All,
Is anyone disgusted at how insulting "Deadliest Hunts" is to their audience? Seriously, did the producers/editors of this show smoke some crack before making this episode about Cameroon?

15 Minutes into the show, they have swapped back and forth, and the straw that broke the camel's back was mid-way through the show when "the cast including the PH" are running and yelling like morons saying shoot shoot that big Warthog, (mind you the video footage is of 3 female warthogs, total stock footage). Then they shoot at what appears to be Red River hogs, and the scene cuts away to a large warthog male and tons of ass-slapping and celebration.

Following the story...immediately after shooting the warthog...a lone big buffalo track is spotted, super fresh, and they get on the sticks and it looks like a giant..(Footage is of 2 roan walking for 5 seconds), and now after the commercial he's on the same sticks in the same location looking at a buffalo!


It's a hunting miracle...can't wait to finish the episode, had to take a break because the excitement was getting a little to much for me!

Have it on my dvr & have yet to watch it.
It's funny how they can take just a few minutes of video & turn it into a 30 minute show. You just keep seeing the same frames over & over.

Yep there is really vile carp on the hunting channels. And there is a minority of very good stuff too.

As much as I love hunting, I cannot watch any of it on TV. Sooner or later, the fake drama and bad editing gets to me and I never watch the show again.

So far, the longest that I've watched any hunting show is three episodes.

I agree with Fjold, all hunting tv sucks! All the shows are fake and, the producers are total snake oil salesmen. Each show is EXACTLY the same! Thank God we have the Home Shopping Channel and the Kardasians to watch on the tube. There really should be a ban on these hunting shows!

Funny Dave.

These shows keep increasing in stupidity. It is almost impossible to watch them anymore. I used to like jim Shockey. Even His show is full of ridiculous promotions ("I trust my life to......").

I realize the sponsors pay them, however they could scale the advertising down by 90%.

I have 2 24 hour hunting channels. I could probably count on one hand how many shows I have watched in the last 3 months.

BTW, nothing could be worse than the whitetail and turkey hunts. I believe a visit to the dentist would be better than having to suffer through one of these episodes.....

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
I agree with Fjold, all hunting tv sucks! All the shows are fake and, the producers are total snake oil salesmen. Each show is EXACTLY the same! Thank God we have the Home Shopping Channel and the Kardasians to watch on the tube. There really should be a ban on these hunting shows!

I respectfully disagree. The hunting shows are very successful salesmen and at least one has helped me personally in my hunting:

1. They have successfully maintained sales of a variety of camo clothing to a generation of hunters that left to their own common sense, would never have spent so much money on absolutely 100%, unhelpful equipment. Proving that good salesman can in fact, sell ice to Eskimos.

2. They sell lower price point rifles that clearly would not sell as well had they not been used repeatedly on hunts we would never have used them on if left to our common sense. One of many examples would be Shockey using a T/C venture bolt gun on a Marco Polo and Ibex hunt. Without such quality programming who would have thought that was a smart plan? Not me for sure. Tasco needs to hope on this money train. Thanks are due to these intrepid salesmen for showing me and so many others, the light.

3. On a more personal note, I would like to thank "Tracks". Several years ago now, I was contemplating a lower Zambezi hunt with Chifuti. But since they are on TV with such astonishing regularity, I decided to go elsewhere. I just felt that I had already hunted with them and had a great safari. It's like winning a free safari.

Thanks again for bringing us home shopping network TV tailored to hunters, and true and accurate hunting reality shows that would make the Kardashians blush.

I have to give a plug here for Dave & Safari Classics.
I never miss an episode of any of their shows. Commercials are what pays for the shows, without them there would only be piss poor PBS.
To me it's like travelling, you have to deal with some potholes to get from point A to point B. At least that's the way it is here in Louisiana.

Cecil
I was about to turn in application in for a Greeter position at Wall-Mart, but your nice response made me pause.
No, I just can't live the lie anymore... I am TV scum and for the good of all I should just send an Ebola-Gram to the networks that air all this trash and wipe the slate clean. Wink!

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Originally posted by Jason P:
These shows keep increasing in stupidity. It is almost impossible to watch them anymore. I used to like jim Shockey. Even His show is full of ridiculous promotions ("I trust my life to......").

I realize the sponsors pay them, however they could scale the advertising down by 90%.

I have 2 24 hour hunting channels. I could probably count on one hand how many shows I have watched in the last 3 months.

BTW, nothing could be worse than the whitetail and turkey hunts. I believe a visit to the dentist would be better than having to suffer through one of these episodes.....

+1

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
I agree with Fjold, all hunting tv sucks! All the shows are fake and, the producers are total snake oil salesmen. Each show is EXACTLY the same! Thank God we have the Home Shopping Channel and the Kardasians to watch on the tube. There really should be a ban on these hunting shows!

Dave- I have seen your programs many times,and again, this arrow wasn't sent your way. The editing and production of this specific show was by far the worst I've ever seen. All of your shows, that I have seen, are easy to follow, consistent, and usually do not have cut away shots from animals that are not actually being hunted and the actual animal shot.

Seriously, I challenge you to watch the show, and comment on what appears to be a a shot at a red river hog, while constantly cutting back to 3 baby female warthogs, and the buffoonery that follows as the Ph, hunter, and trackers are Yelling...shoot shoot...and then a large warthog male is in the recovery shot. Add that to the constant switching of scenes from Buff/Derby hunting, and the confusion the audience must have experienced. Overall, it's a piece of junk.

Now maybe you've used some backroom editing to fool us on occasion, however, overall it wasn't a confusing cluster of a show to watch...like the most recent episode of Dangerous Hunts!

I have no complaint about sponsors or commercials, modern tv has eliminated that for most of us, so sell on, we're all out to make a buck!

I mostly quit watching, too. I understand the need for commercials to pay the bills, but I'd like to see more than just a few minutes of film in a half-hour. This trick of repeating the same stuff after commercials really is insulting. Do the producers think the viewer is so stupid that he or she has forgotten where we left the story 120 seconds ago?
They pull this stuff on the HGTV network all the time, too.

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
I agree with Fjold, all hunting tv sucks! All the shows are fake and, the producers are total snake oil salesmen. Each show is EXACTLY the same! Thank God we have the Home Shopping Channel and the Kardasians to watch on the tube. There really should be a ban on these hunting shows!

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When I watch hunting shows, it is the only time I like watching commercials.

Guys, no worries. I know who is funnin' me, and who is serious. I'm a tongue in cheek kind of guy, unless I'm sticking my tongue out at you. LOl

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
This trick of repeating the same stuff after commercials really is insulting. Do the producers think the viewer is so stupid that he or she has forgotten where we left the story 120 seconds ago?

This really bugs me too. Almost as bad is cutting to the commercial just as the shot is about to go off. It is so predictable...

Dave, keep up the good work. I DVR a number of shows, and yours is one. Watched it last night while having my "sundowner" in my TR before dinner.

The show I thought was the stupidest ever was Benny Spies, but you know what? I find myself watching it sometimes because it is almost like he is spoofing all the shows out there. And he is a funny guy...buys a sheepherder a bunch of the "finest" beer - which was the cheapest he could find, I am sure.

I wish the producers would, at the end of the show, tell us what the hunt costs.

I sure wish we got some of your hunting shows down here, so I could have something to complain about too.

Haven't seen the show...Now that was worth posting wasn't it?

I used to have several shows on my "don't miss" list and would even search out times and dates of airing. It's now to the point that I very seldom look up a show time and don't have anyone of them on my "must see" list anymore. If I flip on to one of the Outdoor Show channels and something looks interesting might give it a look, more than likely not. I have found there are a lot more positive things to participate in than watching a lot of commercials, very little content and usually mediocre content at best.

Larry Sellers
SCI(International)Life Member
R8 Blaser

at least you people get something to watch we get nothing in uk but if i am honest i am getting as much info and words of wisdom from sites like this so keep up the good work guys and keep is uk hunters happy

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Originally posted by .366torque:
When I watch hunting shows, it is the only time I like watching commercials.

Yeah, Me too torque - I noticed I liked watching the commercials!

I watched the one on Papua New Guinea as I have worked there in the past. It was a bit drawn out but overall the viewer got a decent sense of what the crazy place is like.

I hunted Rusa Deer last spring in NZ, but never would have thought to go to PNG to hunt them or anything else.

I think Shockey's guys wanted to try something new, and we got to see it. I applaud the effort to show something other than a blond girl in a tight shirt sitting in a try stand getting all giggly over a deer she just arrowed.

Sadly, we only get the Outdoor Channel here, and as mentioned above, on the few occasions that I have turned to that channel, I found myself turning to watching something else.

The only African hunting I have seen on that channel was some bow hunting which was so silly as it makes the Kardashian's look like a classic!

From what I understand Dave, Aaron and a few others do turn out very good hunting shows.

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The only African hunting I have seen on that channel was some bow hunting which was so silly as it makes the Kardashian's look like a classic!

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Sadly, we only get the Outdoor Channel here, and as mentioned above, on the few occasions that I have turned to that channel, I found myself turning to watching something else.

The only African hunting I have seen on that channel was some bow hunting which was so silly as it makes the Kardashian's look like a classic!

From what I understand Dave, Aaron and a few others do turn out very good hunting shows.

You watch the Kardashians Saeed?

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Originally posted by Matt Graham:

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Originally posted by Saeed:
Sadly, we only get the Outdoor Channel here, and as mentioned above, on the few occasions that I have turned to that channel, I found myself turning to watching something else.

The only African hunting I have seen on that channel was some bow hunting which was so silly as it makes the Kardashian's look like a classic!

From what I understand Dave, Aaron and a few others do turn out very good hunting shows.

You watch the Kardashians Saeed?

No but I cannot imagine anything worse!

Hence the comparison!

Looking at KK-- makes me think darting a rhino would be easier.

Saeed, 'Tracks Across Africa' and 'Dark and Dangerous" both ran on Outdoor Channel last year. Do you not get the same package that stateside viewers get? Please let me know as I am very curious. Thanks.

You guys want hilarious AND good? Then watch Pigman, The Series. And absolute hoot.

Gotta learn to take the good with the bad. The worst African television show is better than the best whitetail show, in my opinion.

I do wish that the producers of outdoors television would ban together and agree not to subject us to morbidly obese hunters on camera. Watching someone that looks like they are six months pregnant waddle around is just flat distasteful. I finished the Deadliest Hunt episode wondering whether Mr. Severs gave birth on safari and if so whether it was a boy or girl.

[Mentioning "good" and "Pigman" in the same thread has to be some sort of sacrilege too.]

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Originally posted by MJines:
[Mentioning "good" and "Pigman" in the same thread has to be some sort of sacrilege too.]

I get three outdoor channels, and I have my TV set to record some of the shows that I like, like Dave's and Aaron's.

When Pigman comes on, I either switch the channel or go to the shows that I recorded. Listening to the Pigman is almost as bad as listening to Obama.

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Gotta learn to take the good with the bad. The worst African television show is better than the best whitetail show, in my opinion.

I do wish that the producers of outdoors television would ban together and agree not to subject us to morbidly obese hunters on camera. Watching someone that looks like they are six months pregnant waddle around is just flat distasteful. I finished the Deadliest Hunt episode wondering whether Mr. Severs gave birth on safari and if so whether it was a boy or girl. Roll Eyes

[Mentioning "good" and "Pigman" in the same thread has to be some sort of sacrilege too.]


Mike

Not a boy or girl, Mike. It was a litter of Springer Spaniels. I had to pass cause he didn't have any liver and white.

Dutch

Did anyone see the hunting episode where the host threw a spear into a tranquilized Cape Buffalo in Moz?

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Originally posted by Dave Fulson:
Saeed, 'Tracks Across Africa' and 'Dark and Dangerous" both ran on Outdoor Channel last year. Do you not get the same package that stateside viewers get? Please let me know as I am very curious. Thanks.

Dave,

I am not sure as I hardly ever watch anything on that channel.

Only times I have turned it on they had some silly hunt which did not take me long to realize it is nothing but a bunch of idiots adding fuel to their own silly egos, and has nothing to do with hunting.

I think we get only the basic package on the outdoor channel - there is no other choice offered.

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The only African hunting I have seen on that channel was some bow hunting which was so silly as it makes the Kardashian's look like a classic!

This needs to be reposted under the Nice Bosses thread. No other redeeming qualities.

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Originally posted by jorge:
You guys want hilarious AND good? Then watch Pigman, The Series. And absolute hoot.

I find Pigman to be mildly entertaining when he hunts pigs. However, the beginning of the show is extremely disturbing. I expect to break away to video of John Wayne Gacy or Jeffrey Dahmer. Not good for hunting at all.

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Originally posted by accipiter1:
Did anyone see the hunting episode where the host threw a spear into a tranquilized Cape Buffalo in Moz?

How do you know it was tranquilised?

Mike
I am one of those out of shape overweight desk jockeys who works very hard to make money to go on safari. I appreciate the fact that you don't have to be a marathon runner to have a successful safari. I am sure business would suffer if fat boys like myself stayed home. I am offended by your remarks.

Being offended makes it no more pleasant to have to watch. I would feel the same if I were the morbidly obese hunter . . . I would not want to subject the viewing public to having to endure watching me struggle and sweat to keep up.