Just watched Melissa Bachman from a Winchester show on the Sportsman Channel arrow a buck in the upper leg just below the chest area! MY! MY! MY! Her arrows must have a lot more KILLING POWER than mine ever did!

Hip

It could be that the broadhead severed the main artery that runs down the leg and that would be deadly.

Hipshoot,
A rancher in the Texas hill country told me that he once let archery hunters on his property, but after finding many dead deer , (many with arrows still in them) he cut them off and went with rifles only.
Do not blame him a bit.

It is just that the show would show such a poor hit on the air and then be proud of it !!!

Hip

Is the buck they show her with later the same one she shot?

I would say 90 plus of these whitetail hunts take place on game farms.

Of course they find the wounded deer.

I love love it when they say we left the deer over night.

That means a bad hit.

Leaving a deer over night almost always means the meat is not salvageable.

In warm weather I seen meat sour in a few hours.

from the title of the post i thought it was about biebs

Yes, you see a lot of that "leave the deer overnight" stuff on the bow hunting episodes. I don't why but bow hunting can be very addictive to the point that some people just never use the gun again. One thing I do know about bow hunting is that your broadheads must always be kept razor sharp or you will have problems, they must cut arteries and veins very smoothly to keep the clotting reaction from taking effect.

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Originally posted by butchloc:
from the title of the post i thought it was about biebs

Hip

Totally unrealistic as to what real-life archery hunting is like most of these shows. One of the best ones IMO is Live 2 Hunt with Cody something....guy does it right.

I can't stand the box blind bullshit.....but to each his own and I very well may end up in one when I get too old to do it the hard way.

I use to really enjoy my Bow hunting days. But alas too old now and the bow ruined both of my shoulders.

Hip

A person on our lease just lost a large 10 pointer 145 inches shot with a bow at 12 yards. I do not like bows personally.

A good blood trailing dog really cuts down on the loses.

My dogs and I have helped recover a lot of deer.

I had to put my last one down a couple of years ago.

I found hunting dogs were easy to train for blood trailing.

Ive seen more than one show where they took the shot at daybreak, and were takeing picture under light or car lights..

Ive also seen the saturday morning show stoppers shoot Bison and elk over the truck hood, the go back and film (stage) the stalk, happens a lot..Its a joke these days..not all Im sure but pretty close to most..

A dog is the best tracker there is, no doubt about that...A good dog is fail proof..

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Originally posted by crshelton:
Hipshoot,
A rancher in the Texas hill country told me that he once let archery hunters on his property, but after finding many dead deer , (many with arrows still in them) he cut them off and went with rifles only.
Do not blame him a bit.

I do not allow archery hunters on my ranch. They all want a discount and complain when they are unsuccessful.

No thanks.

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Originally posted by Atkinson:
Ive seen more than one show where they took the shot at daybreak, and were takeing picture under light or car lights..

Ive also seen the saturday morning show stoppers shoot Bison and elk over the truck hood, the go back and film (stage) the stalk, happens a lot..Its a joke these days..not all Im sure but pretty close to most..

There is too much loud whispering in those TV show blinds and stands to be believable.

They still whisper after the kill!! DEAD DEER DON'T RUN OFF!! NO ACADAMY AWARDS FOR HUNTING SHOWS..

I can't stomach any of them.

It's not REAL hunting and usually staged as hell. I want to watch them but I cannot because of the fakery. They are not celebrities to me but rather a bunch of dudes trying to make money off wildlife.

You guys can have them all! I'll go hunting or shooting instead. There are some great hunting books out there! THAT I can go for.

Zeke