You know... I stopped watching hunting shows years ago. They are not what true hunting is like on public land!

I have met (they autographed my hat too) a bunch of "pro" hunters at those outdoorsman shows at the expo center in town, over the years:

Michael Waddell
David Blanton
Stan Potts
Greg Miller
Larry Weishuhn

And you know what? They are just ordinary guys who got lucky enough to make some serious $$$$ by being on TV. I am not impressed with their hunting ability, because all they do is hunt high priced game ranches.

I am willing to bet, you put any one of those guys out in the middle of the George Washington Nat'l Forest in Virginia where they just might see only a single deer, but not enough to get a shot off. So they have to carefully head it off and maybe they'll be able to get a shot. Those guys would get so frustrated, they'd probably quit!

Better yet, put any one of those guys on a public land WMA on any given Saturday, and watch them freak out. Watch their reaction to seeing like 9000 hunters per square mile, and the whole place has so much blaze orange, it looks like a freakin' pumpkin patch!

In a nutshell: Most of the TV "pro" hunters are spoiled, pampered, and will do anything for the camera. Get them off their game ranches and high fences where they'd have to work hard for their game, and they'd fall flat on their face!