I grew up in Wisconsin, not too far from Alma where the show was filmed, and I have hunted quite a bit in MN as well. This is typical of many hunting groups/families in the midwest during fire arms season.

When I was younger, I thought sitting on a stand was boring, you saw maybe a couple of deer all day. I couldn't wait for the drives to begin on day two. As a walker you could talk to the guys on either side of you if you wanted, you saw deer, many of them doubling back and busting right past you. As a stander you often saw a dozen or more deer per drive, not always in a safe shooting situation, but at least you got to see deer, and yes sometimes you would kick that old buck out of his hiding spot.

Now that I am older, more patient, and have taken up bowhunting I prefer stand hunting, and our firearms season group rarely puts on drives anymore as our number of hunters has declined., The program was a good representation of the typical 9 day firearms season that we have in Wisconsin and how many many familes hunt. You might not agree with it (in fact I don't always agree with it), but it works, can be quite entertaining for young and old alike and is safe. Almost a million hunters in Wi and not one firearms death last season, in fact since 1980 the # of injuries has been on a steady decline, I think in part to hunter safety, better equipment and blaze orange requirements.

That show didn't do justice to this style of hunting but without the camera man being in the right place at the right time how could it?And all that blaze really looked bad on TV. As for the shots at a deer on top of the ridge? At first I thought "Unsafe" but then I realized that the camera man was at the bottom of the hill looking up, from that angle you couldn't tell if the deer was a buck/doe, what angle they were shooting from, or what the backdrop was like.