Thread: Social influencers/bloggers/utubers and the effect they have on our sports

Everything progresses, I look back at the kit I first started hunting with, ex-Army camo, Buller boots, a fully wooded Mauser 7 x 57, no scope, green river curved skinning knife, would go all day with bugger all to eat and no other stuff, mostly hunted with mates but we always split up with the simple instruction, you stay this side of the river and I'll go the other side.
First shotgun was a side by side, had to reload as the cost of factory ammo was too expensive, as many did.

Now I have breathable waterproof clothes and jackets, have moved to a Blaser and a Sako, have binos, a PLB, good boots and a bit of other stuff, couldn't go all day without a feed and use a sword knife. (still have the Mauser) A lot comes down to your budget and when your young, in most cased its bugger all.

I watch some cool videos, some with all the kit, but like to think I can avoid being influenced to get all the kit... Now. Mind you if all the kit they have now was around when I was young, I guess it could have been a bit of a train wreck on the wallet.

I like to think you get wiser as you get older, but prove to myself at times this is BS hence the PLB and other kit, which back in the day I would never have looked at, not that it existed.

Influencing is just a more modern form of advertising, same old tactics as have always been used, bigger faster better. The best thing is that if it's on You Tube and its bullshit, you can turn if off.