RE: most hated tv hunting scenario
This reminds me of one video that i watched a while ago where a guy was on a guided elk hunt during the rut and calls in a monster bull. He is hunting with a rifle, which I am not used to during the rut. The bull comes right into the call in a thick wooded area in just minutes. Not only does the bull come right into the call, but it is literally 15 feet from the hunter. The hunter leans around the tree, unclicks his safety (which can be heard on the camera and the camera is farther from the hunter than the elk), and the hunter shoots the elk with a high powered rifle. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but that just doesn't happen. To me, that's not hunting. Elk hunting during the rut to me consists of usually hours of calling just hoping for a 20 yard shot with a bow, where one little screw-up will cost you a shot, such as moving slightly or a small clicking noise. Its videos like this that make elk hunting look easy or unfair, and elk to be a stupid animal, which they are not. Anyone that was REALLY elk hunted knows this.