Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
12-03-2008, 08:50 AM
#31
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 122
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
ORIGINAL: teedub31
Just rememeber that the paid advertising is what is allowing you to watch those shows. The subscription rate for any cable or network hunting show is always gonna be low. If the channel can't make money from ads, they will make it from you in the way of $30 per channel subscriptions. So pick you poison $360 a year to watch an hunting/outdoors channel or put up with ads in order to keep your individual cost down.
ORIGINAL: gypsybill
I agree. The advertising ruins most of it for me.
I agree. The advertising ruins most of it for me.
On the other hand, I kind of like Gettin Close with Lee and Tiffany. Well, not Lee so much but I sure like Tiffany.
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12-03-2008, 09:26 AM
#33
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Sydney, AUS / Miami, OK
Posts: 289
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
ORIGINAL: gypsybill
It is not that they all carry Encores that bother me but that they mentionthem so often. It seems that they cannot make a shot with referring to their trusty Encore which made it all possible. I feel like they are blantantly pushing the gun at every opportunity and it makes the show less enjoyable for me. I have never considered an Encore because of the above, but since you seem so impressed with them I may have a look.
ORIGINAL: teedub31
I am not a paid schill for TC, butthe reason why you see so many of them carrying Encores might have to do with the Encore being a extremely high quality gun. Sure it is a single shot, but that is all I need. My Encore has yet to let me down (which I can't say about my Winchester or Remington guns) and is why I always recommend Encores to anyone looking for what I consider an impecable hunting package (if they have the money).
ORIGINAL: gypsybill
They also seem to have endless commercials and really are endless commercials in themselves. Is an Encore rifle the only rifle that anyone hunts with any more? I have kind of enjoyed Roger raglin lately but his last show was so full of shameless promotions I turned it off.
They also seem to have endless commercials and really are endless commercials in themselves. Is an Encore rifle the only rifle that anyone hunts with any more? I have kind of enjoyed Roger raglin lately but his last show was so full of shameless promotions I turned it off.
and gypsy i think you will enjoy an Encore, they are a wonderful gun to play with
12-03-2008, 10:25 AM
#34
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Southern Illinois
Posts: 48
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
This is NOT hunting as I know it. Not in the real world where most of us live and hunt.
It does inspire us to go out looking for those "awesome" "monster""truly magnificent animals".
But the fact is that they are raising these deer --for profit-- and rarely, ifever, will wesee any of that calibre.
Call it management? Yes the term applies, butthere is a portion of this that isjust business.
I always listen closely for the slip-ups when they refer to deer hunting as"the industry".
I quit subscribing to a certain magazine thatalso put out videos of the "master hunter" who isout enjoying himself using products that seemed to have been donated or supplied for free,by the company that made them, in return for a plug in the video.
Not to single anybody out 'causemost of them are guilty.
"Thanks to blah blah blah for the use of the their great newwhatchamacallit with automatic yada yada yada..."
I just feltthat buying thier magazines and junk... that I was financing these guys to go out and do things for free that I probably will never be able toafford.
So you're thinking: Man! I would love to shoot one like that! Well, get youself a deer hunting gadget and mass produce it. Then get yourself on a video and just sit back andwait for a bunch of suckers to finance your recreation.If you do have to buy your own stuff orpay for a canned hunt... you can always claim it as a business expense.
My problem is that I'm a fan of the deer. I like watching the deer.
I must admit also that there are things you can learn and use that are laced in with the commercialism. (Sort of like the sugar coating on a bitter pill.)
...end of rant...
It does inspire us to go out looking for those "awesome" "monster""truly magnificent animals".
But the fact is that they are raising these deer --for profit-- and rarely, ifever, will wesee any of that calibre.
Call it management? Yes the term applies, butthere is a portion of this that isjust business.
I always listen closely for the slip-ups when they refer to deer hunting as"the industry".
I quit subscribing to a certain magazine thatalso put out videos of the "master hunter" who isout enjoying himself using products that seemed to have been donated or supplied for free,by the company that made them, in return for a plug in the video.
Not to single anybody out 'causemost of them are guilty.
"Thanks to blah blah blah for the use of the their great newwhatchamacallit with automatic yada yada yada..."
I just feltthat buying thier magazines and junk... that I was financing these guys to go out and do things for free that I probably will never be able toafford.
So you're thinking: Man! I would love to shoot one like that! Well, get youself a deer hunting gadget and mass produce it. Then get yourself on a video and just sit back andwait for a bunch of suckers to finance your recreation.If you do have to buy your own stuff orpay for a canned hunt... you can always claim it as a business expense.
My problem is that I'm a fan of the deer. I like watching the deer.
I must admit also that there are things you can learn and use that are laced in with the commercialism. (Sort of like the sugar coating on a bitter pill.)
...end of rant...
12-03-2008, 10:43 AM
#35
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Posts: 1,401
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
The only way to change things is to change your viewing habits. If you don't watch the shows then they will go off the air.
I try to make it a point to watch the good shows that are out there. There are still several shows that actually have decent content in them. My personal favorite is Quality Whitetails Television. Sometimes they will have an entire episode on habitat management without even shooting a deer. Sometimes they only show a doe harvested. I would bet less than 1/2 the shows actually have a buck harvested at all. But a lot of folks probably don't watch it for that exact reason, it isn't a show about big bucks walking by and getting shot.
I do watch a few of the others and I'm curious where you are seeing the shows with the big feeder in them? I thinkthe outdoor channel has a specific provision that does not allow a show to air footage with a deer being killed at a feeder.
I try to make it a point to watch the good shows that are out there. There are still several shows that actually have decent content in them. My personal favorite is Quality Whitetails Television. Sometimes they will have an entire episode on habitat management without even shooting a deer. Sometimes they only show a doe harvested. I would bet less than 1/2 the shows actually have a buck harvested at all. But a lot of folks probably don't watch it for that exact reason, it isn't a show about big bucks walking by and getting shot.
I do watch a few of the others and I'm curious where you are seeing the shows with the big feeder in them? I thinkthe outdoor channel has a specific provision that does not allow a show to air footage with a deer being killed at a feeder.
12-03-2008, 10:59 AM
#36
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Posts: 92
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
Try watching Heartland Bowhunter.. very innovative hunting show in my eyes and its the only one I will watch. These guys manage their own farms, and rarely see them hunt with outfitters. They even show their doe hunts on tv so that ought to tell you something. Check it out.
12-03-2008, 12:58 PM
#38
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Phenix City,AL
Posts: 126
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
My favorite show is that older guy (can't think of his name) but he only hunts public lands all over the country and only hunts with a long bow. He practices fair chase and preaches everyone do the same. Alot of his shows he won't even get a kill.... but like I said all of his shows are on public lands. He'll get a map, do his homework and go out and HUNT.
12-03-2008, 01:02 PM
#39
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 10,277
RE: Sick of Hunting Shows!!!
A show like that sounds fun. But most folks just want to see the huge buck drop money shot even if there is no real challenge. Its just like porno. Folks want to see a hot chick getting busy even though it is mostly fake instead of watching a show where a real guy tries successfully to score with the chubby waitress at the Waffle House.[&:]