RE: I AM SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Here's my two cents. I watch the team Realtree and the Primos hunting videos. I love to see the big bucks and it gets me fired up for hunting season, even though I don't have a snowballs chance in Hell of seeing bucks that big on our land. The Primos guys and Bill Jordans gang all seem like nice people and look to be having a ton of fun. HOWEVER....anyone who thinks that these guys have the success they do and kill the size bucks that they do because they are just highly skilled hunters is very gullable. Most of these hunts are filmed on very exclusive, very expensive hunting ranches. The deer have had very little hunting pressure. They have been fed in the same field or at the same feeder since they were born. Most of these deer could have been easily killed at any time but have been passed on until they reached maximun antler growth. They talk a lot about scouting, scent control, stand placement and camo but the truth is that anyone with decent archery or marksmanship skills could kill the same size deer that they do. OH...that is if you have about 10,000 dollars to blow on a single hunting trip. Let them go hunting on public land. No guide, no semi-tame deer. Just them verses bucks that have managed to survive to maturity on land where they have been fair game since a horn first broke the hairline on their head. Let me see them down about a 150 class buck under those circumstances and then I will start listening to the tips they dole out. As it stands now though, I just like to look at the big horns and dream.