Re: Hunting/Fishing Shows

[Anatidae]

I can take all the ribbin' dished-out on that subject, Seymore. I guess I deserve some of it.

Home movies only, for us. 'Hope you get to the point you can make a trip up North one day. If I can help, let me know.

[Seymore]

I can take all the ribbin' dished-out on that subject, Seymore. I guess I deserve some of it.

Home movies only, for us. 'Hope you get to the point you can make a trip up North one day. If I can help, let me know.

There were a million and one things I wanted to do and always thought I would get to them. Wanted to go to Argentina, fish the Pacific. Alaska, Canada, and a score of other things. I'm of the philosophy now to get up and go do it. There's no telling what life has in store for any of us.

[Anatidae]

Exactly! There's a time, place and season for everything.

----- "Life is what happens while you were making plans" [S. Clemens] -----

So, we try to do the things we 'can'......WHILE we 'can'........or more accurately, while we STILL 'can'.

[jdbuckshot]

There are some very very bad shows on TV. The pursuit channel is pretty comical to watch.

However if i had to pick the worst excuse for a hunting show host it is these guys:




I have watched it several times, and have seen the younger brother blame somebody else more than once for "sighting his gun in wrong"

I mean how in the heck do you get to hunt for a living and Suck at it ?

i type this as i sit at my desk going through the daily grind.......



but there are some great celebrity hunters, i enjoy Jim burnworth, the Eastmans, Fred Eichlar is a cool guy, and many others, the Elite Archery show is top notch, as well as primos.

[Drakeshead]

I like RNT-V, Drake's Migration Nation and Working Man's Retriever.

[duckter]

Showing my age here - grew up watching Virgil Ward fishing show called, "Championship Fishing." At the end of the show, he would put whatever they fishing with that day on a short mono line and "work it" in the aquarium they had in the studio. "From the Lakes of Northern Canada, to the Gulf of Mexico, wherever fish are biting, that's where we're gonna' go".......

Others I really enjoy and enjoyed:
Hank Parker
Orlando Wilson
Flip Pallet
Roland Martin
Jerry McKinnis
Jimmy Houston
Jose Wejebe
Curty Gowdy - The American Sportsman
Bill Dance (when he would actually fish a lake and not his stocked pond in Arlington, TN). The episode with Terry Bradshaw as his guest was hilarious - especially when Terry took his tooth out.

Funny as my brother and I would fight over the TV back in the day, he was more a "Wrastlin'" man and me for the Fishing shows. As I always reminded him Wrastlin' was fake, he would always reply the fishing shows were fake as well.

Todays' Bassmaster and FLW crap - forget it.

[ShotgunSP]

Heartland Bowhunter is top notch. By far the best produced show.

RNT-V is probably the only duck hunting show worth watching.

Primos shows are good, and I like Bill Winke's show.


The Bad:
I saw a Bonecollector show where the old man shot at a buck quartering away and the arrow literally deflected off the deer. The next segment they were pimping their G5 broadheads. Was pretty terrible...

[bulldog ducker]

The Bad:
I saw a Bonecollector show where the old man shot at a buck quartering away and the arrow literally deflected off the deer. The next segment they were pimping their G5 broadheads. Was pretty terrible...

Saw that he other day... That was Wadells(sp) dad.

I have enjoyed watching the Dropped project...

[WilM88]

I enjoy a handful of em.. Some are well-done... Now when to comes to some on the pursuit and sportman channel that are low end and get aired middle of day or late at night... I laugh and just think of how much better a show with me and some local guys would be and how my knowledge and personality blows theirs out of the water... I guess that's why I always wanted to have my own show growing up... and why i still carry a camera or 2 just about everytime I go... I think primos does well on their videos, esp turkey, elk and deer... they arent the experts on ducks.. I enjoy the crush.. of course because of Tiffany... Some of the other big deer shows aren't too bad. Shockey is hard core but all that exotic crap bores me. RNT is great, drakes migrations is decent, heartland bowhunter is original and there producers, editing crew does a phenomenal job. How'd i'd like mine done if i did it... except it be mixture of duck deer and turkey... Bone collector is ok.. I like waddel just bc he is a good ole southern boy and they show a lot of stuff other than hunting which i think is important... Drury's stuff is good, they kill big ones and mix it up and wear mossy oak at least...

[JDgator]

It seems like the formats went from a focus on wild animals to some dude's personal travelogue. There was too much lifestyle content. And then it went to eXXXtreme hunter/shock jock because that got old. None of it works for my demographic. I like watching wild animals more than I like watching fat bearded men in camo shorts install truck seat covers while drinking Realtree energy drinks.

[Anatidae]

Saw Avian X today.......there's hope.

Otherwise, Nothing makes me switch channels (and write-off a 'show') quicker than the following format:

Aside from the 5-minute initial ads scroll...and introductions ......

1) 5 minutes of the first segment showing them driving and talking on the cell phone at the same time - go to ads #1, 2 & 3 (5 minutes)
2) re-cap last 4 minutes of first segment and add one 'new' minute of footage (grown men acting like little girls on their first sleep-over) - go to ads #3, 2 & 1.
3) re-cap last 2 minutes of first segment, last minute of segment 2, and 30 seconds of actual animals spotted by the camera man, re-cap of actual animal (this time, described by the hunter in a muted 'whisper' including words like 'shooter buck' or 'management deer') - yeah, whatever. Oh, yeah.....gotta show photos of 'named' culls with the sponsoring trail-cam.
4) sponsor recognition ......including at least one ED remedy or testosterone supplement. This is a 'hunting' show, right? C'mon, man!
5) re-cap first sighting of animal to shooting it. Ads
6) re-cap first sighting of animal to shooting it........and then wait 'til morning to go look for the deer even though there's plenty of daylight left - if they didn't spend 10 minutes getting footage about getting down out of the tree, calling someone on the cell phone, checking messages and e-mail.......etc. Ads, man-hugs, and holding hands
7) re-cap video footage to see if they should expect to find something dead or not.......C'mon.......the hunt was filmed 6 months ago.....if you don't know whtether you killed it or not without playing back the video NOW...... ........re-cap shooting the animal and tracking it (like they don't know where it is already) - ensued by irreverant celebration of high-fives, laughter, and 2 minutes of holding hands with their new BEST friend.....the outfitter, who either doesn't know what to say or hopes the idiot will just let go.
re-cap high fives, man-hugs, and holding hands (obvious suck-up to guy who took 'towny' to what has become widely regarded as 'sport')
9) bloopers - yeah, what an oxy-moron.

What gets me is when they wear scent-lok clothing and/or show a 2-minute spray-down with something to remove 99.9% odors (the main sponsor).......and then show a deer that obviously winded them. Musta been the .1% that didn't work.

'Saw first 20 seconds of another show that the host was looking somewhere else (like he doesn't want to look you in the eye when he's talking)......like what somebody does when they're lying to you? I thought, "might as well be looking at the back of his head." Think I'll go see if the fish are biting.

[Deltamud77]

RNT-V is great. Used to really like The Spanish Fly with Jose Wejebe...but he is dead now and his tribute season is complete. Saltwater Experience with Tom Roland and Rich Tudor is pretty good. Meateater is good. That's about it. Sometimes I watch The Crush with Lee & Tiffany for the scenery.

[booger]

RNT-TV is fine unless it's the goose thing. Project Yukon Dropped (whatever) is good but sorta drawn out at times "What to do now?" I get it though. Beautiful scenery, I get drawn in and go for the ride.

Not watching much else hunting wise, though I try to see what's on Mississippi Outdoors, Melvin Tingle and the new crew, classic stuff.

Yeah Avian-x had a few good ones.

Now I'm sucked into the Shooting/Best Defense/Impossible Shots etc. etc.

[ScottyLee]

in no particular order: drakes migration nation, rntv, avian x, game keepers and the other mossy oak shows, and that's about it. i'll watch the crush with lee and tiffany every now and then. its disgusting how many of these people can actually make a living doing this stuff.

[bigoak]

They are all terrible. Even the shows by good ole Mississippi boys like Primos and Mossy Oak have gone to crap. Has anyone noticed how all the guys on the Primos videos try to make their voices sound exactly like Will? They try to pronounce their words just like him I just shake my head in shame when I see Will pimping stuff like swaaaammmmp donkey and the buck roooaaaarrr. No shame.

Anyone remember watching bowhunting videos made by the Wensel brothers back in the 80's?