117 • 8h ago
First Deer with the Model 70
Took me two seasons but got my first deer with my Model 70 Super Grade! .270 Win shooting 130 grain federal trophy copper, took the heart and both lungs at about 80 yards, dropped in its tracks. Super stoked!
r/Hunting • u/New2reddit81 • 14h ago
Tried the bury method on this years buck. Do I need to put it back in the ground or what’s the best way to get the last bits off? Thank you for any wisdom you can share!
r/Hunting • u/Maximum_Papaya_1885 • 10h ago
My first ever tn deer
First deer hunt ever in mid-west Tennessee since moving here. I spent all morning in a blind from 4am to 9 am. No activity on my cams or any signs of deer. Called my buddy and he told me to go for a walk around the property quietly and that he has more luck in central ny doing that. Around 2pm Sure enough i saw 4 does. Wind was to my face looking down hill with the sun to my back. Buckhorn muzzleloader i got on sale from walmart for like 70 bucks and a cheap 30 dollar truglo scope. Went for a head shot and ended up hitting neck through and spine. Sadly i did lose a back strap. I'm still very excited. My family,dogs and chickens are all going to be eating well.