we speak of near everything as culture now , it is the modern vernacular.


coffee culture
bar culture
classic car culture
movie culture
rodeo culture
bowling culture
drag racing
nascar

there are even many sub cultures to gun culture as there are Mopar , GM , Ford and even AMC as well as lots of other car sub cultures one of my uncles is into Citroen's a French car his is a 55D smoothest riding little car for being a 1955, not much power but 4 wheel independent hydraulic suspension.

trapping is certainly a culture with water and land sub cultures

in guns , gun culture you have hunting of many types , long range , USPSA , IDPA , bullseye , tactical, 3 gun , bench rest , 3 position air rifle , precision small bore.

then you get into archery and you have very distinct sub cultures the traditional guys with hand hewn bows , the ultra modern target shooters, 3d & the hunters but even the hunters you find saddle hunters and xbows

Seems things are more about the image/identity these days than the enjoyment of the activity. Take trapping, seems a lot of the younger crowd buy a dozen or 2 traps then start a social media platform to show everyone who they are even though they haven't even learned the basics, then a year or two later they aren't hardly even trapping. If someone asked me if I'm part of a gun culture or hunting culture or Rodeo culture or any other culture I'd say no, I just enjoy doing it. Maybe I'm just part of the Seth culture. It has nothing to do with an identity or image its just what "I" enjoy doing.

Wolfie you want to be part of the "gun culture" I grew up in, go get u a bird dog pup, spend all spring and summer training it then hunt 2 or 3 times a week some days walking 8+ miles a day. Or go call predators couple times a week through winter for a couple years before you even figure out the basics. Or maybe spent most evenings from Late August till 1st of October sweating ur butt off hanging deer stands cutting shooting lanes and glassing fields so u can set in a tree throughout November freezing ur but off. I guess that's the "culture" as I experienced it. I did it because I loved it not for views, likes or comments.

I just don't see that much in the younger generations these days. If success isn't handed to them and the attention that comes with it or if it doesn't come easy the intrest fades quickly. Their experience is the social aspect of social platforms and it mostly ends there.

My dad bird hunted and I learned from him but every other form of hunting or trapping I learned by doing it on my own. I hunted for 3 years before I shot my first doe.

I take kids other than my own hunting or trapping every year (I would have died for those opportunities when I was younger) and it just floors me the lack of try they have. Yes they like the idea and experience of it but fall flat when the work involved for succes starts.

Just my opion from the cheap seats.

… whatever you say I guess….just don’t diss on da tug life culture lol

I know nothing about it so I'll hold my piece lol

… a buddy of mine worked on a barge .. made good money but fell overboard too much

.. came back home and got on with the county (Gradall culture) lol

Doubt I'd get close enough to the side to ever fall off a barge... too scared of the cotton mouth and alligator culture

… and that dude on the right is definitely Burt Reynolds