ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
Thanks for the explaination and a lot of it make sense to me. I do know of the egos sinceI have been in the same camp as a few. Not metioning names though.
FWIW though if they think they are fooling everyone, they are wrong.
Even I, as a somewhat experienced hunter watches something like what has menn mentioned, I am left with a FW% type of feeling. I question whether the actual kill was very accurate. Assumptions by the viewer aside, the viewer is left to believe he took the spinned animal with one shot if not even an explaination is given.
The makers of the show mayassume that everyone knows what happened, however, this may not be the case.
On a side note, I watched a show the other day where an indivual took a hard quartering to shot on an elk. There was no way that believe he even hit one lung let alone two which was whatwas seemed to be portrayed. [:@]
It's funny that you say if they think they are fooling everyone, because those egos in some cases cloud their judgement into thinking they are fooling everyone.
As far as the hard quartering to shot, I have seen far too much of that lately on TV and it really hurts everyone in the industry and all hunters in general.
What I would like to do in a perfect world is to show everything as it happens and what cannot be shown is explained so that the viewer has an accurate picture of what is going on. If the footage is good enough to be aired, it should be good enough to be portrayed accurately regardless of how I end up looking. I believe if you do that you will be more respected than if you try to pull the wool over someone's eyes. If the footage is so bad that you feel you have to manipulate it or lie, then you shouldn't try to air it.
Bad shots happen, and we owe it to the animals to do our best to make up for those shots as quickly and efficiently as possible. If it is being taped we owe to the animal to own up to our mistakes as hunters. JMHO