Hmm, you may not identify as a hunter, you just occasionally do hunter things. Like hunting. You hang out in deer stands from time to time (not a normal activity for non-hunters), and you have a freezer full of game you shot yourself. You may not march in hunter pride parades, and it's OK that you don't. We'll label you as "hunter-curious".
Are you thinking he'll come out of the blind one of these days?
When I outed myself as a hunter, I did it at the yoga school. Than which there is no whicher. It went like this:
I killed a moose last weekend and ...
OH. I suppose you're one of those people who just takes the horns and leaves the rest to rot.
Antlers. They don't have horns. And no. I carried the moose out on my back. It took 6 loads. Then I went back to bring out the hide, because a woman like you wants to tan it and have it to sleep under. Then I went back for the head, because a woman like you wants to clean it up with dermestid beetles and make the skull a mosaic. Then I went back to bring out the femurs for a woman like you who wants to make native American flutes out of them.
Oh. Well, I....
As a matter of fact, my -06 is providing the meat for two college houses of young men as well as for me.
Well, I suppose....
You supppose. You are so far off base I'm not even going to be offended. Leave the meat to rot! Leaving the meat is a felony in this state. If you actually know someone who did that, let's step over to the phone. I'll call the Division of Wildlife. The poaching hotline. Right now. You give the name and the circumstances. We'll send them up. They'll lose the right to hunt forever. Because by God, they deserve it.
Well, I don't exactly....
No. Let's go. There's the phone, right in there. Shakti will let us use it. (Shakti, our God-Empress Instructor, who is amused, suppresses her smile and indicates the phone is available.) Let's get those game-wasting assholes in the slammer. I'm dead serious. Let's make the call. Right now.
Well, I don't exactly know of anybody. I've sort of heard that....
I see. Sort of heard that.... How about you find the person you sort of heard that from and set them straight? Those people that leave the meat are felons and we hunters want them upstate, maybe even more than you do.
Shakti intervenes: We'll do Pincha Mayurasana now. If you need to space your elbows, grab a block. Find a place along the wall....