Just a warning to all of my fellow hunters out there, be careful what you post on the internet, you never know when you are going to wind up being somebodies advertisement. Here's our story
When we found out my husband got his Owens Valley Archery Elk tag for August of 2011 we were elated, we were both born and raised in this valley and our families have been here for generations, hunting is more than just a hobby of ours it is a way of life. We feed our family primarily off of the game we kill each year and are already instilling the valuable lessons of honesty, integrity, and etiquette in the field into our two boys. For my husband this hunt was the opportunity of a lifetime, not once did we ever consider using a hunting guide service, unfortunately a hunting guide service decided to use us.
Shortly after my husband took a nice 6X6 myself and one of the men who was on the hunt with him posted the picture of his elk on our Facebook pages, we were thrilled for him and wanted to show off this major achievement to all of our family and friends and thanks to the internet it worked.
About 2 months later it was brought to our attention that the picture of my husband’s elk had been added to a page for a hunting guide service, Jerry’s Hunting Guide Service, out of Independence, Ca . It had been listed in an album along with all of the other successful hunts that he guided that year, implying that my husband’s elk was among that group. Wrote on his wall and on the picture asking that he take this photo down, but he refused.
I would never knock a guy for trying to make a living doing what he loves, but taking credit for a hunt that you weren’t involved in is just plain wrong. Perhaps I should have showed better judgment by not posting a picture of my husband’s elk on the internet, but I suppose that I just assumed that any person with any integrity or hunting etiquette, who truly valued the sport, would never even consider doing something so dishonest. A person with this type of character is certainly not somebody who should be getting any of our business.
Here is a link to his page https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Jerrys-Hunting-Guide-Service/214746848548614 if you look in the album entitled 2011 Tule Elk my husband’s photo is number 32, the last one in the album.
When we found out my husband got his Owens Valley Archery Elk tag for August of 2011 we were elated, we were both born and raised in this valley and our families have been here for generations, hunting is more than just a hobby of ours it is a way of life. We feed our family primarily off of the game we kill each year and are already instilling the valuable lessons of honesty, integrity, and etiquette in the field into our two boys. For my husband this hunt was the opportunity of a lifetime, not once did we ever consider using a hunting guide service, unfortunately a hunting guide service decided to use us.
Shortly after my husband took a nice 6X6 myself and one of the men who was on the hunt with him posted the picture of his elk on our Facebook pages, we were thrilled for him and wanted to show off this major achievement to all of our family and friends and thanks to the internet it worked.
About 2 months later it was brought to our attention that the picture of my husband’s elk had been added to a page for a hunting guide service, Jerry’s Hunting Guide Service, out of Independence, Ca . It had been listed in an album along with all of the other successful hunts that he guided that year, implying that my husband’s elk was among that group. Wrote on his wall and on the picture asking that he take this photo down, but he refused.
I would never knock a guy for trying to make a living doing what he loves, but taking credit for a hunt that you weren’t involved in is just plain wrong. Perhaps I should have showed better judgment by not posting a picture of my husband’s elk on the internet, but I suppose that I just assumed that any person with any integrity or hunting etiquette, who truly valued the sport, would never even consider doing something so dishonest. A person with this type of character is certainly not somebody who should be getting any of our business.
Here is a link to his page https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Jerrys-Hunting-Guide-Service/214746848548614 if you look in the album entitled 2011 Tule Elk my husband’s photo is number 32, the last one in the album.
