| Author | Post |
|---|
buffybr
HB Full Member
| Joined: | 31 October 2006 |
| Location: | Bozeman, Montana USA |
| Posts: | 41 |
| Photo: | | | Are you a handloader?: | Yes | | Favorite type of cartridge to load?: | I load everything! |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: 6 November 2007 08:06 PM |
|
I'll agree with most of what's already been said here. Some of the things that really turn me off about many of these shows are:
Over-reaction by the "hunter" to the kill. Jumping up and down, yelling and screaming about how great the shot was, or how much they've wanted that animal, then hugging and even kissing their guide. I think I'm going to puke!
I grew up in Colorado, and now live in Montana where baiting game animals is not legal. I don't see any "hunting skill" from sitting in a permanent blind or stand and shooting an animal that has come in to a feeding station, or to a pile of grain or alfalfa spread 10 yds in front of a "bow hunter's" blind.
I really don't like shows that make a competition out of hunting. To me, the competition in hunting is me pitting my skills to find and harvest the animal. It has nothing to do with competing against other hunters.
I have hunted turkeys and I first bow hunted almost 40 years ago, but I get sick of show after show after show on turkey hunting and some guy (or girl) sitting in a tree waiting to shoot a deer with their bow. I'm not arguing the legality of it, but I get especially sick of all the shows where the hunter is sitting in a tree over a barrel of bait, waiting to shoot a bear.
And I really get sick of programs that show 5 minutes of hunting, then 15 minutes of two idiots sitting around a fake hunting camp talking about how great their hunt was. Then 10 minutes of commercials, and they have filled a 30 minute show.
The biggest thing that turned me off about Jim Zumbo were't his assinine remarks about "assault" rifles, but the show(s) where he was in the Northwest Territories or the Yukon hunting Dall sheep and he kept complaining how hard the hunt was and how he'd rather be home on the flats. Then, he says he has a Wolverine tag in his pocket, he sees a Wolverine and makes a big deal about how he dosen't want to shoot it.
|
LilMag
HB Life Member
| Joined: | 29 September 2007 |
| Location: | |
| Posts: | 205 |
| Photo: | | | Are you a handloader?: | Yes | | Favorite type of cartridge to load?: | I load everything! |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: 18 November 2007 03:13 AM |
|
I agree whole heartedly that Tread Barta makes me want to simply change the channel in a big hurry! Jackie Bushman, wants TV land to believe he is the greatest of all those that hunt the big bucks! Nobody tells you, they have 8 people on the hunt looking for that big buck, who by the way was already spotted by the rancher or outfitter before Bushman ever left the house. Those boys just don't go hunting unless they know positively, there is a big buck on the property....Most all of them make me sick to my stomach
I will put a plug in for Eastmans Hunting Journal, they make mistakes too but don't try to cover things up and everything is fair chase, usually with a bow. I give that show a solid B for effort and area's they hunt in the wilderness.
|
Timberghozt
Board Founder
| Joined: | 11 February 2005 |
| Location: | Salado, Texas USA |
| Posts: | 5389 |
| Photo: | [Download] | | Are you a handloader?: | Yes | | Favorite type of cartridge to load?: | I load everything! |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: 18 November 2007 09:39 PM |
|
Man its been a long time since I made this post.I am glad to see it actually got some responses.
When I kill a deer and walk up to the animal I just killed,I tell the animal I am sorry for having taken its life...Yet I will honor it by eating it and that is how life is on earth,animals feed on animals..Its just part of the natural order and I am a carnivore..
I don`t do high 5`s and get all ignorant because I took an animals life.It was me and him,and I won..simple and plain..I don`t see it as a big spectacle event.I may take a few pictures,thats for me and I might share em with my friends but in the end,the memories of being alone and hunting the animal are mine as I prefer them to be.
Hunting for me is as much a time to be away from people as it is a time to be with my closest friends in camp..
But in the end when its killing time,I prefer to be alone and do the deed with just me and the life I take..No cameras,no bull shit,just me and the animal.
____________________
"He who fights with monsters might take care, lest he thereby become a monster; For if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." - F.Nietzche
|
Force_Recon_Marine
Administrator
| Joined: | 7 November 2006 |
| Location: | Alabama USA |
| Posts: | 1441 |
| Photo: | [Download] | | Are you a handloader?: | Yes | | Favorite type of cartridge to load?: | I load everything! |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: 19 November 2007 02:33 AM |
|
Timberghozt wrote: Man its been a long time since I made this post.I am glad to see it actually got some responses.
When I kill a deer and walk up to the animal I just killed,I tell the animal I am sorry for having taken its life...Yet I will honor it by eating it and that is how life is on earth,animals feed on animals..Its just part of the natural order and I am a carnivore..
I don`t do high 5`s and get all ignorant because I took an animals life.It was me and him,and I won..simple and plain..I don`t see it as a big spectacle event.I may take a few pictures,thats for me and I might share em with my friends but in the end,the memories of being alone and hunting the animal are mine as I prefer them to be.
Hunting for me is as much a time to be away from people as it is a time to be with my closest friends in camp..
But in the end when its killing time,I prefer to be alone and do the deed with just me and the life I take..No cameras,no bull s***,just me and the animal.
That was nicely put. 
____________________
Swift Silent Deadly
|
thelemite
HB Full Member
| Joined: | 24 September 2007 |
| Location: | Bethlehem |
| Posts: | 19 |
| Photo: | | | Are you a handloader?: | Yes | | Favorite type of cartridge to load?: | pistol |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
Posted: 5 December 2007 02:39 AM |
|
| Cops.
|
S.Shooter
HB Full Member
|
Posted: 16 December 2007 08:10 PM |
|
| I have yet to see a hunting show that I would tune into for a second time. Most I can't stand for more than the first five minutes.
|
Current time is 01:05 AM | Page:   1 2 |
|
