Noel Feather was one of the frontrunners of the hunting video industry. He was making videos when they really started getting popular. Heand Dan Fitzgerald did make a few videos together. November Madness and Whitetail Magic. They were really good videos for the time. ( Nothing like they are today, but back then they were really good). Then he had some of his own videos. The infamous Bitter Cold Bucks vols. 1 and 2, Butt Kicking Bucks and a few others. He was pretty much one of the few " bowhunting stars" of the time. I talked to him a few times at some shows and he really was a super nice guy. He was just a regular guy , worked in a foundry of some type I believe, who loved to bowhunt and started making videos and selling products. Like I said, he and Fitzgerald teamed up and did some stuff. Then unfortanately the quest for the almighty $$$ got the best of him, and the pressure to sell more videos and more products caused to him to resort to some illegal stuff and he got caught. He was busted on a few different offenses. One was that he had killed a deer in one state, and then transported it across state lines to check it in in another stateto claim the stste recoed in the stste he checked it in. Then the investigation revealed some other things.Namely the fact that,at least one if not both ( I don't recall for sure) of the Bitter Cold Bucks videos were filmed behind high fenced properties and that he actually bought captive bucks, and then advertised the videos as wild public land hunts . I remember the the receipts for the deer being shown in a hunting magazine at the time.
It was a shame because it ended his hunting carrer. I remember the season after it happened, I was at a Deer expo and he was there at a booth trying to sell his stuff, and there was nobody, and I mean nobody, visiting his booth. There were guys heckling him and laughing at him. It happened all day. The second day of the expo he was cleared out and gone. After that , he just pretty much dissapeared from the industry. Even though he was a nice guy, you can't feel sorry for him. He knew right from wrong, tried to dupe the hunting community and got caught. It was his own fault.
I do know that Fitzgearld distanced himself from him really quick. I heard a guy ask him about Noel feather at the Ohio deer and Turkey expo one year and Dan said " No Comment", and that was it.
I still ahve all those old vids. and break them out and watch them every once in a while. The only time I ever here of Feather is once in a while someone will bring him up on the forums , but that is it. I don't know if he is even still alive or not?