RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

He didn't miss that doe. He hit at 15 yards and searched all day for it. Never recovered the doe. Are you all saying you have never lost a wounded animal?? He hit the bedded doe at less than 20 yards. Not 35. The bow is not of his making. It isfrom Fox archery. His arrows are cedar shatfs that he finishes and tips with a Wensel Woodsman.

Yes, he has an ego. He'll be the first to tell you that. Whata lot of you are missing is the message he is trying to send. He hunts the hard way, no electronic crap, no scent elimination clothing, no spray, no hi tech gizmo's. Just his bow, arrow and playing the wind. Like it was when Saxon Pope and Art Young roamed the California woods with Ishi. Both learning the skill and art of traditional archery from the last savage man to walk the U.S. Or like Maurice and William Thompson stalking and hunting their prey in the Florida everglades with nothing but their home made bows and quivers filled witharrows.

What he is propmoting is getting back to your most basic human nature. To be a woodsman and a hunter. To hone your hunting skills, andnot rely on the latest crap sold at Cabelas. I switched to traditional archery years ago. Got rid of the compound and tree stands. I hunt from the ground or wear mocossins, made from my own deer harvest, to stalk my animals. It is hard! But the reward of a harvest is 100 fold. Improving my hunting skills is the biggest reward. No scent stuff. No crap from this doe pee or buck spray company. Just baking soda to wash my hunting clothes and hang them on a line outside to dry. Store them with oak leaves, acornsand dirt for a cover scent.

My harvests have dropped but, when my home made cedar arrow hits its mark and the harvest complete, I give the Lord a big thumbs up and a thank you for allowing me the experience of a hunt. End Quote



Exactly, I feel the same way, His point is you don't need all the gimmics. and hes right!!!

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

he just bugs the crap outta me

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

1) shoots traditional
2) does make his own arrows and probally works on other equip.Im sur
3) practices in his MOTEL ROOM.
4) probally gets paid to hunt
Attitude and ego asside I think for a bow hunter he's got it going on.

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

I don't care much for him as a TV host. He does seem little too cocky for his own good

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

Howard Hill wrote a book called Hunting the Hard Way. Just wondering if that offends anyone?

Of course he also used a Longbow.

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

If you shoot a compound, you have NO RIGHT to say anything about the way this guy hunts and shoots.

Until you committ yourself to shooting REAL BOWS and put down the wheels, you'll never understand just how hard it is. Real Bowhunting isn't drawing a 80% letoff 300FPS rocket launcher with a mechanical release and pulling the trigger after holding while the deer comes into your presence.

Whole 'nuther ballgame entirely

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

He is very annoying. I have often wondered the same thing, why does he always have a guide?? I guess I watch him for the same reason I have to look at a car wreck, you just cant turn away. I dont think ive ever seen him actually shot something. Most of the time he slings arrows around with very few finding their mark. Kinda question his ethics.


Even with that said, he does a good job on giving information on Public hunting land. I learned a little about public land I would have never know till I saw his show.

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

He does have the hairiest chest I have ever seen.. That thing looks like a putting green.

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

Buster T, I have no problem with the way he hunts and shoots. What I have a problem with is going on and on about , "the Barta way", and if you don't hunt HIS way you're just not a real hunter. He doesn't come right out and say it but the message is clearly there. I am currently looking for a trad bow and hope to hunt with one next year. So his methods are not the issue. well, except of course some of his ridiculously long shots. If he could narrate the hunt and shut up about MEMEME, I might even have some respect for the guy.

RE: Tred Barta... NOT the hard way
 

Now HCH.....really......

YOU go to an outfitter......the guide has already scouted your area.....hung you a stand.....and told you which way the deer are going to be coming from. He then stays there and helps you glass deer......then you shoot one. He helps (or does it all) the tracking......loads your deer......and then they process it for you.

Forgive me if this scenario takes about 90% of the "hunt" out of "hunting" for me.

I don't begrudge anyone using guides. I'm just saying....let's call a spade a spade. What part of my scenario isn't the truth?

I'm so sore today....my 42 yr old bones are cussing me. Why?.....besides the fact that I scouted my buck all year......set up in an area "I" thought I might get the best shot at him......I drug my buck out of the sh%t on Saturday....I loaded him in my truck, alone.....I unloaded him to field dress him.....I loaded him on the 4 wheeler to take into the woods to field dress. I loaded him back up......I hung him on the gambrel.....I caped him out and I processed him. THAT ENTIRE LITTANY OF STEPS contributes to the overall experience of "THE HUNT". It wouldn't mean NEARLY the same to me if it didn't go down, that way.

Again....I don't begrudge anyone using a guide. "I" am rewarded by the entire experience, though....and the part I'd be paying for.....is what I love the most. the killing is easy.

Just my .02......and I mean no disrespect.

jeff