I have to admit being surprised I haven't seen anyone comment on the two outstanding episodes of Dangerous Game shown on Versus.
Although I think they were filmed in Zim, they each had me back in TZ emotionally. Especially, after the hunter didn't get a very good shot on the first buff, the feelings of desperation, confusion, failure, and the knowledge that you've endangered the lives of the entire party. That, followed by the adrenaline rush of the charge and putting down one of the most dangerous animals on God's green earth in what is, literally, a life or death situation.
The second episode had the party in elephant grass so tall the bull ele could only be detected as he raised the tip of his trunk over the top of the grass. Then, he explosively broke through the 20-30 feet of grass separating him and the hunter, who managed a snap shot to the brain dropping him.
I felt as if I were there!!!
Dave

Both recent episodes were really good as was this weeks Tracks Across Africa with an interview with Ivan Carter and great footage of Ele and buff.

Dutch

It's always easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

One that I appreciated was the elephant hunt where they showed villagers taking it apart for food.Usually no mention is made that the game is given to the locals for food.

I've missed them both. Didn't know they were back. Whne are they on now? jorge

I saw the Dangerous Game episode and it was decent. Two things cracked me up though. One was when David Morris compared hunting buffalo to whitetail and claimed the animals and their senses were the same... that is why he liked buff hunting! Since when does buff hunting even remotely compare to whitetail? Whitetail hunting is about sitting in a blind, food plots and bucks raised on protein feeders under high fence!

Buff hunting is tracking miles and miles after dugga boys or herds, no fences and as fair chase hunting as it gets. Don't mean to flame whitetail (I've killed a boxcar of 'em) but they are not the same.

Second was the look on the PH's face when David passed an old dugga boy slathered in mud and ancient because he wasn't a "trophy" meaning he wasn't wide enough. He ended the show killing a great bull but was a 38" bull that much better than the 36"?

Signed,
An old, reprobate whitetail hunter

I am with Jorge. What time and channel are Tracks and Dangerous Game? Also does anyone have time and place for Under Wild Skies and Get Wild? I haven't had the time to sit a watch so have probably missed several episodes of all these. Thanks!!


Larry Sellers

i saw this episode on Versus last Saturday. 9:30 Eastern

Great episdoe, even my wife who is not into hunting was impressed.

Under Wild Skies was preempted by girls soccer here. I get it at 6:30 a.m. Sunday mornings CST. Get Wild (Jugg Hunting)only shows a 5 minute trailer of the best of last season after 25 minutes of UWS.

Dutch

Nothing particularly witty to say as it's too early.

Dangerous Game airs at 9:30 PM Eastern
Dave

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Since when does buff hunting even remotely compare to whitetail? Whitetail hunting is about sitting in a blind, food plots and bucks raised on protein feeders under high fence!

bwanamrm: I'm all about what your saying, but don't believe all Whitetails are hunted over bait and behind high fence. I've hunted them in many States and only Texas allows baiting.
Whitetails are no Buffalo, but their nose, eyes and ears will match any Buffalo on earth IMHO. Slipping up on one Deer is hard enough, but dozens of them in thick brush would be a feat by anyone's standards. I owe much of what I've learned about hunting, tracking and respect for an animal to the Whitetail. No insult or jab at you intended by any means, just an observation that 34 years of big game hunting has shown me. And I do agree with you concerning the TAA show. Good hunting, David

I caught both shows.....tracks was particularly good this time. the elephant charge on DG was good........and yes I imeadiately noticed the look of digust on Zane's face when Morrison passed up that 1st fine buff. Under Wild Skies is over for the season....and mercifully so imho.....it was the worst season yet. To me that show peaked the year Ross Seyfried was on it.

bwanamrm, I must agree with Keith on this one. I have never hunted whitetails in Texas basically because of what you said (I will save them for when I am in my 80's or 90's and can't walk at all. Try hunting whitetails in the east a totally different story. Local people who know I hunt in Africa and other parts of the world say "You don't hunt deer around here do you?" My reply is hunting around the world is great fun and I love it, but nothing can compete with hunting whitetails in non fenced areas. I hunted (black powder season) with 5 other good hunters for a week and no one - no one saw a hair. Normally we take about a half dozen in that time frame, but not that year. JMO

I have to laugh a little. I've never hunted Buffs or Elephant, though I've had the privilege of seeing both of them over there, and there's no way the Whitetail deer compares!! Sure I've hunted Texas, and New York, and Florida, and Maine, and Colorado, and Oregon, and the "free range" Whitetail can surely be a tricky critter, but they don't attack and they don't require a .375 H&H or better to knock them down and out! Keep those good videos coming!

Whitetail normally don't fight back so the Buffalo has the edge there but a buffalo's smarts will only challenge a stick's vs the whitetail's smarts.

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bwanamrm: I'm all about what your saying, but don't believe all Whitetails are hunted over bait and behind high fence. I've hunted them in many States and only Texas allows baiting

Actually quite a few states besides Texas allow baiting...

Don't get me wrong, I love hunting whitetail and have across the country... Alberta, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Kansas, Idaho, Washington, Louisiana. But tracking buff ain't like hunting whitetail!

And I like David Morris, but his ranch in Texas is about high fences, food plots and protein. Not anything wrong with that and I will defend his right to hunt the way he chooses provided it is legal, but it ain't buff hunting IMO.

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Originally posted by Dutch44:
Under Wild Skies was preempted by girls soccer here. I get it at 6:30 a.m. Sunday mornings CST. Get Wild (Jugg Hunting)only shows a 5 minute trailer of the best of last season after 25 minutes of UWS.

Dutch

Nothing particularly witty to say as it's too early.

Isn't lucky there are no veiwers that would want to see these shows in MST or PST - no point in scheduling a realistic tim for us out west.(East coast biased progamming bastards !!!!)I had to get up at 5 am to see under wild skies last season on sunday mornings. Oh well - 4-5 hours of sleep is enuff on saturday night - right

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Whitetail hunting is about sitting in a blind, food plots and bucks raised on protein feeders under high fence!

No offense but.....not where I learned to hunt whitetails. In the midwest and west you walk, and walk, and walk, and walk, and walk some more - then glass and glass some more.

I guess you put on miles and miles hunting both Buffalo & whitetails, that is, if you "hunt" deer and not wait to "shoot" deer. Like I said no offense meant but I would and have gone crazy trying to hunt from a blind. I can't sit still that long.

Lance

I'm not puffed up, but what high fences and feeders? I glass and walk, and usually shoot them (whitetails)in ambush and in thick brush. I would like to go on a buff hunt to be able to get the comparison. Packy