RE: SPIRIT OF THE WILD A WASTE OF A SHOW?
Ted's show has about as much to do about hunting as This Old House has to do with construction. Sitting in a blind on a pay/lease ranch behing high fences where you pick the buck/pig/exotic you shoot has NOTHING to do with hunting, at least where I live, and I think it hard to call anything about it "Wild."
Ted talks up his mentor Fred Bear, but I bet Fred would not have a lot of good things to say about the show and the way Ted portrays hunting. Personally, I think Ted has gon way around the bend and has forgotten about what hunting is really all about. Sure he talks about the woods, smells, purity...until that pen-raised buck gets pushed by so he can shoot it in front of the camera. Personally I would like to see ol' Ted spend a few days trying to bust a big whitetail in the UP like some of us do.