T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
11-19-2005, 06:18 AM
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Joplin Missouri
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T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
Don't get me wrong there's nothing better to me than scouting and setting in the woods all day. BUT some of these shows? There not hunting 10 yards away with the animals head sticking in a feed bucket. Or "Hunting" a lease where the deer are almost pet's hand raised in food plot's and seeing people is common since birth. The worst part is these guy's-Gal's are proud of there self for filming the shot. Let's see them go to the common wood that most of us hunt and have to actually HUNT. Some of these kinda make me sick and i feel sorry for the animal. How many of you have been to the woods 2 or 3 times in the same day and had heards of bucks walking within 15 yards and you pass the shot on a 10 point because you are waiting on a bigger one? There is several deer in my land that comes in the front yard but there no challenge and i drive 30 miles to actually hunt. These guy's look at the camera,Talk and move around like crazy. If i breath with a deer under my stand he's GONE.
11-19-2005, 07:05 AM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 9,175
RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
Unfortunately, it seems you don't quite realize what you're watching. Most of these shows are not 'hunting' shows. They are almost always 30 minute info-mercials for some canned hunt resort/guide service, not to mention the products they feature on the show.It's not abouthunting at all. Strictly about making $$$$$$$$ They don't make $$$$$$ unless they can show the stuff they're advertising works. Ethics be damned, something's gotta die or we're gonna losesponsors.
Ifirst sawit was all turning to garbagearound 20years ago when Allen and Keith Warrenstarted selling a tape called "How to Cash In On the Outdoors". They laid out the blueprintfortoday's hunting shows.
Ifirst sawit was all turning to garbagearound 20years ago when Allen and Keith Warrenstarted selling a tape called "How to Cash In On the Outdoors". They laid out the blueprintfortoday's hunting shows.
11-19-2005, 07:19 AM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
I have to agree, at least a little bit. There are a "few" shows where they don't care if the fence is in the frame, they show them walking up to a group of deer (animals) that just looks at the so called hunters less than 20 yards away without spooking and they are talking in normal tones, or the worst is when you see them drive the deer into a corner of fenced property. That stuff makes my stomach sick.
I don't think it is all shows, some I really enjoy. I guess that is tv for you, calling a tv show actual "hunting" is misleading. It's just video footage of some guys with weapons trying to shoot things. Some times that footage is captured during the actual "hunting" of animals other times it is footage captured purely to create the illusion of "hunting" animals. If you want to influence TV, that's easy, just don't watch it. If enough people do that the show won't be back.
I don't think it is all shows, some I really enjoy. I guess that is tv for you, calling a tv show actual "hunting" is misleading. It's just video footage of some guys with weapons trying to shoot things. Some times that footage is captured during the actual "hunting" of animals other times it is footage captured purely to create the illusion of "hunting" animals. If you want to influence TV, that's easy, just don't watch it. If enough people do that the show won't be back.
11-19-2005, 07:38 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Damascus MD
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
Well if you feel sorry for deer that are in fenced areas or whatever, do you feel bad when youre chomping down that steak or hamburger?? No one films steer while there are standing with their head in a feed bucket when they get harvested or killed for money and makes that a TV show. You probably should be an activest, same mentality. I dont believe in fenced hunts andNEVER will but if someone makes a business out of it then so be it, good for them, they buy/breed and raise deer/sheep, pigs, whatever,to make money just like farmers raise steers and chickens. I just choose not to go to these type of preserves. If you dont like watching the TV shows then turn the damn channel and watch Leave It To Beaver or whatever you in the mood for. Whats the problem here. Do you only have one cable channel? Maybe some people dont have "trophy" places to hunt and will pay to go hunt somewhere they know they can harvest a trophyanimal? Like I said, I dont like nor condone fenced hunting but its a legal business and thats that.
Heres a morality question for you Hoytvtec, do you, or have you ever watched pornography or looked at it in a magazine, answerhonestly? Do you condone strip clubs, porno mags or movies etc??? But you dont condone fenced hunting or harvesting animals that are fed like cattle, chickens, pigs, etc...?
Heres a morality question for you Hoytvtec, do you, or have you ever watched pornography or looked at it in a magazine, answerhonestly? Do you condone strip clubs, porno mags or movies etc??? But you dont condone fenced hunting or harvesting animals that are fed like cattle, chickens, pigs, etc...?
11-19-2005, 07:49 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Western Iowa
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
OK what about Drury outdoors. They say they are 100% fair chase, well I guess it would be fair chase cause the deer can always run to the other end of the fence. Hey I know there are some ethical issues about fenced hunting but I really like to watch these people harvest those big monsters. So I guess i will be damned also along with these other fellas.
11-19-2005, 08:37 AM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Warren, Pa
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
Those shows make me even prouder when I shoot a deer that can run on about a thousand acres of unfenced land. To me what they do is not hunting. But I like to watch the shows anyways.
11-19-2005, 11:05 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Chillicothe, Ohio
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
You have to pick and choose your shows. The Drury shows are the only ones I make a point of catching.
I believe that several, if not most, of these shows put our sport in a bad light and therefore we should be opposed to them.
Last night, I flipped one on and they showed guys getting of a truck and taking a shot at a Muley. Very sporting, indeed.
I believe that several, if not most, of these shows put our sport in a bad light and therefore we should be opposed to them.
Last night, I flipped one on and they showed guys getting of a truck and taking a shot at a Muley. Very sporting, indeed.
11-19-2005, 02:24 PM
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RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
Hoytvtec,
I was thinking of starting a post exactly like yours. You couldn't have said it better. Everytime I try to get my wife onboard and appreciated what I do as a hobby, shes watches one of these shows and it makes her sick. I must say I get pretty sick myself and it is embarrasing that other people who don't know are sport think this is really what we do when we are gone in the woods for 4 days. Others can justify it as $$$ of whatever else, but that's because that's all they know and how they were raised. Most who don't see anything wrong with these shows, don't have a clue how much effort it takes to perform a real hunt. I can see having it for younger kids with short attention spans, but to see these adults whispering and acting like they are really sneaky makes me wish the deer was armed. Train the deer for weeks to a certain location, with the ground blind already in position. Then along these great white hunters come. They take that "long" 200 yard walk from their truck, sit in the blind and BAM! Ya, that's a real man and a mighty hunter for sure. NOT! How do they have the heart to do it on camera and then smile when it's all over like they really put out allot of effort. I could go on for days, but enough said.
I was thinking of starting a post exactly like yours. You couldn't have said it better. Everytime I try to get my wife onboard and appreciated what I do as a hobby, shes watches one of these shows and it makes her sick. I must say I get pretty sick myself and it is embarrasing that other people who don't know are sport think this is really what we do when we are gone in the woods for 4 days. Others can justify it as $$$ of whatever else, but that's because that's all they know and how they were raised. Most who don't see anything wrong with these shows, don't have a clue how much effort it takes to perform a real hunt. I can see having it for younger kids with short attention spans, but to see these adults whispering and acting like they are really sneaky makes me wish the deer was armed. Train the deer for weeks to a certain location, with the ground blind already in position. Then along these great white hunters come. They take that "long" 200 yard walk from their truck, sit in the blind and BAM! Ya, that's a real man and a mighty hunter for sure. NOT! How do they have the heart to do it on camera and then smile when it's all over like they really put out allot of effort. I could go on for days, but enough said.
11-19-2005, 02:29 PM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Wyoming, Michigan
Posts: 268
RE: T.V Hunting turning me into Activest
what pisses me off about those shows is when the make a horrible shot and are proud of it. And if you can find the bloopers of those shows you get to see how many they miss before they finaly get one. and the only reason they probly find those deer are because they have dogs trained to track them...