Maybe it's just me, maybe I'm not alone in thinking these thoughts. I am in no way trying to insult true hunters or the sport they love. Just some gripes about all these hunting shows my dad loves to watch. Somethings I have noticed that just don't seem what some might call sporting. First, they drive to the game ranches, then, they stay all night in a nice cabin, then they wake up usually after the sun is out. On the morining of the hunt they drive a brand new truck two to five miles down a dirt road that looks better than the roads we have around here, then they hop on their all terrain vehicles, we usually call them four wheelers, and drive them a mile down a road they could have just as easily driven down in the truck. They then get to the blind or stand that was pre setup which is usually just a few feet from the road. Then they get all excited when they see a deer or maybe some other type of game depending on the show.It's a game ranch of course there is "game" all over the place. At this point they shot the poor animal of choice with either a gun or bow and one of the ranch workers goes and tracks it down for them, how conveiniant. You know they could atleast stay in a tent or camper the night before just add a little of discomfort. How about walkin' the last mile to the spot they want to hunt and setting up their own blind or stand? How about siting there for several hours in stead of twenty minutes? Yes, i do know television isn't in real time, but they usually say it's been within an hour before they see something. Let's take those heaters out of those blinds aswell. I know it's just t.v., but really what is so sportign about the way they do it? I can see takin' a kid to a game farm to make it easy, but come on dads get off your butts and if you want to call yourself a hunter then hunt don't just sit in all the modern luxuries. I can already hear the feedback. Only three more months to dees season here so you guys better get started.
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jers04
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Aug 17 @ 8:45PM
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What gets me is that they also use a salt lick.
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ragtopcookie
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Aug 17 @ 8:46PM
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I dont hunt.....i fish......i hate to even hear a gun going off......but the fishing shows ive watched....they catch something everytime.....and big fish too.....ive gone many times and not caught anything worth talking about.....my son once said he bets there are guys in the water in wet suits putting those fish on the hooks for them......i wonder.....cookie
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roscoe1955
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Aug 17 @ 8:50PM
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they also have people gut and haul their catches and they don't show how they haul things back out when 5-mi. in tv iquess is tv show some shows where the real hunter goes out and not see anything for days
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ttomtarr
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Aug 17 @ 9:32PM
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The Hype The shows tell about killing a boar as it attacks the fearless hunter in his fourwheeler. In its ferocity the boar takes six direct hits and keeps coming, full of blood lust. The "Sport" uses a pistol, putting himself fearlessly in grave danger.
Translation Some overwound city slicker shoots some poor pig in the butt as it approaches the jeep for the corn handout it usually gets, spraying the contents of his pistol across the countryside as the guide puts the poor piggy out of his misery unseen from behind. Limiting the "Sport" to handguns somewhat reduces the risk to guides, their vehicles and other "hunters".
I knew a taxidermist who constantly was buying deer antlers. When he mounted a deer head, he routinely mounted it with antlers larger than the original ones. In the years I knew him, he never got one complaint.
I have thought of letting some of the "Sports" pay to shoot fish swimming around in the bottom of a barrel.It would be about as challenging as murdering tame game farm animals at close range.
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Ginstl
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Aug 17 @ 9:32PM
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It's contrived hunting at best. Real hunting takes work, patience, and aquired skills.
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530Meliss
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Aug 17 @ 9:52PM
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You have a point... then again I didn't take "The Dukes of Hazzard" fact either. Just slightly south of fact. 
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thenewguy295
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Aug 17 @ 10:14PM
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I hunt but some of those shows bother me too.
I especially dislike when they kill 10 or 15 or 20 of something because it's a pest species etc.
In one show they killed a dozen or so coyotes. Now I understand their populations skyrocket because of human activities and sometimes they are dangerous but Killing that many isn't good stewardship of the land in my opinion and not something I approve of.
If it were for food fine, they hunt aged dying bull elephants in Africa and even those provide food for the locals. An elk, deer, feral hog, bison, moose (which kill more people than any other animal in N.America) an occasional bear and many other animals are ok on an individual basis but not en masse.
I'm getting hungry talking about all this meat.....  So off to Arby's! 
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hereshannon
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Aug 18 @ 5:11PM
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Keep in mind those guided hunts cost anywhere from five to twenty thousand dollars, depending on the game. Most people arent going to lay down that kind of money to stay in crappy accomodations and hunt in an area where there is no game. The hunts that are shown on television probably represent less than one percent of the actual hunting that takes place in this country. Most hunters are just average men and women who go out in the woods before daylight, stay there all day long freezing, and more times that not don't get anything. And while we are on the subject lets not forget, we would no longer have any game animals in America were it not for the conservation efforts funded by hunters.
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chevymn
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Aug 18 @ 5:25PM
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Good point about the conservation efforts. It kinda seems that you might think I'm bashing hunters, something I was definately not trying to do. I was just trying to make a point in how fake these t.v. shows are. Thank all of you for your comments.
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