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Demonical

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Watching 'Swarovski Optic Quest' hunting show tonight on Sportsman Channel. The dudes were on some elk farm/private ranch, with huge elk everywhere you looked.

Buddy has a really nice 360" B&C (?) elk, walking right towards them.

He's shooting off a ####ing tripod, with some uber-tech scope with reticles and ranging bull#### on it... he can barely get off a shot, at an elk that's 40 yards (!!!) away!!

For ####s sakes, just hunt...
 
A friend and I were out helping another friend to harvest an antlerless moose, and it was painful to watch the guy try and shoot the animal. He had a heavy barreled rifle, with a Huskemaw scope, shooting HSM loads with Berger bullets, and he had a turret for each temperature range. We put him in front of a moose at 50 yards, and he insisted on lying in the snow, in order to use the bipod, but when he lay prone, he could no longer see the moose. I set up my trigger sticks tripod for him, but he refused to shoot, unless he could lay prone, and the moose ran off. We managed to get him within about 50 yards at another moose, with the same results, but the second moose stopped about 100 yards away. Then he fiddled with the turrets and shot, and hit the moose poorly, and it started trotting off. He fired three more times, before the moose finally lay down . This fellow had obviously watched way too much television , bought the equipment used on the shows, and had not practiced with the equipment from field positions.
 
Yeah, my wife hates it when I watch those shows; drives her crazy when I insert my own commentary, which usually consists of "for the love of...shoot...shoot now...now!...come on, a$$hole, what are you waiting for?...NOW....NOW!!!!!!"

I especially love the episode I saw of one of those long-range "hunting" shows where they were hunting black bear over bait. I wanted to see if they were going to set up in a stand 500 yards away from a donut pile or something...but nope, the guy was in a tree overlooking the bait at maybe 40 yards. He was using some ultra-long-range blaster with a target stock and about a 2-foot-long scope. He waited until there was a dinky little bear at the bait, and then proceeded to twiddle the turrets on his scope before taking the shot. Embarrassing to watch...
 
We were just having a conversation yesterday about all the crap they try and sell hunters

The list of mandatory equipment is pretty short IMO

Rifle or bow
Boots
Knife
Binoculars
I am going to throw range finder in here, as I hit high on my buck this year guessing distance with my crossbow. Never want to do that again.
 
Some years back, I tried to watch a "hunting" show. After 5 minutes of some dude turning around and whispering into the camera, I gave up. I've never tried to watch one since. I go out to hunt and enjoy the outdoors. Whether I actually harvest any game is not of utmost importance. Each to their own, I guess.
 
Yes to all of this criticism. I used to like watching Deadly Passion re-runs on YouTube but got sick of seeing her haul a tripod out for everything, even a pistol shot. I mean, she can use a compound to kill a bear, supposedly, is she unable to control her shot enough with a pistol to kill a hog?

I love New Zealand hunting shows because they tend to be a bunch of rednecks running around the hills in shorts that are too short, with massive guns and packs and pretty much nothing else. The only trick gear they bring is the helicopter to get home.

MeatEater is slowly working more obviously branded gear into their content, and I noted Steve using a tripod when shooting Coues deer in Mexico. Sure hope they don't go down that route.
 
One goof on the Alaskan bush people had a silencer on his rifle as to not disturb his neighbors 1000 miles away.Shot a box of shells at a 100 yard herd of caribou finally crippling one.Then "Mr .Bushman" proceeds to drag the animal downhill by the hind legs to his cabin 1/4 mile away against the grain of the fur.Like driving your truck with the e brake on.What an inexperienced idiot.Never watched it again.
 
mbogo3 said:
One goof on the Alaskan bush people had a silencer on his rifle as to not disturb his neighbors 1000 miles away.Shot a box of shells at a 100 yard herd of caribou finally crippling one.Then "Mr .Bushman" proceeds to drag the animal downhill by the hind legs to his cabin 1/4 mile away against the grain of the fur.Like driving your truck with the e brake on.What an inexperienced idiot.Never watched it again.
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Apparently their "island" wasn't as remote as they tried to let on. Their was a road with traffic just behind the cabin so they had to be careful where they shot from so as not to let on. As well a couple miles away there was a hotel where the crew and sometimes the cast stayed
 
The only hunting shows I've ever watched fall within the meat eater company. Their show reminds me a lot of Anthony Bourdain's old show, and it should it's filmed by the same dude who filmed his. But besides those I'm out of the loop, new to hunting just got my license this year, and didn't pay attention to any of it before this.
 
rar said:
what you guys think of Jim Shockey's shows.good or bad.
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I commend Shockey for his drive. The guy has literally been everywhere, shot every big game animal on the planet (except maybe a Rhino?, although I know he has darted one).
And he goes hard into whatever country he is in, whatever the game animal he is hunting.

Is he a salesman? Hell yes, but you got to pay the bills somehow.

And anything he does is authentic, and 10 times better than any of the crap American stuff.
 
Demonical said:
Watching 'Swarovski Optic Quest' hunting show tonight on Sportsman Channel. The dudes were on some elk farm/private ranch, with huge elk everywhere you looked.

Buddy has a really nice 360" B&C (?) elk, walking right towards them.

He's shooting off a ####ing tripod, with some uber-tech scope with reticles and ranging bull#### on it... he can barely get off a shot, at an elk that's 40 yards (!!!) away!!

For ####s sakes, just hunt...
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it's TV drama
 
Being very cynical,I find some of the shows that specialize in extreme range big game shooting to be somewhat questionable.These 1 shot kills at ranges approaching 1000 yards where the animal drops in its tracks are incongruous to what most hunters experience when using a typical,behind the shoulder lung shot.Even Remington's new Hypersonic rifle ammo commercials are misleading,showing a number of animals almost twisted backwards from the impact as they slam to the ground.I'm sure it happens,but the way it's portrayed makes it seem like it's an "every shot" occurance.

Maybe it's just creative CGI that's used to make the shot and bullet performance seem like it's something far beyond what it actually is ( a composition of metals or a single monometal ) that's so deadly because of it's design and high BC ( making the sponsoring bullet manufacturer happy ).

Or maybe the show spends thousands of extra dollars for extra or unlimited tags at private outfitters until they actually get that 1 shot,"dropped in it's tracks" kind of footage that makes the sponsors happy and dupes viewers into believing these shots are an every hunt occurrance when using the same equipment that are promoted on the program.

It would be interesting to hear the results from hunters who've tried this kind of shooting without being sponsored.
 
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