Hunting shows. Whatcha wachin?

I forgot to mention Colorado Buck's show too.
Have always liked Primos' Truth series.
Learned a lot of good elk hunting tips off of that show that have worked very well over the years!
 
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Primos.
Jim Shockey

Tim wells.

Mossberg morning Thunder pretty good series

Canada in the rough and Canadian tradition both great shows
 
Into High Country. jason Matzinger is about as non-commercial as it gets. He was an electrician first...great cinematography, narration.

Gamekeepers, Deer Land, and another Canadian production which is Rackstacker foodplot funded, because I am getting into food plots and land management increasingly. The trapping inc show from AB, so I know what to do to make certain species less welcome.

I only PVR and watch later...skip the commercials and gain 10 mins for the rest of my life each show.

Cheers.
 
Wildtv is garbage. There is better quality self filmed hunts on YouTube than 90% of the stuff on wildtv. The amount of repeats on there is sickening too, same show everyday same episode. I tried it again but cancelled after one week

Some good shows out there, I just like to catch them online rather than Netflix or hunting channels. So I can fast forward threw all the sponsors and stupid time filler segments and get to the real hunting footage.
 
I quit watching any of them when they took Red Fisher and Skuttlebutt Lodge off the air. Nothing quite the same since. Man, that poetry of his was .... well ..... special. It usually rhymed at least.


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rral22 said:
I quit watching any of them when they took Red Fisher and Skuttlebutt Lodge off the air. Nothing quite the same since. Man, that poetry of his was .... well ..... special. It usually rhymed at least.


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Plus the cheesy "home movie" style the segments were depicted in were hilarious. You could tell them ol' boys played pretty hard - even as a kid it was easy to spot they were pretty well jacked....:cheers:
 
BlackRam said:
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.
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I can testify that Cody Robbins is just as excited about stuff whether the camera is on or not...he's a very passionate person. A bunch of the episodes are now on Youtube for free as well: https://www.youtube.com/c/LIVE2HUNT
 
Only found out recently that Bell is now offering the Sportsmans Channel, immediately unsubscribed from Wild and subscribed to it. What an amazing lineup of great shows, really happy with it so far. International, U.S. and a good mix of Canadian shows included, I'm hooked!
 
I remember when the Wild channel had what they called "Hot Lead Tuesdays" where they screened several high budget shows through the evening, including the very excellent non hunting show "Shooting USA," but never mind. Online lately I've taken a liking to Fieldsports Britain on YouTube. They have a very different take on hunting pursuits but above all bravely show a highly embattled gun owning population holding out by their fingernails in a nation that is about to ban fingernail files. And their shows have a lot of good humour, which helps. Surprisingly enough, they have a lot of fans in the southern states of the USA, which I know both from watching the show and from communicating with kin down there. For double gun coverage I can recommend YouTube videos by the English blokes at "The Gun Shop" a shop nearby London apparently, which necessarily sells a lot of double barrel shotguns, some semi autos and bolt action rifles. Have yet to see a bad video from them.
 
yorgi said:
Only found out recently that Bell is now offering the Sportsmans Channel, immediately unsubscribed from Wild and subscribed to it. What an amazing lineup of great shows, really happy with it so far. International, U.S. and a good mix of Canadian shows included, I'm hooked!
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The Sportsman Channel is not offered by the cable company I have- and I see some companies are dropping them for reasons I can well imagine- but I find there are "Sportsman Channel" episodes offered on YouTube. I assume this is the same show?
 
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