RE: TV hunting shows.
If I could just see big bucks walking though the brush without all the idiot stuff, that would be enough for me. That's about the only reason I ever watch any of them.
I did see one show the other night where a guy was being led around by a guy on a Texas Ranch. He told about seeing a big buck that regularly came in to a dug pond. They sat there and sure enough a really good buck came in. He was shootingsome fancy muzzleloader and when the buck came in he said it was 70 yards. He took careful aim and shot. Then he said "I got him! He's hit hard!He's going down!" as the buck looked around and trotted off. After they looked around for a while, they decided it was a clean miss. That is just embarassing. I can't believe they put it on the air. A while later the guide spotted him another buck that had a crappy messed up rack and he shot it. Then he talked about the "charactor" the rack had and they noticed the deer was injured in the hind quarter and the deer'sfoot was messed up.