Outdoor Channel?
 

Just wanted to know if any of you canceled the Outdoor chanel? I for one did last year. It made me sick. when a Hunter gets a shot at a buck of a lifetime, and then tells the camera man "I know there's bigger bucks out there, So I'm passing on this one" What the heck!! I'm lucky to see any bucks when I'm out there. Plus the wife said that the sat. company raised their rates yet again and she didn't see paying for a huntin chanel when we have two free.

Kinda miss Tiffany though:sad:

I probably wouldn't cancel the channel but I agree with you that some of the shows definately portray hunting in a very unrealistic way. And I definately WOULD NOT miss Tiffany. She is one reason I might cancel. Get's on my nerves.

Blessings.......Pastorjim

+1 on that one.

not to start anything.... just curious as to why people are hatin on the hottest girl in the woods! ok maybe thats a lil exageration but i mean she is a very attractive lady and she's killin big deer.. sure her husband puts her on them and she doesnt have to do much, but in reallity wats the difference in that and puttin your kid or wife on a deer
also, i am aware tht they let some BIG deer walk on their show, but i would do the same thing and i have a feeling many people would do the same..
say for instance, you have already filled some doe tags, so meat is not an issue, its november, your hunting an area where you have seen a great 10 in the last few days and a basket rack 8 walks by,, are you gunna shoot it or let it walk? i would assume most of the people on herewould let it walk in hopes of the big boy walkin by later..
that is just what they are doing,, they just have much bigger deer on their properties than most people....
im sure im about to get bombarded with people sayin that what they are doin isnt rele hunting, but im just saying that idk if they are doin it right or not, i havent seen any proof that they are hunting in pens or anything so i like to have faith in people until they give me a reason not to.

i agree. if everyone had those properties to hunt they too would pass ridiculous bucks. great entertainment as long as you dont expect the same thing to happen to you. tiffany is the best!

I cancelled 9 months ago, it felt like I was watching the same show over and over again. Lee and Tiff are great but after meeting them all in person Ralph and Vicki are the most down to earth and seem more appreciative of where they are. Nicole from driven is the most stuck up, fake person I met. No wonder no-one was waiting in line for their autographs at the Eastern sports show. I am just tired of watching these guys hunt on land where they are guaranteed big buck kills and do no homework for themself just follow what their guide tells them to do and when the buck they are after is going to appear in the outfitter's food plot. No where close to being what the rest of us experience and very little to learn from their shows because in the real world we face obstacles like other hunters, not enough acreage or not enough $ to plant enough food to keep the deer centralized like we see on these shows. Sorry to those who this offends but what the Outdoor Channel produces (for the most part) is no where close to what the rest of us experience.

Lee markets Tiffany as sex appeal for the show. That being said, I hate almost every hunting show. I don't really like watching deer hunting on a deer farm.

For me, I had to teach myself to hunt, I was 35 yrs old. No one in my family hunted. So I started from scratch. I thought that what I saw on these shows was the way it was kinda going to be. Boy was I surprised. After alot of trial and error. and surfin this web site, reading books, watchin vids, talkin to guys shopin in the huntin section at wal-mart etc. I,m proud to say I have two does under my belt. one with a shotgun, the other with a compond bow. Don't get me wrong, I do see bucks when im in the feild. but around where I hunt, if you pass on a desent buck, the guy huntin on the farm next to you won't.

My wife and I were just having this conversation the other night. She goes how come you always come home and say you didnt see anything? She said deer are all over the place, I see them hit on the road every year. That very night on two different shows either during the kill or while doing their little infomercial while displaying the buck a deer with a tag in its ear walks through the pictures. I told her thats why, its like those cow pastures you pass on the way to work. You see them everyday, you know where they are at various times of the day. You walk out there get in the stand, and wait til that exact minute some guy told you it would come out and you shoot it, put on the best surprised act you can, then advertise some product that doesnt work to suckers that will run and buy it.

my .02

I'll always remember my sons statement about watching the TV hunting shows. "They just set the average bowhunter up for disappointment". And he didn't mean "average bowhunter" as someone with less of a skill set but with less opportunity.
I used to watch them and he never liked watching them. After that statement I quit watching them. I think he's right. And its not sour grapes on his part, for a kid in his 20's he's got his head screwed on straight and has been very successful on the two spieces he's ever hunted, whitetail deer and black bear.

Dan

Too old and too long ago
 

Can't even save any new money. Cancelled cable tv over 25 years ago.
Back then someone called TV the vast wasteland. Must be still making some wasteland shows.

don't get me wrong, If I had the chance, I,ll would love to have the perfect hunting paradise. I'm very fortunate to hunt on the farm that I got permission to hunt. I do got some nice bucks on the trail cam. and I do pass on button and spike bucks. So maybe thats know differant then what the celebs on tv do, just on a diferant level.

I'm kind of in the same boat as you. I started when I was about 16, hunting only public land. I thought I should be seeing huge bucks like I saw in magazines at the time, when in reality not many of them were killed in the area I hunted. Any deer a person is happy with is a trophy in my mind. It's a time issue with me now, and point restrictions have helped our bucks mature, but any legal buck that gets close enough to me often gets an arrow through him. And I'm tickled to death to take him home.

+2, I like Melissa Bachman:happy0001:

You got to watch shows on the outdoor channel with a grain of salt, as long as you watch the shows with the understanding it's under perfect conditions and people with big wallets that can buy or lease huge properties to keep the animals fed with products that beef cattle farms use to put weight on their cows and then protected from getting harvested at a younger age. You could shoot deer of that quality. But those shows have changed the way we hunt, what we hunt with, and quality of products we use.

I don't know if I will ever cancel it, that's my only saving glory on the television.. Most of the time the lady is watching cooking shows or something about dancing, almost to the point where it drives me insane. A small glimpse at the buck at a lifetime will suffice, even if they do pass on it... it gets me away from dancing with the stars lol

I dont mind watching the huge bucks being taken on the outdoor channel because I keep reality in check. What I am watching is T.V. I dont hunt to kill huge bucks like on T.V. I hunt to fill my personal goals in the woods... #1 meat in the freezer and #2 a descent buck for my area. Its the thrill of the hunt for me, not the bragging rights of killing the state record. Dont get me wrong though that would be nice ;)

If i have time to sit down and watch a hunting show then I have time to do something hunting related. Everything from scouting to cleaning a gun, shooting a bow, gettn in the woods, checking stands, shining and the list goes on and on. Thats what i would rather do with my time.

I thought the Outdoor Channel would be worth all the money and other useless channels I had to accept to get it with Insight Cable here in my area but it was'nt, so I got rid of it. After watching most of the hunting shows It got old real quick. The story lines and hunting seemed pretty much the same only different hunters and sponsers thats about it. It useually wen't like this. The Stars show up looking like they just walked out of Bass Pro in all new gear,They get fed at the Outfitters Lodge,They get up are driven to the stand or blind,They shoot a big Buck,They go back and eat again show off the Buck and 15 commercials later the next show comes on and we repeat the process with different people and maybe a different animal. Now some of the Stars are more interesting than others and they seem like really great guys and gals but even that can't keep me watching some of them very long if they don't show more than bang or twang dead deer and thats what hunting is all about? This is why I now prefer to by DVD's that show more than the kill and more actual hunting with and without success which we all know is the norm.

I'll keep paying the $3 a month. The shows aren't perfect but they're entertaining. Sure its not reality for most of us. Sure they only shoot freak bucks most of the time. But that's often fun to watch. It's like those guys who write in to Field and Stream all pufffed up because they review expensive guns and hunting gear. You sell a lot more magazines talking about custom engraved, blued bird guns than my Remington 870 and I enjoy reading about them, even if I'll never likely buy one. Same applies to bucks. I'm happy to get a shot at a nice buck at home and maybe someday I'll tag a monster but I like seeing them taken on the shows for now. Also, I like how people bash Ted for hunting on high fenced ranches. How many if they had the money wouldn't purchase their own high fenced place and stock it with some whitetails, exotics and so on. Sounds like legal, good fun to me. Regardless of any big debate on ethics or what a true hunter is. He's having a blast and having fun arrowing forkhorns while some on these other shows are passing on 4-5 year old bucks.

It's a tough medium that will never be solved. The meat hunters will never conform to the ways of trophy hunters (or are able to do so) and vice versa to an extent, which is the underlying topic here. A lot of the people watching the hunting shows are a lot of the normal bloaks that dont have the opportunities that the professionals do. What makes them professionals and worthy of tv? mainly being put in the right situation aka 'who you know'. That being said, the issue of passing bucks for bigger bucks is not necessarily an ego thing or a selfish tactic (normally). being a big believer in Quality Deer Management i speak for myself (and many others) when i say that it is about growing a HERD to better your opportunities to grow those mature bucks you see on tv. Can public land hunters do that? unfortunately not, and a lot of people dont care. But for the rest, the main bother of seeing these guys pass and shoot Freaks is the fact that they don't have the opportunity to. There is no hating going on here, just that there are always two sides to the story. Short of inventoried buck farms, whitetail deer, hunted on fair chase shows, are still wild animals! do you know what it takes to even see a 5yr old buck besides luck? MOST of these people still do know their stuff, and are VERY skilled hunters for the most part. Watch Whitetail Properties on the sportsman channel. Lot of commercials but..those guys are legit

what bothers me about most of these shows is the over production. I would rather see a joe shmo that can barely talk to a camera but knows how to hunt, than an over produced hollywood type show with a spoon fed richy rich and his annoying wife all prettied up hunting...wait...no shooting deer which have been food plot fed and domesticated on one of many farms they own. oh wait these deer are " free range deer".

Ok u all are putting down hunting shows bc they are garenteeed a deer..ok but would u rather watch a hunting show tht shows no deer? I mean come on..ya its not completely real but thts entertainment..i watch hunting shows when i cant be out in the stand...its keeps me in the hunting mood..do i agree with high fence hunting? No but for hunting shows its hard not to..their job is to entettain..and entertainment isnt waiting weeks to see deer..they hve maby 5 days to get a deer b4 they are out money

I enojoy watching the shows but I ignore all the hype. For instance all the scents and new gear that people just have to buy to be a successful hunter, all garbage. I have friends that swear by all the crap they see on TV like, buck bombs, tinks this, golden that and they kill less deer than myself and my wife. I do the same as lee and I put my wife on the deer in hopes she shoots a nice one. I take what these shows say with a grain of salt and use my own experience and knowledge to kill mature deer.

My all time favorite show is Ted Nugents just because he tells it like it is and kills the deer for food not the game.

There are a lot of new products out there and its cool to see but myself and my wife use what is tried and true. Another thing I just love seeing is everyone of those shows using these perfect never had a problem Rage broadheads.

I laugh everytime I see these guys shoot deer in the middle of the day and then retrieve them that night when its pitch black out? Seriously tell me other people have picked up on this. The only deer I retreive at night are ones I made a bad shot on or ones that were shot at sunset.

Isn't that what "Dury outdoors" is doing with their "working man" series?

I watch more for the strategy that I learn and different techniques/tips that help kill bigger bucks more consistently. If you're hunting 40 ac there's a dominant animal in that area so if you aren't seeing him you're doing something wrong and he's probably gone.