RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

None of it really has anything to do with the way or why I hunt as I do. I have fun and hunt for myself in the way I want. The old saying of "Hunt the Wind" is as true as it ever was. If you put yourself in the right place with the right wind you will win. If you don't, you have to get lucky or fail. That's hunting. The rest is sponsorship, marketing and a bit too much at times. I see where Datamax is coming from and have to agree with many of his points. All the TV shows have (out of necessity and in attempts to make lots of money) gotten more like infomercials. That's the good ole USA and business. Don't confuse the two folks. Hunting and what they say are two different things. Until someone just says I'll give you all the money you want with no strings attached.... the TV shows will be infomercials.

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

if you could have the perfect hunting video or tv show, what would you like to see?

whats most important? the editing, sponsors products, tips, how to's, the hunters, locations, type of dear taken, the story behind the hunt, etc....?

obviously, most of whats on tv is not what we want to see.....or it can be improved upon....

any productive suggestions would be appreciated....

-hunt high
[northeast ridge runner]

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

I got to tell you, it's good to know not evrybody has succumbed to the 'trophy' mentality. I get so tired of the arrogant, greedy attitude that so many of them have.They need to replace hunting with farming. Words like scouting, scrapes, sign interpretation,etc. have been replaced with soil ph, fertilizer, and foodplots.These guys on many of these tv shows annoy me the most. They go and let someone else do their scouting. (if you call sitting ina 'condo' over a field and setting your watch to time when the buck, who they've watched since his days in the pen and have given a name, and can describe to a 't' just what kind of rack and have already 'scored' him on the hoof, ad nauseum)Then their 'guide' drives them to the base of thier 'stand', and sits with them to tell them when and what and how to shoot. Next, the buck comes out like clockwork(Surprise!) The 'guide' says , yeah that's the one we're looking for!, so the 'hunter' takes the shot and gets all serious looking and has that certain'I'm the man' look on his face as if we're all supposed to be so impressed that he just took another 'trophy'. Your term , prostituting , is exactly what it is and it will be the downfall of out great heritage if the trend continues to expand. I wonder if most of thes guys could even remember how to find their way in and out of some real woods!

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

I think these shows actually do some harm in what a new hunter precieves asthe way hunting should be. I watch the Men's Channel sometimes and usually fall a sleep during the first show. Wish someone would tell Penn's Woods that there are other animals to hunt beside turkeys!!! [:'(] :D My 6 year old daughter will sit for hours and watch these shows while I am snoozing.

In thelast few weeks,she is just fascinated by the thought of killing a big buck. Just for fun, I asked her how biga buck would have to be to shoot it. She looked at Tyler's first bow buck ( scored 123 and is a 4 pt (WC ) ) and said it would have to be a lot bigger then that becausehis buckistoo small. That one floored me!! She was dead serious.

She also will make comments on the bucks that get shot in the shows when I am not sleeping through them. Very few are big enough for her taste. She can't see why they shot themwhenall they talk aboutin the beginning of the show is a goal ofshooting a big buck only to shoot something that would barely make 110 - 120 if that.

I am going to have to quit letting her watch the shows andunbrainwash her or the next thing... we will only be able to hunt with a guide ( which they also push in every show )when she is old enough to hunt!!!

I did a lot of explaining to Tyler when he was youngwhile watching the shows since most of these shows are not the way I hunt or what I think hunting is all about. I should have been paying more attention with what my daughter was getting out of these shows. I want her to enjoy her first years of hunting. Not worrying about if the buck is big enough to shoot!! Young minds are impressionable, just make sure you are the one shaping it and not some hunting show. Lesson learned with her.

Tim

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

One I learn something from.
Something besides the price and location where I can buy what ever commercial product they are pimping that day.

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

I watch some not all of course, but if you dont like it, why dont we get together and make our own hunting video's, we got people here that hunt in each state just about, we could get our own sponsers, and hunt on peoples land that will let us off of the forum. Just a thought!
T.F.

RE: the Dream Season ? puked my guts out
 

[:@]I'm glad to see a lot of people here putting down the SPORT that we love. Every hunting show has SPONSERS get it? They support them like we do hunting. If you don't understand that that's to bad. This is just my opinion. Hunting is hunting and hunters putting down other hunters is not good.