What I have a problem with is going on and on about , "the Barta way", and if you don't hunt HIS way you're just not a real hunter. He doesn't come right out and say it but the message is clearly there.
You mean messages like the guys responding here to his shot selections, him missing or wounding etc ? You mean the guys saying he needs to shoot THEIR way ?
I've not watched but a couple of his shows, and he IS doing it the hard way. That he says it and implies it is 100% correct and on the nose.
Is honesty a bad thing ?
I am currently looking for a trad bow and hope to hunt with one next year. So his methods are not the issue. well, except of course some of his ridiculously long shots. If he could narrate the hunt and shut up about MEMEME, I might even have some respect for the guy.
If you're going traditional the way you look at compounds and bowhunting with them will forever change.
SBGobblers I agree however does it matter what bow is shot when a guide is used ?
Guys, I'm not anti-compound and I'm not anti-crossbow or anti-modern gun. What I'm saying is that I've been there, a die hard compounder who saw recurve and longbow shooters and poor shooters who fling a lot of arrows and don't fill tags often. I went traditional, I've been there, and I've done that, and I see the other side of what bowhunting IS.
Tred Barta might be like Ted Nugent, annoying, a mouth at times, and headstrong in his message. But that he hunts without compounds is a HUGE thing. Until ya'll try to hunt 3-4 seasons with a traditional bow, you just simply won't understand that it IS bowhunting, and its a seperate kind of hunting that having a compound in your hands.
And that aint trying to take away from a compound, killing deer with one is an accomplishment. Its just not nearly as difficult as hunting the traditional way