WV,
I agree with you. We should all strive to take high percentage shots. I think we owe it to the animals. As we mature as hunters we should learn some self control and not take shots that we would have when we were less experienced. But we still have to realize that they like us are human and long seasons, a desire to succeed, a deer appearing out of no where and you having to make a quick decision or watching a deer come in for a while and your nerves being frayed by the time he gets there or being at full draw for a couple of minutes with all of the above going make each encounter different and very difficult to say what we would infact do.
But I think the video making crews should take a little more consideration towards what they air
I agree with you whole heartedly that they should do a better job of codemning it when they do take a bad shot or just not show it. IMO
Some is flat out bad. My personal opinion, neck shots suck. Both bow and gun. Very low percentage.
I am with you. I never have liked a neck shot. There is just too many things to go wrong and the heart/lungs is just a much higher percentage shot IMO.
I guess mypoint is that yes there is alot of pressure on the folks filming these shows. Killing big deer on video can make or break them...and this can and probably does have an influence on some folks' shot selection.
I think you are probably right but I think it's probably more on a sub-conscious level than it is a conscious level (at least I hope so). I don't think they are standing there saying to themselves "I got to shoot this buck for video" but more likely they have thought about it so much and worried about it so much that they are sunconsciously thinking. I could be wrong though. I just normally don't have many thoughts running through my head at the moment of truth, other than the critter I am shooting at.