Ever seen one of your critters on-line?

[7mag.]

Crap mtmiller!

That is downright dirty. I would report them to the better business bureau and write a letter to the editor to the largest newspaper near their operation.

It turns my stomach.

I agree. You should also contact the guide and outfitters association for that state.

 

[jmez]

Not sure how much good that woud do now since the offending picture has been removed. An Outfitter that does that with a picture would have no trouble telling the OFGA that he never used the picture, go ahead and look at the website and see if you can find it.

 

[direwolf]

I had a fishing charter use a pic taken on my camera of me and my crew with a great days catch. It was in his ad in a fishing magazine. It wasn't his boat and he wasn't there. I guess when you email a pic to all your buddies and they forward it to their buddies and so on - that's what can happen. Oh well, lots of people I know saw it and asked me about it. His charter business didn't even last a whole season - no wonder...

 

[Arrowslinger]

Yep, had a picture of me and a hog I killed at the end of a show once. They snagged it from the Internet and posted it up like I was part or had done thing to do with the show, which I didn't.

 

[muleymemories]

I had a picture of one of my muleys end up in Muley Crazy Mag. Still to this day I have no idea why? The only reason I found out is a buddy came across it.

 

[bigmoose]

I had a guide from Utah come into our camp and photograph us holding our bucks. A week later he was showing those photos and claiming he had guided us to our bucks. Bastard !

 

[Beendare]

Oh man thats crazy, mtnmiller.

I've had guys poach pics I've posted on a forum- one was a test I did shooting arrows into a waterbuff and he was misrepresenting it.

 

[MattB]

Goats must be photopoaching magnets. I killed a goat with my bow about 10 years ago in BC, and it ended up in the catalog of a booking agent that I did not book through (although the photo was used to advertise for the outfitter I hunted with who does use the booking agency). It is in part because of stuff like that I rarely post my hunting photos on the internet.

 

[land cruiser]

One of my friends was appalled to find himself front and center on a poster covering hunting store door entrance. The shot of him and his trophy wolf from Chukotka ended up in central Kazakhstan. He took a picture next to it for laughs and giggles.

 

[Backpack Hunter]

Never had a photo of a kill ripped off, probably because I never post a kill.....at least none that I can remember.

 

[Scoot]

A number of years ago a well known elk guru made use of a picture I posted online when I wrote up an elk hunt. This is a guy who anyone who reads any of the online elk forums would recognize. The picture was of my brother, buddy, and me with racks on our back and we were silhouetted with the setting sun behind us- it's my favorite I've ever taken. I was very surprised to find this picture splattered across the front of one of his products he was selling. I asked him about it and really got nothing in terms of a substantive reply. I had no interest in "doing something about it", but I certainly did recognize it as a classless and rude and was either very arrogant or very ignorant behavior. Had he asked me to use it I would have been flattered and happily let him do so. Instead, I lost considerable respect for him in the process.

 

[BroodBuster]

Never a game animal but I've seen pictures I have taken of friends salmon and steelhead on a worthless guides site. I don't like it when the photographer is not credited. I think every picture should have a photo credit.