lmao TC, perhaps if you came up with a scoring/rating system for them and had an abnormally large collection?

Forget the hunting vids, ever wonder why the only national ones are mainly folks like Real Tree, Mossy Oak, Primos, Bushnell, Remington etc...? The films are simply advertising tools to sell products and in most cases they actually lose money on the films. I was told by a very good source a couple of years ago that Primos will spend in the six digits each year making, filming and producing their tapes. If they didn't sell enough calls to make the investment back they wouldn't be around!

The only true "big money" makers in the sport are besides the big hitters like Real Tree, Mossy Oak and a few gunmakers are the "suddenly popular" gadgets and "just gotta have" items that spring up each season. A trend will get hot for 2-3 years and they sell like gangbusters and the owner/s of the company will live out of a suitcase for that period of time and get a stack of orders and a few dollars ahead and hopefully before the fad goes away someone with more money than sense (or a well backed competitor who would like to see them go away) will buy that product or company out and may or may not make it in the end.

Most "millionaire deerhunters" got that way via other endeavors and simply hunt on a largescale because they can afford to and also having the right connections and ties (ala Michael Waddel) is what you see alot of whether you realize it or not. Toxie Haas (inventor Mossy Oak) and Bill Jordan (inventor Real Tree) are some of the few selfmade millionaires in the business. They had a GREAT idea, alot of hard work and a VERY important aspect of success, TIMING and the rest is history. Alot of companies make a few in the industry millionaires on paper but until they sell the company too a large holding company, many of them will never reap the monetary awards of all their hard work.

If it were that easy ALL of us would be doing it!
RA