Adventures Abroad by Bushnell on TV

01 February 2010, 04:33

Larry Sellers

I don't think the hosts are all that great, but they do have a lot of good footage. They also usually show other things about their hunts than just the "shoot em up" scenes. I watch it most of the time because it comes on right after "Tracks" and afterall it's more AFRICA. When you are hooked any little tidbits are worth something. If I only watched shows that were absolutely perfect in ones mind, and approved by others, there wouldn't be much viewing time. That's the cool thing about TV, it has an on/off switch.

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01 February 2010, 04:44

rxgremlin

Larry I agree with you. I only watch it to get my Africa fix but most of the time the volume is off.

01 February 2010, 04:45

Lhook7

I don't watch it any more. I did a few times and to me it is just not very well done. Besides, it is just not very exciting watching someone hunt common plains game.

On another note, one of the guys uses a stainless rifle with a fluted barrel and has a rubber donut looking thing on the barrel just past the forend. What is that?

01 February 2010, 04:58

ivan carter

quote:
rubber donut looking thing on the barrel just past the forend. What is that?

its a rubber damper supposedly to tighten the group by damping down the harmonics of the barrel, i have guided a few guys with these and cant say i see any advantage ...

01 February 2010, 05:47

Dave Fulson

a long SA safari, a couple dozen plains game at the cement pond, and there is a 13 week season. Hey Ivan, why are we messing with elephant, buff, and cats at spitting distance? We could sure save a hell of a lot of money. "Hey Craig, how about a blesbok next week? LOL...sort of.

01 February 2010, 05:49

safari-lawyer

Too much common plains game IMHO. How many impala, blesbok, springbok and the like does a man really need to see killed on camera?

01 February 2010, 06:28

Elton Rambin

Ivan.

As to the rubber donut... Looks to me someone is admitting that all the money they spent on a high dollar fluted gun was a waste if they had to add curb feelers and coon tails to dampen the harmonics. LOL.

Went to the web page and noticed the Ray guy has donut on his Weatherby.

Dave.

In Reno I saw a DVD and a hippo was taken in a pond with an earth dam and concrete in the back ground. Gadzooks!

All this goofey stuff makes me appreciate you guys even more.

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01 February 2010, 06:47

GunsCore

Are these the same two guys who used a Barret 50 cal rifle to shoot a mule deer around 1000 yards away?

01 February 2010, 07:19

Biebs

Donut is made by Limbsaver....the logic is sliding it up or down the barrel to tune the harmonics to the "sweet spot". I can't imagine anyone actually putting one of those things on a rifle and showing up in camp with it.

01 February 2010, 07:26

GeoffM24

I can't stand the show either, the tall guy is so cheesy I can't even listen to him!

01 February 2010, 07:26

Equinsu Ocha

ALOT of coues deer hunters out here in AZ use them (the barrel doughnut)..

01 February 2010, 07:27

Scott Powell

I watched some of it today - they were hunting (I should say shooting) an Eland.

As if the doughnut isn't bad enough, check out the scope... I wonder if they have to reboot it everyday....

Oh that's right - Bushnell is a sponsor..

I understand the shows have sponsors and marketing their products is their goal but please.... Even the PH had some weird looking bino vest thingy on that said BUSHNELL acrossed the back.

And what's with the client wearing a big backpack when they leave the truck to go after the Eland???

Too much for me...

01 February 2010, 07:33

Bwana Moja

I don't think the two guys are that bad. Let's try to find something good to say about them here. Nobody likes to be completely trashed on AR.

Um---Well let me think. Both guys are really good marksmen. My biggest problem of the show is that I don't feel like they have a good enough feel for Africa to even know the trophy nature or lack there of-of what they're killing.

I mean is there really such a thing as a record book jackal? And yes I agree with the above commentary that suggests, a fifteen minute hunting sequence on a blesbok or springbok, is not riveting television.

01 February 2010, 07:34

sevenmagltd.

I agree with all the above! Just finished watching Jim Shockey which is one of my favorites, however tonight, the TC guy watched a bull moose walk damn near in a circle around them all the while Jim was telling him to shoot!!!! The camera shows Gregg TC all the while looking at the frigging camera guy!! I got the impression he was no more excited than going to a PTA meeting. THEN, after he finally shoots, he looks the camera in the face and tries to act excited all the while his moose is rolling down the hill. First time I've turned Jim off during his show. This stuff just makes me want to throw up. I'm sick of those kind of guys!!!!! I wouldn't buy a TC for $10 and if you gave me one I'd use it for a boat anchor. ....................I'm better now.

01 February 2010, 07:35

Larry Sellers

The rubber donut on the barrel is a device made by Sims Vibration Laboratories. You slide it up and down the barrel to help find the sweet spot. Similar to Brownings on barrel end device. Most all rifles can/could benefit from this technique and in most cases it can produce better groups. A high dollar fluted barrel has nothing to do with what this device can do as all barrels have harmonics distortion.

I guess a lot of folks here hold themselves above the "average" plains game hunting/hunter now that they have a DG or two under their belt. I am sure that there is a lot more plains game taken by a lot more hunters in Africa each year in comparison to DG, so thus the interest in plains game is pretty great. In my opinion someone who has lost all interest in Africa's plains game is missing a lot of what Africa is all about.

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01 February 2010, 07:44

BrettAKSCI

quote:
Originally posted by ivan carter:
quote:
rubber donut looking thing on the barrel just past the forend. What is that?

its a rubber damper supposedly to tighten the group by damping down the harmonics of the barrel, i have guided a few guys with these and cant say i see any advantage ...

The animals think it looks rediculous too, so they stand there longer stairing at it.

I suppose it's cheaper than a gunsmith.

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01 February 2010, 07:49

Idaho Sharpshooter

Larry,

you ARE dealing with a much more experienced group here than the national average. Guys who get a woodie just thinking about shooting a bigger white tail deer this fall enjoy the Bushnell show. We have been spoiled by Craig Boddington and Ivan Carter and Dave and his crew doing Tracks Across Africa the past couple years.
The recently posted video of our own MJ and Buzz Charlton taking down that all out charge by an Elephant at a few yards puts canned or lesser game farm hunts in perspective. A poor comparison, but not everyone can do like the DSC crew.

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I am going on a PG hunt in sixty-seven days in RSA. My first one, but I have a feeling it is not going to be the crazy adrenaline rush that Buffalo or Elephant hunting in Zimbabwe with Buzz' partner Myles was.

01 February 2010, 07:51

Scott Powell

I guess I just hate to see the commercialization of something that which makes up so much of me.. I realize it's the future and times change but I still dislike it..

I love to hunt plainsgame and am taking my son over this year so he can experience Africa. We will shoot animals and bring home trophies but in my heart the real trophies will be having a sundowner with my boy, showing him the Southern Cross at night, getting torn up crawling through the thorns....

I just wish the shows spent a little more time on Africa - it's history, the people, the country, etc... Help people see Africa the way that Hemingway and Roosevelt saw Africa...

01 February 2010, 08:04

Larry Sellers

Scott Powell - you expressed just what I was getting at, but much better if I might add. Keep that attitude and you will continue to enjoy ALL the hunting adventures for a long time to come.

Sharpshooter - good luck on your upcoming plains game hunt. It will be just as exciting and rewarding as you so choose. DG, adrenaline rushes are great, I am hooked somewhat on that also, but Africa is so much more as you know.

Not putting down the Tracks crew by anymeans as it is without a doubt my favorite fix.

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01 February 2010, 08:07

Antlers

I can't watch it...that's as kind as I can be Moja.

01 February 2010, 08:07

Bill Cooley

quote:
Originally posted by ivan carter:
quote:
rubber donut looking thing on the barrel just past the forend. What is that?

its a rubber damper supposedly to tighten the group by damping down the harmonics of the barrel, i have guided a few guys with these and cant say i see any advantage ...

Ivan the main advantage to these and outer gismos is to the people who sell them.
Bill

01 February 2010, 08:08

Bwana Moja

quote:
get a woodie

Rich you are a funny guy! Didn't know a whitetail hunt would bring anybody the occasion to sport wood...You brought my dad a good chuckle with the above comment. He remembers you from the booth. Thanks for bringing the ole' man a laugh.

01 February 2010, 08:25

L. David Keith

As to the "little rubber thing" I can't see anything wrong with using any product that improves accuracy. It has been said on this very forum hundreds of times; "We owe it to the game animals we hunt to make the most accurate and humane killing shot we can." As someone who has done long range shooting all my adult life, I'm all about following this code of ethics. I have a number of rifles and some shoot very well out of the box but were improved by having custom work done to them. I have a Weatherby with a Sims Deresonator and it saved me hundreds in possible custom work...just so I could tighten up my groups at longer ranges. It works for me. Why? Because I took the time to find that "sweet spot" on my barrel. Those who hate modern technology are welcome to use a flintlock and take nothing over 50 yards. You'll earn my respect, but I respect anyone who hunts ethically, whatever their sporting arm of choice is. And as Larry put so well "That's the cool thing about TV, it has an on/off switch." I'm not a fan of watching how many Impala's a guy can kill in one show, let alone week after week, but neither do I care about how many Whitetails bite the dust week after week. At least I'm not having to watch French tricycle races

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01 February 2010, 08:34

Use Enough Gun

I've watched the show twice. No more.

01 February 2010, 08:38

Scott Powell

quote:
Originally posted by L. David Keith:
As to the "little rubber thing" I can't see anything wrong with using any product that improves accuracy. It has been said on this very forum hundreds of times; "We owe it to the game animals we hunt to make the most accurate and humane killing shot we can." As someone who has done long range shooting all my adult life, I'm all about following this code of ethics. I have a number of rifles and some shoot very well out of the box but were improved by having custom work done to them. I have a Weatherby with a Sims Deresonator and it saved me hundreds in possible custom work...just so I could tighten up my groups at longer ranges. It works for me. Why? Because I took the time to find that "sweet spot" on my barrel. Those who hate modern technology are welcome to use a flintlock and take nothing over 50 yards. You'll earn my respect, but I respect anyone who hunts ethically, whatever their sporting arm of choice is. And as Larry put so well "That's the cool thing about TV, it has an on/off switch." I'm not a fan of watching how many Impala's a guy can kill in one show, let alone week after week, but neither do I care about how many Whitetails bite the dust week after week. At least I'm not having to watch French tricycle races
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I think alot of us view hunting in Africa as a "up close and personal" style of hunting which tends to shape our views on long range hunting there. Ethical hunting is paramount to all of us without question. I guess I tend to not take into consideration detailed long range accuracy when hunting the dark continent as I prefer to be close enough to smell him before I pull the trigger..

For long range accuracy style of hunting I can understand the value of the deresonator..

01 February 2010, 08:39

Texas Blue Devil

There is no comparison at all to Tracks!!

I watch Adventures Abroad every now and then with my 10 year old son. I took him to Namibia last year, so he likes to watch anything related to Africa. Hands down, his favorites are Tracks and Boddington on Africa.

They use archery equipment an awful lot. This makes it very difficult to create an exciting show. I just find no entertainment value in watching a guy sitting on a waterhole shooting impala or warthogs.

01 February 2010, 09:07

Lhook7

quote:
Originally posted by ivan carter:
quote:
rubber donut looking thing on the barrel just past the forend. What is that?

its a rubber damper supposedly to tighten the group by damping down the harmonics of the barrel, i have guided a few guys with these and cant say i see any advantage ...

Thanks Ivan!

01 February 2010, 09:14

rxgremlin

I do have to say that as much as I like Tracks Across Africa, I wish there were a few more episodes centered around plains game. The TAA crew could make these hunts much more interesting than Adventures Abroad. One of the problems with Adventures Abroad is that they usually focus on one of the two guys sitting in a blind waiting for animals to come to the waterhole. I would much rather watch actual hunting.

01 February 2010, 09:18

Frank Beller

I had to quit watching them when they got in bed with Ted Nugent ..... that was the end of it for me.

01 February 2010, 11:04

BrettAKSCI

quote:
Originally posted by L. David Keith:
At least I'm not having to watch French tricycle races

Amen!!! No truer word hath been spoken!!!!

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01 February 2010, 16:16

dogcat

Thanks for the replies. This was a reality check for me as I watch "Ding" and "Dong" about once every 6 weeks and I ask myself 'why?' everytime.

The rubber do-dad on "Ding's" gun could be removed if he learned how to shoot or practiced a bit more.

The Bushnell "scope-n-ator" with the laser blaster and all of the other knobs is a bit much for me. Whatever happened to a scope you could just look through and shoot?

One advertisement for the show stated "dangerous game up close" with a picture of an nyala. Do not tell Ivan that nyala are now the new dangerous game. I would not want him getting too close.

01 February 2010, 18:25

Dutch44

I enjoy their opening theme music and graphics. Gives the illusion that it will be a serious show. After the music dies I switch channels to my DVR'd Tracks or Hornady's Africa.

Dutch

01 February 2010, 19:09

surestrike

Bushnell builds cheesy scopes so I see no reason why they wouldn't have a cheesy show.

01 February 2010, 19:18

onefunzr2

quote:
Originally posted by SableTrail:
I don't think the two guys are that bad. Let's try to find something good to say about them here.

OK, at least they're not two mush-mouthed southern hillbillys that can't be understood like so many of the other cable TV hunting shows. Cripes, you'd think no one north of the Mason-Dixon line can shoot a video.

01 February 2010, 19:53

Oryxhunter1983

Well how about the fact that they SHOT a baby eland???? No hair, and it was the size of mule deer. That's what drives me nuts about most tv shows...back-slapping over immature non-trophy animals.

The best part was describing the lodge as " TWO STAR" when he said that I almost fell out of my chair laughing.

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01 February 2010, 20:08

Buckshotaz

Don't put anyone are any products down just because you don't like them. Many people think sitting in a blind and wacking whatever is the next animal to come get a drink of water is ok, and there is a place for this type of hunting. If someone's product was going to pay for me to hunt Africa for 45 days I would say their product is the only way to go also, even if I had to have a donut on my rifle.