I haven't liked any hunting shows since Curt Gowdy was hosting American Sportsman. Here's the latest reason to dislike them even more:

http://news.yahoo.com/hunting-...BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--

Forrest, I think it is shows that tend to make us look bad and am at least glad that we have troopers paying attention to nab the real law breakers.

When there is money involved it tends to bring out the worst in some people.

A old time poacher once told me if your going to some thing illegal do it by your self and don't tell ay body about.

More people are caught because they told some else.

Talk about putting a flag on yourself and waving high up in the air for every one to see

TV Youtube seem to be the ultimate telling some one else.

What a disgrace. Good job on the troopers. Stuck in hotel in ANC read in paper amazing but nothing surprises me anymore

I commented on another part of AR on this, but net if you ever saw any of their shows, whether they were legally hunting or not, it makes hunting look bad. Rednecks with video editing gear basically.

I loved it when Gerald McRaney was the host of Beretta's show. That was first class.

Money brings a lot of crooks to the outfitting business, the various state wildlife agencies, BLM, Forest Service and Federal Fish and Wildlife service do a hell of a business in bringing them down.

The arrogance of breaking the law under the public eye, is what I don't understand.

I know this is "racial profiling", but Mississippi? Louisiana? Poachers? Not surprising.

I hope to heaven that they lose their ability to hunt and fish in Alaska for life. Scum.

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Lucky for them they were doing this in Alaska and not Africa, they might have been shot if caught.

Hunting shows generally leave me cold..To start with I would normally shoot way before these guys who sit there and wait for the perfect broadside shot like one would expect from a bow hunter...More and more I have quit stand hunting for deer, other than meat hunting does, and have gone back to spot and stalk or just walking and bushing out a buck. My favorite hunt is horse back in the rimrock country and bailing off and shooting when you jump a buck...Hunting shows seem like they are all stand shooting, even for mule deer and elk seems to support "bush wacking and back shooting".

Long range shooting like 1000 to 2000 yards strikes me as not hunting, and closer to murder and I know in my heart of hearts lots of legs get blown off, and its not hunting under any circumstances.

I also understand that some terrain require stand shooting, some hunting such as Leopard requires baiting, but just can't understand Long Range sniping at game, it seems unethical. But as long as its legal to each his own.

Not sure what the shows have to do with poaching, guess I lived thru another crisis without knowing about it, or missed something. I know poachers exist, and in some places its become a way of life, handed down from one generation to another, both in the USA and other countries, in some cases it,s subsistence, and in other cases it is greed and/or a lack of character..Poaching is not a cut and dried situation, it has degrees of legality IMO..

You missed it. All over papers in Anchorage wile I was waiting for my ill fated hunt......