Just wondering why a lot of the people I see on here behind their trophies look like they hate their lives, wives, kids, jobs, hell everything! Cheer up for goodness sake. Some of you look like you're still taking your high school football intimidation photos. If hunting pisses you off quit doing it. Don't get me wrong i've killed a ton of deer but it still excites me everytime. I'm smiling when I'm behind a doe, heck I'm even smiling when im taking someone else's picture. Sorry rant over.

Agree 100%. Same thing on the hunting forum in Florida. Look like they are mad at the world.

I've never understood the bland-sad faces, either.

Worse is a photo of a happy hunter with a fine buck, especially one off public land and/or the hunter's biggest ever, and some butthead jackwagon says "Should have let it go and it would have been a trophy next year."

I agree Clem!

It's a sad situation

I know a fella that does this...swear it's genetic. Trys to look like he just killed it with his bare hands... His dad has done the same thing for his entire life.

I have braces and try not to smile in pics. Yes I'm 33.
Oh and never let them go you could be dead next year. Or your buddy could shoot it the next day.

One thing I have to say is make sure to take the pictures when you find the deer.

Tuesday I shot a buck that I'm very pleased with but the pictures look like I could care less...the pics was taken after we dragged it about 700 yards across a clear cut. Needless to say when we got back to the truck where the camera was, I was past exhausted.

That's because the multitudes of bears eat all their corn up and tear their feeders up.

You better not KILL a bear down here, though.

You'll do less time and suffer less stigma by simply killing a human.

I shot a Gemsbok on the White Sands Missile Range in NM, kill site 3 miles from the truck. The photos at the kill site show both me and the guide with big smiles over a 40"+ trophy. After 2 trips back to the truck (12 mile round trip), 9 miles loaded down with meat,cape, etc... the looks on our faces were completely different. We ate like animals later on at the Golden Corral in Alamogordo, including the rarest steak I've ever had. I couldnt wait any longer for it to cook.
The photos dont always tell the whole story.

This is true, of course.

Having taken thousands of photos of fishermen and hunters over the last 20 years, though, I can't begin to count the number of times I've asked for a smile or some kind of positive facial expression and the reply is, "I don't smile" or "I am" and they look like someone just told 'em their dog had been hit by a car.

You gotta stay mad at'em or you ain't gonna killem'!

I think for some people, unfortunately, hunting is outlet for their anger, displaying their supposed male dominance, out-doing thier buddies, etc. Smiling is just not indicative of how they feel at the moment ... they probably feel just like they do after winning a fist fight or something like that - glad they won, but not a positive feeling.

Not me, if I manage to kill a buck I'm psyched. I don't care if I have a goofy smile on my face!

It pisses me off to see the pics of people who look pissed off. They think they are a bad arse or something..because they killed a deer. Your not a bad arse! And you can still have you arse kicked!...just sayin

If I had a pic of me and a deer I'd look as happy as a fat kid in a chocolate factory

When you get one, call me and I'll be glad to bring the camera!

Check this guy out. SO ANGRY!!!!!

And stick the tongue back in the deer's mouth before you take the pic! Just looks better.

If the tongue won't stay in the deer's mouth pull it out as far as you can and cut it off at the teeth. It works. A guide in Texas taught me that trick.

You couldn't beat the the smile of me that night that's for sure [img:center]http://[/img] now when I shoot a coyote it's out of pure rage llol