ORIGINAL: trytan74
The land owner is selling these deer. Call it outfitting if you like but it is a bussness and the guys hunting is the customers. You might say they didn't pay for this but trust me someone somehow payed for this hunt and the landowner was getting something for it.
2) This is a compition whichI don't really like seeing hunting turned into.
In short this whole show is a slap in the faces of true hunters.
Trytan
I don't know this for fact, but I would be willing to bet the land owners are willing to let the show take place on their ranch for plublicity and advertisment.
Outfitting is more than a money making business. The deer heard has to be managed right to have those big bucks consistently year after year. If you kill the 100 - 120 class bucks you have created a hole that will hurt the heard in a few years. Those bucks they killed seemed to be 1.5 - 2.5 year old deer. They had good genetics to have antlers that size at that young. Now those good genetic bucks can't reproduce. It is a domino effect.
That one messed up buck that MN took IMO was a good management buck. I personally wouldn't want those genes floating around in my ranch.
I thought it was total disrespect that the PA team went against the wishes of the owners. Complete hacks if you ask me.