Today's 'Sportsman's Spokespersons

[Anatidae]

[Po Monkey Lounger]

[Tedl10]

[MSDawg870]

[Don Miller]

[GordonGekko]

[cajun squealer]

Real men shoot from the hip.

[Blackwater]

[DUCKAHOLIC]

[Duck Nawteek]

[Anatidae]

Yeah, these shows are tolerable as long as you can watch the game animals in their natural environment.

In hunting - the hunt is over when you pull the trigger. Then the work starts.

In hunting shows - the show is over (as far as I'm concerned) when they pull the trigger, or otherwise cause the animal to run-off.

It amazes me that the producers of these 'ME'-flicks don't realize how stupid it is to have someone showing their excitement by shouting and pumping their fist, giving high fives, and holding hands and hugging each other........and then giveng a verbal account of what you just saw........all in a whisper, as to NOT disturb anything else that might be coming to the bait. They certainly go to great pains not to educate the game to fear humans, don' they?

If hunting is ever outlawed, you can make a list of those responsible, by going back to these film clips of these people. It's one thing to tell a hunting story among friends, but it's another thing to film the struggle. I equate it to televised be-headings. Something dies - the killer delights in the process to the point of appearing in the visual documentation and taking credit for the suffering........there's something fundamentally wrong with that, and I won't subscribe to it..............and I damn sure won't buy any of the crap that these mucks are peddling.

I go back to Jack O'Connor (and the likes) - these guys set the standard - I'm still trying to uphold it in my own hunting experiences and practices........but not in a whispered voice on camera.

Hunting shows don't show any 'skills'.....or 'hunting' tactics. They show people. I don't go hunting to watch or listen to people go-on about themselves, trying to convince me they know what they're doing.

'Talk' is not a hunting skill - it's a promotion. That's what the shows are about. Some do a better job of promoting the right things - Like DU and other conservation and hunting heritage preservation-minded organizations. Others are selling something or promoting themselves and their businesses.

It's an insult to my intelligence (what little I am blessed with). The only reason I watch at all (until the BS starts - or they play the same commercial every 5 minutes), is I might get to see an animal do something neat - in their natural environment. Otherwise, I'd just go to the zoo.

Sometimes, it's entertaining to see how ridiculous these folks are, making an assumtion that the viewing public doesn't know any better. It just emphasizes their arrogance - trying to peddle bull$#!+.

I hope the sponsors go belly-up! They're degrading our heritage and making us all look like 'killers' and idiots. It's always the WRONG message and it's going to ruin the way folks percieve hunters (if it hasn't, already done so).

[MSDawg870]

[JDgator]

[olemissduckhunter]