Hunting shows

[Slasher]

It is what drove me to traditional archery!!!

The price of some of these bucks cost more than new cars and trucks... The *Sponsors* send their *pros* on these hunts to showcase their products...

Ain't like no hunting I've ever done.... These type hunts are passed off as hunting in order to *CREATE DEMAND* for a product. This goes against everything I ever learned about the value of life and death from hunting.... It is why I began hating the hunting TV shows....

I would rather shoot a spike on public land than a Booner on one these "so called hunts..."

[MikeW]

I hadn't watched TV hunting or fishing shows in years till lately when I've been locked up in the hotel room with nothing to do..couple Sundays ago I watched the "Outdoor" channel all day. I was really turned off by about every one of them,more like disgusted really. The whole marketing and commercialization thing is really to hard too watch. I really don't like the horn hunters either, nothing wrong with wanting to shoot a big buck but it's the way they are consumed with the horns and it's not worth shooting if it isn't a trophy. Every animal I kill is a trophy. It's sad really that people who don't know hunting and watch these shows think that's what hunting is all about. Don't think I'll be watching any more any time soon.

[The Whittler]

The thing that gets me is, it's a half hour show. 10 min. of actual hunting and 20 min. of commercial. Here comes a deer go to com. he's getting a little closer go to com. And so on and so on.

I think most of them are phonies, a joke, and strictly a TV show and not real hunting. They are just as bad as those reality shows, give me a break.

[Orion]

I quit watching these programs many years ago. However, about once a year, I force myself to watch a morning's worth of outhouse channel hunting programs.  Don't pay too much attention to the shows, but I jot down every sponsor and product plug.  Usually I can't keep up and miss some.  However, I end up with a list of sponsors and products that I WILL NOT PATRONIZE. If I didn't have such a list, I'm sure I'd sometimes buy some of their stuff by accident. I'm sure they don't feel the effects of my boycott, but it's my way of showing disapproval.    

[El gran J]

Oh, Lets start with the ones who act like total idiots, and start jumping up and down, yelling, scream, and even crying at the the camera like some doped up idiot "DID YOU SEE THAT, DID YOU SEE THAT!!!??  By the way THATS WHAT FRED DOES!! Yes moron, I did!!  You filmed it so you could make your show!!  And the comment, "That deer's not exactly what I was looking for......."  for that reason, I hope they go home with nothing!!  Unappreciative ba.....!!  We are part of this world, and we hunters choose to be more of a part of it that most people.  I appreciate every opportunity I can have interacting with nature.  If I choose not to kill an animal, it involves ethical reasons.  Either I can't make a good shot, or I have no intention of keeping it for my consumption.  I'd rather just watch them and maybe take a picture and appreciate that it made itself visible to me.  
And while were on the subject of KILLING!!  That's what it is, KILLING!!  The wild animals on OUR ranch, and I gather on most ranches or farms, were not planted from a seed!!  Therefore I do not HARVEST!!  That is a bunch of PC bul.....! I have no reason to use that word when talking about hunting! It's something of a PC fashion statement that makes one seem humane for the ones who think we are not.  To those, I say go back to cocoons and PC sheltered lives, where you don't want to offend!  This PC BS is the reason that people like Cass Sunstein are given any merit.  I refuse to teach my child when he's old enough to hunt, to be ashamed of what a hunter really does.
 Oh, and one more thing, I thing Jennay Weiter is way more better looking that that Tiffany girl.  Even though she does hunt with a compound, I'd hold Jennay's hand at the mall!!

[Killdeer]

Never watch them. They depress me.

Killdeer

[Toecutter]

No Sh#$, Depressing as hell! Actually more embarassing when I have to explain to my GF who is definitely open to the Idea of sitting in a blind or doing a little stalking with me how that stuff that's on TV is all crap and just plain disrespectful in general.  :rolleyes:  

Keep the faith,
Nathan

[Flingblade]

X3 on The Wild Within.  Best hunting show on tv.  I also like Tred Barta; his fishing shows are fun to watch as well.  I also don't like the "smoked 'em" line.  Might make sense if they were shooting a black powder rifle.

[MikeW]

I also don't like the "smoked 'em" line.

How about "Whack em & Stack em" or "If it's brown it's down"

[Trad-Man]

I guess I just got sucked in....LOL...

I watch my own hunting shows...everytime I go for a walk in the woods, take my shorthair into the field or sit in a stand.  I get to be the leading man and audience all at the same time.  It's my video and nobody elses.

I'm my own best sponsor, I do my own advertising to me and all the video I don't shoot I get to watch all by myself.  Nobody else has to see it, and personally I couldn't care less.

When the show is over I might take a few pictures.  And if a few look good and I want to share them with family or friends I will. If somebody wants to hear the story...great, but nobody is going to make me.

[cody94]

i think i could care less about the sayings and stuff if they would stop throwing all their products down are throughts. i mean stop telling me what to use its not going to make me a better hunter,its just goin to give me a bunch of hoopla i dont want to keep checking on. less is more. in my opinion.

[sidebuster]

The only one I have some respect for is Tred Barta.

All they do is promote all the high tech stuff that is being used for hunting today.

The stuff they promote is at the point of ridiculous

I am glad I am not persuaded and still know my own mind.

[toddster]

i know the feeling.  I put a post on few weeks ago, never realized how bad till had total knee sdone and all I been watching.  Makes me mad, what happend to the hunt?  They do promote to younger crowd, but we need a few more shows like tred barta or strickland.  I understand hunting with cam is hard and have to promote equipment, lets be honest, if Bear was alive he would too.  But how about little more hunt, the work, the passing of knowledge.  I am really teaching my self on how to video and upload it (puter dumb) to try and get a video library to perhaps get a show.  But guess if my ferguson didn't make it I cann't, guess shows what kind of people really watch these shows.  yesterday threw a pillow at tv, because a tv hunter looked right in camera and dared to say, "I know it looks like we have fun and live the life, but it gets hard carrying all the stuff, camera and extra stand and travel to these places".  I am serious, he was complaining, wow.  Bowhunter tv is still pretty good, babe winkleman.  I would do more of a bowhunting wide world of sports.

[GANGGREEN]

I dislike almost everything about almost all of the hunting shows on TV.  In addition to what's been mentioned, there's almost always bait on the ground in the deer hunting episodes (and I recognize that it's legal in some places and I don't want to argue the ethics of it) and that many of the hunts are on high fenced areas.  

It reminds me of the time last year when I was in a local coffee shop and a couple of "dudes" in a marked truck came in, obviously wanting to talk with all of the locals.  One of them finally plucked up the courage and mentioned to the locals sitting around that they were on their way to the local boar hunting preserve to film a TV show.  With a completely straight face I told them to come up to my place after they were done with the boar because I had a bunch of Highland cows in a pasture that they could shoot for money.

I do occasionally see a bird hunting show that I enjoy but almost everything else is too fast paced, too commercial and too fake for me.

[yononindo]

As for EUROPE:

we don`t have hunting shows on tv.


But do I get this right !!!

You folks have to pay to watch it ???

If that is the case I don`t get it.

With all my respect - why paying for something that you don`t like !!!

It is up to you .

NO SPECTATORS  NO SHOW !!!!

[sweeney3]

I don't even own a tv, so I see very little television.  Occassionally at friends' places I might see a bit by accident.  Of the "hunting" shows I have seens bit of, none have been interesting and most have been offensive.  Someone mentioned "The Wild Within".  While I can't personally attest to the quality of the show, a fly fishing aquaintance whose opinion I trust and value highly reccomends this show.  It's not traditional/primitive bowhunting so far as I know (it might be sometimes?), but it apparantly is fair, respectful, and appropriate from what I have heard.  If I were to try and watch a hunting show, I would try to seek out this one.

[JohnV]

I agree with the positive comments for the Wild Within. Even non-hunters enjoy watching this show.

In contrast, I am sick and tired and quit watching all the idiots on the hunting channels that for the most part are one long infomercial. Hey, let's get Billy Mays out of the cemetary and give him a show to promote! Who are all these people with their tv shows? I mean, we never heard of any of them, for the most part, before they showed up on some tv show acting like a full-fledged idiot and self-promoter.

[wtpops]

Originally posted by yononindo:
As for EUROPE:

we don`t have hunting shows on tv.


But do I get this right !!!

You folks have to pay to watch it ???

If that is the case I don`t get it.

With all my respect - why paying for something that you don`t like !!!

It is up to you .

NO SPECTATORS  NO SHOW !!!!

Most of these shows are seen on satilte tv and the channels come as a package and most of the time about 75% of the package is junk, they dont sell them ala-cart, I wish they did i would only be paying for about 6 channels.

[JDinPA]

Back in 1998 I won a contest from Walmart where I got to go on a 4 day hunting trip with the biggest show at the time. The hunt was a celebrity hunt where sports stars and country music stars attended.
The celebrity who ran the show was nice, but he was a "tv star" not a hunter in my mind. It opened my eyes so to speak...

I had a good time and it was an experience, but I find the best hunting highlights are self made.