What is going on with the Hunting Channels?

RUSTY1 · February 23, 2011, 10:49:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by Easykeeper:
That said the show "Heartland Bowhunter" is pretty well done. It's mostly compounds if that bothers you, but very high production values and beautiful videography. I also like Fred Eichlers shows.

I too enjoy Heartland Bowhunter. I love the cinematography. I watch it off their website though, every once in a while. I think they have a couple of new guys on the staff that shoot recurves though. This topic has been discussed here before and I too have thought about it. I think Terry, Curt, and some of the other guys should just start "Trad Gang Television" and get it over with!!! LOL!!

Spectre · February 23, 2011, 10:50:00 AM

There are a lot of states where crossbows are already legal to use during the archery season, man. Whats your point? A crossbow isn't a heck of a lot different that some of these hyper modern compounds. Or are you saying that the archery only season should really be labeled "traditional archery only"?

TexasStick81 · February 23, 2011, 10:51:00 AM

What channel is "heartland bowhunter" on? It didn't come up when I searched for it. I'm looking forward to the discovery show that others have talked about.

Spectre · February 23, 2011, 10:52:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by RUSTY1:

QuoteOriginally posted by Easykeeper:
That said the show "Heartland Bowhunter" is pretty well done. It's mostly compounds if that bothers you, but very high production values and beautiful videography. I also like Fred Eichlers shows.
I too enjoy Heartland Bowhunter. I love the cinematography. I watch it off their website though, every once in a while. I think they have a couple of new guys on the staff that shoot recurves though. This topic has been discussed here before and I too have thought about it. I think Terry, Curt, and some of the other guys should just start "Trad Gang Television" and get it over with!!! LOL!! [/b]

+1

Stixbowdrew · February 23, 2011, 10:59:00 AM

ITs all a bunch of horn porn, for the lack of a better word. Half those guys on there would sell their soul to make a dollar and its ruining the image of what hunting and being an outdoorsman is all about

wixwood · February 23, 2011, 10:59:00 AM

I'm not saying that archery only seasons should be trad only. In many states it is not legal to hunt the archery season with a crossbow and if you have an opinion that that is the way it should stay, express you opinion before it is too late. Why sit by and not act just because that is the way it is somewhere else?

hydrasport205 · February 23, 2011, 11:21:00 AM

I also cant stand to watch them. I think they disrespect the animals after a kill by acting stupid! big buck down, yea baby just makes me sick!

hydrasport205 · February 23, 2011, 11:26:00 AM

I would honestly rather watch a person once a week for 3 months and watch all they go through to get a deer all the ups and downs of this sport. but we all know that wouldnt sell.. what sells is a 140 plus falling on the ground every week.

Jim Wright · February 23, 2011, 11:28:00 AM

Jeff, as to clarifying what the 9 offenses that Ted Nugent plea-bargained out of, don't you think that the 1llegal kill and baiting that he pled guilty to are enough? As for game preserves and canned hunts, IF you opened your 100 acres to hunting for pay like the business in South dakota where Ted Nugent hunted does then yes, you would be selling canned hunts.

highpoint forge · February 23, 2011, 11:29:00 AM

If you think Ted ain't in it for the money, you are sadly mistaken friends. ALL of politics and causes come with price tags, whether these " influential figures" believe in it or not. It's all ADVERTISING boys. ALL sides are guilty of paying for advocacy, and that's sad.

Nugent is an annoying creature at best and a relic. He never fails to disrespect the animal he has just killed by hooting and hollering like it's a football game. If you like him great, but the 70s are over grandpa. He resonates with about 1% of the country.

We need to get rid of the young ones, like Pigman, etc. Kids look at the younger sideshow carny barkers like him and say, I wanna be an idiot like him; loud, used car salesman, big ol oil eating truck, super fast bow, yadda yadda, yadda.....makes me wanna puke.

string & fling · February 23, 2011, 11:38:00 AM

My big hang up with most of the shows,(not all of them)is the fact that they make it seem as if all you have to do is hang a stand, climb in, sit down, and Oh look! Here comes a 180" monster. They shoot him, and right away their chest is bowed out and it's man look at this giant!Look what we've done. They never mention, well we payed 5k to this outfitter to do all the work, or we are hunting behind a high fence (deer pen)! I'm confident that any one of us with common bowhunting knowledge could be sucessful under these conditions. I want to see some of these so called professional hunters come down here to the Kickapoo bottoms (East Texas) where i hunt and put one of those 180" monsters on the ground! I'm not gonna quit watching their shows,(they still ain't quite as depressing as the news!)But i'm like alot of yall, i would rather see a hard earned 6 point taken off the ground with a recurve or longbow. Rather than a 180" shot under a feeder with a 300 win mag. Just my thoughts. By the way this is an AWSOME site! I've learned so much from you guys about my bow and set up, just from reading these threads every nnow and then! Thanks to all!

sawtoothscream · February 23, 2011, 11:54:00 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by highpoint forge:
If you think Ted ain't in it for the money, you are sadly mistaken friends. ALL of politics and causes come with price tags, whether these " influential figures" believe in it or not. It's all ADVERTISING boys. ALL sides are guilty of paying for advocacy, and that's sad.

Nugent is an annoying creature at best and a relic. He never fails to disrespect the animal he has just killed by hooting and hollering like it's a football game. If you like him great, but the 70s are over grandpa. He resonates with about 1% of the country.

We need to get rid of the young ones, like Pigman, etc. Kids look at the younger sideshow carny barkers like him and say, I wanna be an idiot like him; loud, used car salesman, big ol oil eating truck, super fast bow, yadda yadda, yadda.....makes me wanna puke.

so i take it you hate tred barta and fred eichler also? must really hate some of the older hunters like howard hill also. cause fred has like the loudest celebration on earth after he kills something. same with tred barta. and in a few hill vids he shot chained up animals. plus they just shot a arrow through it, im sure the animal can care less at that point. the day i start crying and im not excited by my kill thats when i will stop hunting.