Hunting shows. Whatcha wachin?
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I just started watching season 1. Great show, so far. That woman that lives in the base station all by herself is one interesting character. What a mouth on her!
Sweet, I liked that one. They NEED to put some more Meat Eater on there. I'm currently going through "The Hunt. It's................ They NEED to put some more Meat Eater on there
You can buy all the MeatEater seasons here: http://meateater.vhx.tv/
Also, they are "out there" on the Internet in the usual places.
I know, but I'm too cheap to buy the episodes like that and feel bad snagging them the other way.
I understand the dilemma and I know several other people who feel the same way. What this tells me, as a consumer, is that the MeatEater series is not priced right on their site. They could likely increase profits considerably if they dropped the price. People WANT to pay for content this good, but they don't want to be robbed. Get the pricing right, and nearly everyone who visits the site would plug in their CC number and be done with it.
(For the same money, I get a year and a half of Netflix - which is a hell of a lot more content than I would get buying MeatEater.)
Mount Sweetness
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Bird Dogs Afield, YouTube
I like watching the Flush. Meat Eater and CITR are still pretty solid in my books. Some of those shows on Wild TV are AWEFUL! The one where the husband and wife are always nattering at each other is horrible! Living the Dream sucks! Watching Craig Boddington wound a Cape buffalo with a handgun made me puke. That guy out west letting his 11 year old kid shoot an elk in the arse gave me rage....
Mount Sweetness
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Life Below Zero
Look that one up on Netflix, it’s not a traditional hunting show but they hunt/trap/fish.
Look that one up on Netflix, it’s not a traditional hunting show but they hunt/trap/fish.
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Just started watching Into the High Country, not bad.
Personally, I prefer hunting shows that take you around the world and show hunting of big game other than just whitetails. While I like hunting whitetails, I enjoy hunting other game more, and the variety of environments, terrain and challenges faced when hunting those other animals where they live. Many shows are about animals and places that I may never get to go to and hunt, so I enjoy their sharing the adventure just so that I can learn more about places and animals that I (you) would otherwise not get a chance to learn about.
Yes, I agree that there are far too many commercials (17 minutes worth out of 30 minutes on WildTV, as anaverage), but I do know that it is not an inexpensive thing to do, and advertising allows for them to accomplish their dreams of hunting for a living, and all the more power to those that succeed. they worked hard for it! The nature of the business.I do commend Ryan Kohler for doing his new show which is an hour long without commercials. It is a step in the right direction.
Yes, there is a lot of acting for the camera, but what gets me more than the theatrics, is the hunter that takes a shot, and then worries more about playing for the camera than they do about whether or not the animal is down for good, and is ready to make a follow up shot, if the animal gets back up. That is poor practice!
There definitely is a wide range of emotions that onecan experience at the successful conclusion of a hunt, and wide variety of experieces that occurred to get that hunter to that moment. Each person is going to express this differently, depevnding on the particular circumstances. Real emotion is one thing, regardless of the form expressed, but over dramatizing the event just for the camera can definitely go.
I do enjoy some shows more than others. I like Cody Robbins, Fred Eichler and Ralph and Vicki C.
They share their excitement and their antics, but they are genuine, and put in the effort. I haven't met Fred, but have met Cody, Ralph and Vicki and they are great people, and I would hunt with them all, anytime. They also share with others, and assist them in hunting adventures, successful or not, they make it a quality experience. I also like the Dark & Dangerous and Trijicon's Sports Afield shows. While I liked Jim Shockey's writing better than his shows, he does go to some amazing places, hunting some very neat animals. But his shows are no longer on WildTV.
For the rest that I do watch, I just put aside the less desirable factors of the show, and choose to enjoy the rest of the program for what it is. I do not have access to some of the other channels out there, so
The ones that bother me the most are the long range hunting shows where they are introducing new hunters (men, women and children) to taking animals at long range. This is sniping, not hunting. The rifle and scope is set up for the new hunter, and all they do is pull the trigger. Where is the teaching of skills required to hunt an animal? To learn its habits? It habitat? And how to stalk closer to make a higher percentage shot at an unwounded game animal, so that a clean, ethical harvest can be made vs hoping that they can place a bullet in a small target area on a living animal, and not wounding the animal. And if that animal is wounded, how are they prepared to follow up on that animal that could tale anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour and a half to just get to where it was standing at the shot (depending on the terrain), and then pick up the trail to find that wounded animal and finish it (always a worry with a new hunter). I talked with a guide from Alaska who had taken out some guys from a popular long range hunting show for caribou. They wounded and lost 12, before getting a successful kill shot for the camera. He was disgusted by their lack of respect for the animals and how little effort they made in even trying to find the wounded game.
Yes, I agree that there are far too many commercials (17 minutes worth out of 30 minutes on WildTV, as anaverage), but I do know that it is not an inexpensive thing to do, and advertising allows for them to accomplish their dreams of hunting for a living, and all the more power to those that succeed. they worked hard for it! The nature of the business.I do commend Ryan Kohler for doing his new show which is an hour long without commercials. It is a step in the right direction.
Yes, there is a lot of acting for the camera, but what gets me more than the theatrics, is the hunter that takes a shot, and then worries more about playing for the camera than they do about whether or not the animal is down for good, and is ready to make a follow up shot, if the animal gets back up. That is poor practice!
There definitely is a wide range of emotions that onecan experience at the successful conclusion of a hunt, and wide variety of experieces that occurred to get that hunter to that moment. Each person is going to express this differently, depevnding on the particular circumstances. Real emotion is one thing, regardless of the form expressed, but over dramatizing the event just for the camera can definitely go.
I do enjoy some shows more than others. I like Cody Robbins, Fred Eichler and Ralph and Vicki C.
They share their excitement and their antics, but they are genuine, and put in the effort. I haven't met Fred, but have met Cody, Ralph and Vicki and they are great people, and I would hunt with them all, anytime. They also share with others, and assist them in hunting adventures, successful or not, they make it a quality experience. I also like the Dark & Dangerous and Trijicon's Sports Afield shows. While I liked Jim Shockey's writing better than his shows, he does go to some amazing places, hunting some very neat animals. But his shows are no longer on WildTV.
For the rest that I do watch, I just put aside the less desirable factors of the show, and choose to enjoy the rest of the program for what it is. I do not have access to some of the other channels out there, so
The ones that bother me the most are the long range hunting shows where they are introducing new hunters (men, women and children) to taking animals at long range. This is sniping, not hunting. The rifle and scope is set up for the new hunter, and all they do is pull the trigger. Where is the teaching of skills required to hunt an animal? To learn its habits? It habitat? And how to stalk closer to make a higher percentage shot at an unwounded game animal, so that a clean, ethical harvest can be made vs hoping that they can place a bullet in a small target area on a living animal, and not wounding the animal. And if that animal is wounded, how are they prepared to follow up on that animal that could tale anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour and a half to just get to where it was standing at the shot (depending on the terrain), and then pick up the trail to find that wounded animal and finish it (always a worry with a new hunter). I talked with a guide from Alaska who had taken out some guys from a popular long range hunting show for caribou. They wounded and lost 12, before getting a successful kill shot for the camera. He was disgusted by their lack of respect for the animals and how little effort they made in even trying to find the wounded game.
Hurketthunter84
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I’m not questioning what you heard from this outfitter but I am questioning the ethics of any outfitter that would allow any clients no matter how famous to shoot at and wound 12 animals to get a long range kill on film.
Hurketthunter84
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I was just going to say this. There's 11 seasons already, but only the first 5 are on Netflx so far. Most of the rest are available "elsewhere".
It wasn't the outfitter, it was the guide I talked to.
I should have mentioned that he was guiding other clients out of the same camp during this fiasco, and was not guiding those tv hunters himself.
You have to remember that the outfitter may not actually be in the field with the guides and clients (hunters) during the hunt.
While I do not claim to know the laws in Alaska, here in BC you cancel your tag for your big game animal upon harvesting the animal. An animal that is wounded and lost is not harvested. Our law requires the hunter to make every effort to recover his game. Many continue to hunt, with very little effort made to recover their game. It is such a shame.
In this respect, I think there is a lot of merit in the rules found in Africa, where you pay for the animal if you draw any blood, whether you harvest it or lose the animal.
Conversations with the conservation officers over the past few years show an alarming trend in their finding of numerous dead animals that were not recovered, and wounded animals from hunters who are taking long range shots on game, and not taking the time required to locate those animals, killed or wounded, to harvest the animal, or find and finish the wounded animal, and harvest it.
Perhaps we should have to cancel the tag if blood is drawn on any animal, whether you harvest it or lose it. Perhaps this would make people put more effort into finding their game after the shot...well, at least the more honest ones anyway.
I like Meateater, Randy Newberg, solohunter, and some of the Hush stuff...lately I've been liking their stuff less...I'm not sure what is turning me off of it, but I'm just not liking it like I did the early content.
I agree that the long range stuff is distasteful. I might find it less distasteful if I was a competant 500 yard shooter though. Personal taste and ability certainly colour my opinions.
Shockey's uncharted was good stuff too, but a lot of the time on his other shows I feel like he's acting the part of a character.
I agree that the long range stuff is distasteful. I might find it less distasteful if I was a competant 500 yard shooter though. Personal taste and ability certainly colour my opinions.
Shockey's uncharted was good stuff too, but a lot of the time on his other shows I feel like he's acting the part of a character.
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