what i hate about tv , is that there are too many advertisements , and the shows go by so quickly , as for magazines , not enough photos to go along with the story

Comercial, climb in treestand, 5 minutes later ( or 4, or 3 or 2) a big buck comes in, buck is shot, show over, now time for another comercial.
Take care, good hunting and god bless you and yours.

Try watching any of the shows put on by Penn' s Woods. These guys really do it the right way, no canned hunts, with a majority taking place on public land in PA and OH. These guys do plug their own line of calls and scents, but they have no problem filming and producing a hunt when the biggest animal taken is a 6 point buck. Definately a reality hunting show.

I hate watching shows where they shoot " tame" animals. They get the game animals used to being fed and then come stand in a blind and shoot the them while they' re eating. Real hard to do.

Another thing I hate. They whisper all the time. Even after they' ve dropped the animal. They' re patting each other on the back about the animal they just dropped and they' re still whispering.

And do they actually take care of the meat of the animals they drop? When it' s a night shot and they have to have all those pictures and film to show on television. Do they take care of the meat or let it set so they can have better light the next morning. Always wondered how they do that.

I have an idea for a movie but I don' t want to give it away.
I know what I would want to see in a hunting video and any of you who hunt, and I mean actually hunt with your instincs and skill and less hardware and gadgets.
I' ld like to see it from my eye' s point of view so when I watch it I get that feeling that I' m reliving an actual hunt that I would have typically done.

After all reliving the memory is the thing that you' ll do more than anything in your lifetime and bringing back the feeling of that memory is what makes us feel good.
If a show can do that than it' s done it' s job.
If it makes me think back to a feeling I had when I shot my first buck and what it was like when I told my brother who was my teacher in the field and
what it was like to drag it a half a mile out of the woods to where the old man was eagerly waiting to hear the story and to know weather he should go get the old 1940' s jeep or not and what it was like to cut and care for all the meat and then to finally sit down with family and enjoy and be proud of that wonderful thing called venison or other wild game that you alone had gleaned from the woods on the outskirts of town.
And best of all, the look on all those older hunters faces that were laughing at the holes in my hunting attire and making fun of my old army boots, when they counted all the points on that buck and the heart I held up with the hole right through the middle.
Yea recreate that and you got yourself a show......
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS,

oldelkhunter, I beg to disagree with you on the subject of guides using Swarovski optics. I have been on several hunts where the guides used them.

On a hunt in Idaho, the guide used Swarovski 10X42 binocs. In Texas, the guide used 8 X 56. In Alberta and BC, both guides used them. On the latest hunt in BC, my guide used a Swarovski spotting scope and a pair of 10 X 42 binoculars.

Guides who are really professional spend money on their optics. More often than not, I find they have better stuff than I do when it comes to binoculars and spotting scopes. Their other gear may be a bit spartan, but they spend money on what makes them money.

As to hunting shows, I seldom watch them. I had one experience where I was on a hunt where one of the " Great White Hunters" was filming footage for a show. It left a horrible impression on me when they dragged a buck around for three days and wasted the meat (spoilage). Most of these guys are self-promoters of the highest water. Hunting is just a business to them. If it doesn' t make them money, they aren' t interested.