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Old 11-19-2005 | 09:53 PM
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Default RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest

Maybe they're just not shown in my area or maybe I just don't pay close enough attention, but I've never seen a fence in any of the shows on ESPN or The Outdoor Channel.

I've also met several guys who film their hunts for shows who go hunting on the same pieces the "rest" of us do. Granted it was in Illinois and not Massachusetts, but filiming a hunt in Massachusetts could take you a month and a half and you might still come up with nothing. (Well not ME, but maybe YOU )

My biggest peeve about "hunting" shows is the blatantly fake "tracking". Just yesterday I saw one where the guy clearly spined the deer as it went down like a ton of bricks in the middle of a field with the arrow sticking straight out up in the air. Cut to the scene when he says "I've got a deer down out here somewhere....let's go find him." What? Does this guy have amnesia and forget the thing is laid out in the open with his fletching standing up in the air like an ice-fishing tip-up flag gone off?

When he gets there, saying "there his is, over there...", the arrow is nowhere to be seen. I always knew these stupid scenes were faked, but COME-ON!


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