Say you guys were a member on the non hunting public. Didn' t really like it but as long as you didn' t have to see it you were ok with it.

Now you watch this show and see an extreme close up of a hen phesant, although already dead, gasping for its' last breath. Also it' s legs shot off and all of the blood on the hunters arm. Also the lady breaking the phesants neck to give it the quickest death possible. But all you see is her twisting an animals neck until it snaps.

You also see the host of the show petting a dead bear and almost break down into tears while on camera.

You see cruel acts of a pigeon / turkey shoot portrayed as hunting and that' s the " hunt" that turned a hunter to an anti hunter. And now you think you will take up this fight also.

You see " trophy hunters" portrayed as hunting for no other reason than to hang a head on their wall. Nothing ever gets mentioned about the fact that none of the meat gets wasted. The natives, native grocery stores etc. eat and sell the meat for food.

You see the elk hunter bad mouthing other hunters because they shoot the bigger animals and don' t hunt just for the meat. Although that is still their main reason for hunting.

You see caged bears and partying college students harrassing the bears and now associate that with hunting.

You see this wacko flying around in his glider harrassing the goose hunters and even though he was arrested you think it' s ok and worth the risk to do this if it will save one single goose.

The idiot prefessor fom Boulder shows domestic dogs and the way thay act and now think that wld animals act just like this. Nothing gets mentioned about how the animals face these " stalking" animals every day of their lives. He would also get the highest power rifle and shoot an animal from the longest distance so as not to cause any stress on the animal. Never mind the fact that he would probably just end up wounding the animal and never finding it. But this is ok in his book.

Now how would you feel about hunting after this?

hey im a joe from jersey also and i would like to get me one of those bears. what a waste to destroy such a awesome creature like they had to.hunting is the only answer . my buddy at work has the scanner frequency for fish and game and we listen to the officers on occasion and we have known this to be a big problem for years up in the greenwood lake area and others. when the bears get into a crop they said it looks like a tornado hit it.also the bears love to eat llamas and pets. as far as the show i thought it was pretty fair but leaned a little twords the antis. all life is sacred and whats the difference between stepping on a bug or cutting a live tree down. we have been hunters and gatherers for 97% of human history and its in our blood. as long as we keep building and increasing populations its the animals who are getting the raw deal. hunting is the only way to way to do the job right!

Me too bob, the caged bear part, allthough I agree the bear was kinda being harrassed, it was pretty irrelevant to Hunting in America. And the pigeon shoot was disgusting and I can' t see how that AR guy would take that and let it ruin his entire view of hunting. No, I saw how it did but if it was me I wouldn' t have took the same path. I would have said no, I am different. Of course that whole pigeon shoot deal was probably from years back and wouldn' t go today.

I watched from where the hunters were blood trailing the deer through the animal rights part but left my house at a comercial break. I though they did a pretty good job. It didn' t seem biased at all nor has anything I have seen on National geograchic seemed animal rightsy-anti hunterish.

I mainly agreed with it but no animal rights propaganda could ever get me to give up hunting. I know animals feel hapiness, pain, feer and whatnot. I know that they suffer. How do I know? They guy is right: " they cry" .

But that' s not it. That' s not why I accept hunting as being morally OK. It' s not because I believe animals are inferior to me. Because they neither are or are not.

Hunting is just simply fun just like fishing is fun. Trying to catch a fish is like trying to get an animal. Hooking a fish is fun just like how seeing and getting to shoot at an animal is fun. And landing the fish or getting the game makes it even better.

And Oh yeah! I love hunting with dogs and that clip of the dogs taking down the elk in england was BAD A$$![8D]

i have a post in the offseason about it....but got lost and came to the big game forum somehow lol.....but i seen it...and i agree it made us hunters look horrible.....the first video of the guys in NY got my heart going though...but they showed anything bad they could.....i thought it was horrible.....you can tell it was funded by anti hunting groups....what does the inhumanity of a bear have to do with hunting in america? NOTHING they just wanted to show how other people treat animals!!! i think that show was definantly anti hunting.......and if it wasnt they need to rethink what huntings about.....

I took that section of the show as a reason for hunting bears in Jersey. That bear was killed by authorities because it was fequenting a house. I thought it had to do with the overpopulation of bears in the area with no hunting management program. To me, the ranger seemed pretty disgusting that this animal had to be wasted the way it was instead of being hunted.