Are your hunts interesting enough for a TV Show?

Since I am just beginning to hunt, I feel as if all of my hunts are T.V. quality, mostly for my off-the-wall questions to my friend and making such a big deal out of taking that squirell (and asking what to do with it) or using 25rds per 1 dove....

I can't watch most hunting T.V. programs due to my hatred towards having advertisments shoved down my throat during the program, though duck/buck commander DVDs are fun to watch in my opinion.
 
If hunting weren't fun, I'd never have done it. And the camaderie around the campfire was a big part of the deal. Outside and campfire, not indoors in a rustic motel-like deal.

I don't like the TV emphasis on "The kill is everything!" And all that phony whispering BS turns me off. It's just studio voice-over, and the whispering just makes it silly.

Sorry. When I'm hunting, I sure don't need some doofus with a video cam pestering me...

Granted, the progreams' scenery is nice, and for those who don't have much outdoor time it at least allows some dreaming. Different strokes for different folks.
 
And now for an opinion that some will find offensive::D

If your hunts are boring, make them interesting by learning about what you are trying to hunt. Then when you go hunting, you can actually expect to compete with a deer in a battle of wits.

If you aren't in good enough shape to get out and hunt hard to find game, get off you fat behind and get out running for 3 months before you go hunting. There's nothing good on TV anyway!

If you sit in a treestand all day so you can ambush a deer, and that is your opinion of hunting, I feel sorry for you. Try hunting in Nevada or Montana, where there aren't very many trees. Besides, when you are hunting 8,000' above sea level, the running you did will help. A lot!

If you think TV shows are boring and unrealistic, get out of your house with a gun in your hand. You will find more deer outside your house anyway.

I'm with a few others here: it's not about the kill. I worked in a slaughterhouse for 3 years, and during that time I saw literally millions of cattle killed. If it were all about the kill, that should have been a dream job! You'll have to trust me when I say it was not.:barf:

I have seen a few hunting shows that were pretty good, but the great majority of them are predictable, poorly executed, and paid advertisement for camo, guns, and bow makers.

I may not get out every week at 2 PM Central Time/12 PM PST, but when I do, it is more memorable than a 30-minute show. I could tell you about waking up under 12" of fresh snow in the Sierra Nevada, about dragging a 200 lbs mulie more than a mile through the sagebrush, about cooking outdoors on a Coleman stove in the middle of a snowstorm, about nearly suffering heatstroke on an antelope hunt, and so on. I can even tell you about getting skunked and driving home at 2 AM and getting up and driving to work at 5 AM, something you definitely won't see on a hunting show. Hunting is about you getting outdoors and hunting.
 
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m94KL_1W3-I

Hope the link works! Buck McNeely makes a shot on a running pronghorn in high wind. Obviously the acting is terrible as they reenact the kill shot of the hunt. I'd sure hate to hunt with that blowhard or be his guide.

BTW if you call him out on it on youtube your comment is deleted. This link has been running over on Accuratereloading for some time now.
 
Just posted a comment on Youtube/antelope on the run. See if it gets deleted.
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Don't know if it will since you told him nice shot. Who knows, most of the post that have been deleted are ones that call him out about resting his barrel on the shooting stick and not the forearm of the stock. Or that it was a lucky shot, and an unethical one. Only time will tell if he liked your comment on his and the guides acting.
 
My frien and I bowhunted elk in the Bob marshall wilderness for years. We got pretty good at it. I cow called a bull in to about 15 yards one time. I had three cow calls around my neck cause they would freeze up. I had them all frozen, was standing there with a pocket knife having to pick the reed lose every time I called and he came blasting in on top of me. I had the bow on my shoulder still on a sling. Looked a little stupid. I had my partner set up to the side but he couldn't get a shot off. He killed a 379 the next year with a bow.. It's in the book. this was before digital cameras and such. i really have some cool pictures. Don't know whether they could be scanned somehow and posted or not.

A lot of what I see on TV is just silliness.
 
A couple of things about the hunting shows.

Firstly, they are just one long running commercial. Who could carry all the crap those guys use on TV show? They must carry 100 pounds of camo make-up, camo back pack, doe in heat scent, scent blocker, camo shirts, camo masks, camo hats, camo boots, camo rifles/shotguns, camo ammo, camo truck, camo bow, camo ATV, camo binoculars, camo range finder, camo binocular case, camo range finder case, camo suspenders, camo tree stand, camp turkey seat, camo elk call, camo duck call and a guide completely covered in camo.

Secondly, why do they whisper after they have taken the shot and the game has run off?

Pure silliness.

Oh, and in the name of god- would someone please put that idiot Iaconelli out of my misery?
 
comedy

Our hunts would be full of laughe. last year we depart the truck at 4:45 a.m. and get about 100 yards down the road when the dog in the truck starts barking. We go" holys__t he is gonna wake every animal for miles "then the horn goes non stop for about three or 4 min.We keep on going and 4 hours later we return to the truck only to find a big ole pile of bear poop next to the truck.Can not believe that luck. We did not see any bears for the rest of the week. I think that is funny.
 
My hunts are as boring as watching paint dry, No it really is that boring. But the minute I spot that deer, My heart starts running wild. I love that feeling.
 
Two Exceptions

I agree, most hunting shows are poorly made if not down right boring. But there are couple of exceptions.

One is Hunting With Hank and the other is The Spirit Of The Wild. Even the production quality of these two shows is superior, they are not cheesy, handheld camcorder looking.

I did meet Dez Young once. He is a great hunter and a great conservationist. He is one of the last of the gentlemen hunters.
 
Our Moose hunts would be too boring to watch up until we are back at camp. Then the guns are put away and the beer and whiskey come out. Drunken wrestling, stick swordfights and obvious lying may be a little more fun to watch than a guy walking around... then sitting around...then calling and back to walking around again.
 
We could only do ours as a comedy show. We did think maybe we could do a little "Hunting Camp Vittles" cooking show, considering the slop we call food in camp....
 
Mine would be interesting if you enjoyed comedy. You would see me say hi, and the rest would be outtakes. Its so nice to hunt with friends.
 
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