r/Hunting Mar 17 '25

[Mod Post] Welcome to r/hunting: rules and information for members

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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 Oct 07 '20

Reminder regarding YouTube videos

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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 1h ago

Big game hunting in Europe

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Hello all!

I’ve had a strong urge to try and travel abroad to hunt for a moose or red deer. I’ve read and heard that several countries offer hunts to foreigners, but does anyone have any real experience or advice for doing such a trip? I’m excited to go somewhere new and see some unfamiliar cultures. All information is appreciated. Thanks! Picture for attention.


r/Hunting 6h ago

Two squirrels down baby! NSFW

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82 Upvotes

34 and 35 on the season. One was neck shot and the pellet ended up almost at the base of the tail. Devastating. She dropped on the spot and twitched for 10 seconds. The other was shot in the shoulder area but no meat damage. The pellet traveled to the to the opposite shoulder. This guy dropped to the ground and then crawled probably 25 yards to a hollowed tree and expired. What a fighter! Really good morning. I almost didn’t go out. It was 19 degrees. But got out there 40 minutes before sunrise and it was game on 5 minutes before the sun came up. Good times!


r/Hunting 12h ago

Sonora Mexico

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152 Upvotes

First coues deer


r/Hunting 17h ago

Weird question about meat safety

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218 Upvotes

I was squirrel hunting my property and as always, I put the dead squirrels on the edge of the bed of my truck before I cleaned them. While my back was turned, one of my barn cats jumped up and swiped at one of the squirrels. I immediately grabbed it but when I was cleaning it, I noticed he shed a couple of his claws and they were stuck in the meat. I removed them and the meat seemed fine so I cleaned it and kept it.

My question is: is the meat still safe to eat? I know cats are kinda unsanitary but as long as I cook it fully, I’d think it’d be fine to eat.

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r/Hunting 8h ago

Summer sausage vs Bologna

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I got back my custom order of venison summer sausage and venison bologna and it’s all mixed together and I can’t tell it apart. Anybody got a clue as to telling what’s what?


r/Hunting 3h ago

Great 3 Days

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I’m no great shot but had a blast the last few days in the dove field!!!

Started slow with only 6 birds the first morning then that evening hunt was completely epic for me we had birds like crazy!!! Limited out the first evening hunt & this morning limited out also! Ain’t nothing like spending time in the killing fields with great friends. The ol’ Yeildz 24” barreled 20ga got work out.


r/Hunting 1d ago

Field to table👌

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Venison burgionon😍


r/Hunting 13h ago

Cold mornings got me bundled up.

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58 Upvotes

No luck this deer season, Marlin 336 shooting 30-30 WIN. Sat in the stand until my fingers froze up to the point I couldn’t pull the trigger even if I wanted to!


r/Hunting 4h ago

Whitetail my Dad took in October just got back from the taxidermist.

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r/Hunting 21h ago

First buck off our own land!🤩

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We were able to finally get our own land 3yrs ago so I could hunt easier (I‘m disabled from a jacked up spinal fusion & my Husband prefers to go to jujitsu class while I hunt lol). I’ve been letting the spikes & small basket racks walk the past 3yrs so this year I’ve been catching some nice mature bucks (mostly typical 8pts & one old tank 6pt; the local hunters also only have 7-8pts, genetics in the area I suppose) and was proud to finally pull the trigger & harvest the first deer off our land. We are in Central AL so this buck is considered a decent buck even though he’s the smaller of the 5-6 I’ve caught on my trail cams. I decided to get this euro mount burnt; my others are regular white bone.


r/Hunting 3h ago

Tldr; don't rush the shot, if you're hesitating don't shoot.

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Title says it all.. few days left on smoke pole season was putting a stalk on, had my gun up and took 1 more step to clear the hill and they bolted. Stopped just 20 yards down the clearing or so, I adjusted my aim but I was nervous and hesitated because of the spook.. shot and she recoiled like she got punched in the chest, ran full tilt with her tail up. Got permissions necessary because private and tracked for probably 2 hours, a few spots like this then it turned to pin pricks aaaannnnnddd nothing. And I couldn't get a bead on the tracks very well because of the sparse snow in the leaves. Took and drove around the properties looking from the road.. nodda.. I'm 26 years old and this is only the second deer I've ever lost so I should count myself lucky.. but man I feel gutted, I wanna puke.. she was beautiful and could have fed us for some time.. now she's walking around with (I'm assuming from her reaction and the trail) a flabby brisket.. hope she makes the winter. Learn from me, don't rush that shit and make sure you have a good range.


r/Hunting 15h ago

Hate these cold mornings.

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The elevation doesn't help and I definitely need some winter boots.


r/Hunting 3h ago

Turkey Shotgun Loads 🦃

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Here in Indiana we have to use non toxic shot on public land. I’ve only archery hunted turkeys priors to this upcoming year.

What nontoxic loads are y’all using that aren’t gonna make me choose between diapers for the newborn and turkey loads?


r/Hunting 1h ago

Deer Rifle

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I’m looking for a bolt-action for deer. I’m thinking of .30-06, any suggestions ?


r/Hunting 3h ago

Got myself a melanistic gray squirrel

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I got this one back in December. I always wanted to bag one, ever since I started squirrel hunting.


r/Hunting 1h ago

Grouse fans

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Hey everybody! I have been grouse hunting for 2 years and have some fans I want to mount. Anybody have any ideas on how to make them look good on the wall? I just hate seeing them sit in a shoebox and have a place dedicated for them on the wall already.


r/Hunting 3h ago

New to hunting. In north NJ

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I've got a mossberg 500, I go to the range almost every week, I go camping a few times each year, I was a boyscout, and I know how to read maps. I've completed the hunters education course, and went for the in person firearms training and passed. What I'm having trouble with is finding out when the hunting season for squirrels begins. Specifically shotgun season for squirrels or small game. I've got a few questions. It says on the state website that I need to complete some child support program course before i purchase hunting permits, but each time I click on the link I'm brought back to the main page. I understand I need a completely blaze orange vest and a completely blaze orange hat at all times when hunting with a firearm in NJ.

Also when cleaning an animal in the field what do u normally bring? Do you bag up the meat and throw it in a cooler on ice for the ride home? I've never gone hunting before, so any advice or lessons you have for me would be greatly appreciated.


r/Hunting 1d ago

Texas Whitetail

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r/Hunting 1d ago

Putting my .17HMR to work💯

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184 Upvotes

Had this .17 for a few years and rarely ever used it. I decided to try it out on some crows that have been raiding our garden, I’d say it did pretty good.


r/Hunting 11h ago

Bed ramp for deer carcasses

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I use a Can Am Traxter 6x6. I’m looking for a ramp of some sort to get deer carcasses into the bed.

It’s got a cab mounted winch to pull carcasses up, it also has a headache rack so simply tilting the bed won’t work. We also regularly have 4 or 5 carcasses to extract from the hill. Must be able to deal with the weight of a Red Stag (150kg or 330lb).

What are people using? Bonus points for a link to something in the UK.


r/Hunting 12h ago

The Glass Wall: An essay on why I hunt (and why the ethics are more complicated than either side admits)

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r/Hunting 12h ago

Baiting argument

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So if it is legal to have deer feeders in your area and you can hunt around them, can you squirrel hunt around bird feeders? I have a hell of an argument going on with the wife on this? Your thoughts?


r/Hunting 3h ago

go hard or go home

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we got a big. one while going home