You're alive! Mike and I were just discussing last night that you have not been around much lately. Yes, we have nothing better to talk about than that. Sad, I know. But it's the off season! When does HB hit the air?

In any case, I don't know the exact dates yet. Once I find out I'll post them in this thread. I'm hoping to know shortly. I'm really excited that they went to a1 hour format and I'm hoping for some extended hunting footages on those episodes. I agree there was a little too much talking about how to enter, and recapping last week's episode. They got that same feedback from numerous people which is why they chose to extend the shows out to an hour. When you've got 13 teams hunting hard for 5-6 days straight you're going to have a lot more footage than you can use in 2 or 3 30 minute episodes that are really 23 minutes after you factor in commercials.

Fran - if you saw the uncut version of that footage you would laugh for sure. I knew he was going to shoot pretty quick because he's Todd and he's very impatient. I wasn't using a camera arm at the time and when the gun went off I jumped so bad you'd think I wet myself. Then when I tried to swing around the tree the shotgun mic hit a branch and made some god awful noise before I got back on the deer for the follow-up shot. It certainly wasn't the prettiest thing in the world, but we got the job done. If I recall temps were in the 20's and we had a pretty brisk wind. That night a nasty storm moved in and we got about 10" of snow, which is why those deer were up and feeding that night. Our footage from this past year was definitely a lot better. That was a learning experience for sure.