ORIGINAL: zarbaby
Since starting night shifts 3 weeks ago I've been watchin a sportsmans channel all night, every night, and what do I see ? A bunch of shows on high fenced areas, shooting deer over grain piles, shooting expotics on "game ranches" etc
Its pathetic. And they are taking young people and "initiating" them into hunting ? That aint hunting !
One last night was a kid in a big elevated tree house kind of thing, and I swear there were 20 different species walking around eating the corn on the ground, he shoots an axis, and the other animals pretty much stand around and watch. A guy drives up in a big double cab Ford and the animals move out of the way not unlike cattle do.
Gawd it was terrible, and its on every night it seems.
A few shows are still good, even though they hunt really prime areas with fences etc, the animals are still wild. Primos still comes across as hunting wild to me, but many of these other fools ?
I don't think we need them. I think we as a hunting communtiy are better off without them. If thats what we as a hunting communtiy have to do to keep the sport alive .............. then its already dead [:'(]
I really wish the TV sat channels and or HNI in it's advertising would take a stand against this type of false programming. They portray the shows as actual hunting conditions but with one small omission...they are not fair chase. The old timers realize that what is shown is nothing more than stagedkilling in front of a camera using captive animals. That stuff sells because they are all doing it but I chose tonot watch. I believe it sends the wrong message and the whole point of hunting is lost. I don't believe hunting as we know it is dead Zarbecause there are still people around who practice the craft like they were taught so many years ago. Will it stay that way for my kids generation...probably not. It seems the kids are more interested in MP3 players, gameboys and sat tv depicting hunting as their way to enjoy free time.