I was intrigued by the genteleman below that is letting his magazine subscriptions lapse because of a perceived lack of journalisim by todays authors. Got me to thinking...I find myself in a similar situation but with hunting videos. With very few exceptions they are all, so very obviously, canned hunts or whatever you wish to call them. The latest exposure of fraud being the Jimmy Houston debacle.

My "favorite" hunting video scene (and its on just about all of 'em): How the cameraman finds the deer/caribou/pronghorn/etc and just sits beside the dead animal videoing while the "hunter" blood trails the animal and leaps for joy when he finally finds it! Damn! Just look for your cameraman and you will find your damn animal! During the early days, the ol Buckmaster was even seen blood trailing deer in this manner and, upon finding his quarry, it was obviously already gutted! They would only show hero shots of the deer from the backside and it's midsection was alread caved in, obviously gutted..what a hoot!

Just wondered if other folks felt the same way and what their favorite fake hunting scenes were.

Have a nice weekend.

I don't have much time for most of the videos either. Full camo walking into a box blind!!!What pattern is appropriate??For me the main gripe is the poor shooting, mostly with bow hunters, if these are the "best" hunters out there, the numbers of animals wounded and lost must be staggering.I do enjoy Primos and Eastmans, I feel they are more candid than most.

I watched a 30 minutes segment of a guy hunting Caribou with a long bow while I was on my treadmill exercising. I thought that if the guy was on TV and had a whole 30 minutes devoted to him that surely he would get something. It was not to be. He merely flung arrows and gushed about what a priviledge it was to be hunting these animals...bla, bla, bla. If that will get you on TV, I think I should be on TV and make a video. Just think, I could be rich and deduct my hunting on my taxes!!!

Actually, tracking a gutted dear is a tiny notch above what I saw. They must be desperate for content and there must be a lot of suckers that buy that stuff.

This time I disagree.....if Capstick was still alive and making videos, I'd still buy them,

Yes there was advertizing hidden in them and yes the cmeraman was strategically placed to see the tracking and yes there was some staging of the scenes but there was also a lot of education of game I'll never get to hunt and in places I'll alwys want to go some day.

However some of the videos are worthless there are some that are very entertaining because they bring new information about the game and location.

Elkman you are right...come to think of it I too have seen some downright sorry bow shots. I can say that because I bow hunt as well...traditional (recurve) at that! The narrator always seems to say something to the effect that "while the shot may look marginal, it was only because of the angle of the cameraman...we found the deer shortly after the shot as you will see after this word from our sponsors." Afterwards, you see them tracking a gut shot deer and 9 times out of 10, if you look carefully, it will be the next day...also, look carefully for the bloodhound just off camera too.

I dunno, in retrospect, I would get a dog too to do my tracking as opposed to loosing the deer.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Hank H.:
I can say that because I bow hunt as well...traditional (recurve) at that!QUOTE]

Thanx...its tough to watch a wallhanger walk at 30 yds with them dern sticks, but I only have myself to blame....if I could shoot effectively past 25 it would not happen! Tough, but it makes rifle season all the better.

HankH,

Yeah, but he woulda never gotten within 30 yards if you had a 270 or so!

To the rest: try Doublegun Journal for something different!