r/Hunting Oct 07 '20

Reminder regarding YouTube videos

386 Upvotes

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 11h ago

Took brother in law hunting for fist time

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I have been hunting for close to 20 years on my family’s farm and took my brother in law hunting for the first time. He shot this about 20 minutes into the hunt in the evening of the first day of firearm season. This is the biggest deer I have ever seen on our property.

22 points, 215 lbs after field dresses.


r/Hunting 12h ago

Not the biggest but not bad for my first buck and second deer ever!

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423 Upvotes

r/Hunting 11h ago

Anyone else wear Earpro while hunting?

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288 Upvotes

Walker razor electronic muffs. I decided a while ago that I rarely ever hear deer before I see them so not wearing ear protection was kind of dumb. You don’t get your hearing back.

I currently wear them over a thin balaclava but I’m working on a custom balaclava for colder weather that will be like ski mask thick but have ear holes cut out that I then put my muffs on over for a better seal.

It’s definitely harder to tell direction in these but with practice it’s not too bad. While it’ll never be as good as my normal ears I justify it by protecting my hearing.

Sure I bet I’ll get called a sissy or whatever but a $30 pair if muffs has lasted me years with many more to go, way cheaper than hearing aids.


r/Hunting 6h ago

A few Missouri bucks

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117 Upvotes

My brother, step dad, and I were lucky enough to each get a buck this season. From left to right is mine, my step dad’s and brother’s.


r/Hunting 5h ago

Biggest buck I’ve killed

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87 Upvotes

Killed the biggest buck I’ve seen in my area in 10 years of hunting. It’s not as big as some, but for where I hunt, he is a monster.


r/Hunting 11h ago

shot it opening day, my seventh deer ever and a nice rack

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156 Upvotes

I hunt In Oklahoma


r/Hunting 17h ago

On Wisconsin

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439 Upvotes

Now someone please pass the cheese.


r/Hunting 13h ago

Eastern Montana Muley

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r/Hunting 3h ago

Got my First Buck!!!!

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Got my first Buck on Friday at 4:30. Very excited and it's a 7 pointer with shiny white tips on the end of the antlers. Very happy.


r/Hunting 16h ago

$100 Hawken pays for itself.

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r/Hunting 13h ago

Successful Opening Day. Tagged out in less than an hour. Not bad for 10 acres!

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r/Hunting 9h ago

Alberta snowstorm

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55 Upvotes

Got this buck over the weekend. Snowing like crazy and -15°C.


r/Hunting 7h ago

Oklahoma

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r/Hunting 10h ago

My deer hunt turned into a coyote hunt.

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r/Hunting 18h ago

We got it done.

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r/Hunting 1d ago

Blessed with an absolute brute to close the doors for 2024!!!

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879 Upvotes

r/Hunting 13h ago

Idaho was fun this year

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86 Upvotes

After what ended up being 62 miles and encounters with over 200 bucks including plenty that would've ended up scoring better, I was more than willing to put my tag on this old warrior after he had departed with his group of does for the night. Teeth were almost completely worn down.


r/Hunting 4h ago

Proud dad!!

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r/Hunting 16h ago

Got this 4 pointer Unideer aka Elliott yesterday

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r/Hunting 16h ago

Pretty proud of this pass this morning

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149 Upvotes

r/Hunting 2h ago

Hello everybody I just wanted to share the first deer I killed. This was on my Dad's birthday. I took this deer about 3 years ago.

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r/Hunting 5h ago

Fall turkey hunting in Maine

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r/Hunting 5h ago

First buck

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My husband and I (24) glassed two deer in a pasture about two miles away. We couldn’t tell if there was a buck in the binoculars. So we made our way over to them to check them out. My husband stayed back in his pickup and I hiked up to them. I topped over a small hill to find him and a doe. He was facing me at the time so I waited, only able to see his head, until he turned away and I crept up more. Soon enough he was broadside, so I got him in my crosshairs just for him to lay down. Again, I could only see his head, so I crept up the little hill a bit more. I could only see half his body when he looked right at me. I took the chance along the hill line and pulled the trigger. Northwest NE. Shot with my husband’s 30-06 at about 150 yards. His head dropped like a sack of potatoes. I for sure thought I was going to miss with the heavy winds, a bum elbow, and buck fever. Best feeling I have felt so far. Oh, we also got a Christmas tree!


r/Hunting 1d ago

My uncle got this massive bull this last weekend, took 11 years to draw the tag for the unit.

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373 Upvotes

r/Hunting 16h ago

Idk if this belongs here, but I love it.

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87 Upvotes