TV shows, Gut Shots
08-28-2007, 02:31 PM
#21
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blossvale, New York
Posts: 21,199
RE: TV shows, Gut Shots
YUP, more and more bad shots on TV. BUT,... there are also more and more people shooting on TV. In earlier years it was just the Knight and Hale, Bill Jordan etc doing the shooting. Now everyone has a camera and wants to be a TV star. Seems like every other show is a guy and a girl, one dragger and one cutie. And they say Sezzzz doesn't sell. LOL Today there are beginning bow hunters all over the TV or people with minimal experience because they know someone or have big bucks to hunt. Most are probably not real competant hunters in terms of 20 or 30 years ago. Now it's all over bait or manicured food plots on lightly hunted strictly controlled property. They spend thousands upon thousands of dollars on big buck country land planting foodjust for deerso they can have a TV show. It's show business at that point. It's not hunting as the majority of the hunting world knows it. Hunting on TV has definitely changed. Overbowed beginners on film is a definite recipe for some bad shots. I suspect a lot of them are not real big venison lovers. Probably more into Tofu and salads.[8D] And yes, the shooting skills have taken a turn for the worse but they don't really care.
08-28-2007, 03:12 PM
#22
Spike
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NNY
Posts: 41
RE: TV shows, Gut Shots
ORIGINAL: jarman
As far as that goes we always recover our animals live and yes the tongues hang out but we try and push them in as we are looking at the animal to make it look better. It may be the real thing with the tongue hanging out but it is not good to show this on video and in pictures. In my opinion is shows bad taste and gives activists more fuel and it may turn a fence rider the wrong way. So just maybe these guys may be doing this to protect our hunting. No one likes to see animals suffer or look bad, I have shot animals on film and hit them as good as you can but nobody wants to see them blowing their lungs out their nose as they die so some of this is done for a reason.
As far as that goes we always recover our animals live and yes the tongues hang out but we try and push them in as we are looking at the animal to make it look better. It may be the real thing with the tongue hanging out but it is not good to show this on video and in pictures. In my opinion is shows bad taste and gives activists more fuel and it may turn a fence rider the wrong way. So just maybe these guys may be doing this to protect our hunting. No one likes to see animals suffer or look bad, I have shot animals on film and hit them as good as you can but nobody wants to see them blowing their lungs out their nose as they die so some of this is done for a reason.
