First, I don't watch cable television, so I do not watch the numerous hunting shows available on the years, on TV.
But early this morning I clicked into a local station, and one of their extra signals made available by HDTV. It was a hunting show.

I've enjoyed hunting for decades, but I could only take some three minutes of this "hunting" program. It was horrible. The acting was bad. They also made a couple of basic shooting mistakes. I saw mistakes at the rifle stand; the wrong overpowering rifle for a young shooter; a rifle flinch that was terrible. And I assume that this video was suppose to be instructive. I can see one short experienced hunter. Didn't the "experienced" film maker see it?

And who knows the number of big city viewers, getting their first "experience" with the joys of hunting. To put it in perspective, what I watched would have made one of those commercial informercials, high art.

After watching three short minutes, the loss of hunters in the U.S. doesn't seem so remarkable.