Most Hunting shows on TV are a joke

CAPTAIN HOOK 
......and to think some call that hunting!..........sad, real sad.

And some call fishing for steelhead stacked into the legion hole fishing............. Its all what floats your boat. As long as someone is legally hunting or fishing, I all care about is that they are enjoying themselves and supporting the outdoor sports. Glad to see them out there. 

CAPTAIN HOOK
Still pitiful.......legal or not.
 
One thing I like about fishing ....trophy fish caught on "private waters" don't count in record books. No recognition given to certain people or groups for the private no competition advantage.   

Is fishing for steelhead in the legion hole "pitiful" or stocked trout? Or hunting over dogs for pheasant in a SGL field that was stocked the day before? 

 Ooops double click.   Stupid double click!
 
 
 
 

Anyone that fishes for Steel in the Erie Tribs or for stocked trout on opening day then turns around and criticizes hunting deer from a box blind or bear over bait as not hunting needs to do a little self reflection. Sorry..... I just hate it when I see hunters bashing other hunters for hunting legally. 

I personally don't fish for stocked Trout anywhere. I do fish for returning or migrating Steelhead on several Great Lakes. I release almost all my fish caught, even trophy size fish. I never fish on private posted waters or have ever used a private guide. I try to always avoid crowds or waters that are too small or busy with people. And yes I do think it's pitiful to see 15 adult guys standing in a circle in one foot of water trying to catch fish! Just won't see me there.
 
I prefer the challenge of all sports , the competition of pursuing game or fish on an "equal" playing field. Fair chase are a words I like to use. Hunting animals enclosed in a fenced in area will never be my cup of tea. It's legal also, just as is hunting over bait or on private posted property legal in many areas. So when I watch a show on TV and see some person squeeze a trigger on an animal at a loaded feeder , hunting out of a luxury suite on stilts, high above his target on private heavily posted land I call it as I see it.............pitiful ! 
 
What would you call it ?       

An opportunity to change the channel.

Funny how people will draw deer into their area with food for weeks or months before hunting and think that's not patterning deer to easy food access. I have deer come to my bird feeder every day at just about sunset daily. If I removed the bird feeder today I bet for the next several weeks or months those same deer would continue to come in and look for feed. They were simply patterned to come "my way" by being hungry.  
 
Your right it's just my opinion.....nothing more.
 
A guy I know plants lots of buckwheat in his hunting area said it really brings the deer in from all areas steady.....lol    

No not directed to you personally, just saying what I've seen and heard over the years by some so called sport hunters. Lots of things are legal but some people like using a slight advantage so as to make the odds more favorable for their success. Lets just say they teeter on the edges of the laws.   

That would known as "hunting bare"...let's listen for the moan...😏


Sorry Jigs.. I couldn't wait.😜

Would you feel the same way if the Hunter was disabled or terminally ill or a member of the military about to leave for a dangerous deployment?

Not saying this was the case for the show you seen, just playing devils advocate. While what you described most certainly sound like easy hunting. I guess I'm from the school of what ever floats your boat. I know guys who hunt in fences and feel perfectly ok with that. But that's another discussion because it's more complex than it sounds

If the guy was handicapped I would understand fully 100%....this conversation wouldn't happen.
 
I just think it's sad that some adult hunting shows I've seen on TV are about such easy pickings at killing trophy animals that I don't see the skill ,sport, or thrill. I guess if paying to shoot a ten point buck enclosed in a fenced area or eating at a feeder is someone's idea of big game hunting I'd advise that person to never try hunting Grizzly Bear in recluse mountain ranges! But I don't think a pampered hunter like that would ever think about anything close to that !    

I'll agree to that, there were lots of products to sell or advertised by sponsors .
 
In reality even most outdoor pro's are not that great, but when you have money and time it's much easier to accomplish what most think is great or special....... at least on TV. 

https://youtu.be/tDsUx4PH5Aw  A canned hunt is a canned hunt, I don't care if you're handicapped, a veteran, or anything else.  And why does anybody even go to these examples anyway?  Don't brag you shot a 180 when you paid $5000 and were told by the game ranch managers which deer you could or couldn't shoot.  The narration on this video is hard to listen to, obviously PETA or some other outfit put it together, but it goes to the heart of this conversation.  

I brought up the handicap example as nearly food for thought, It can make a person look inside to see exactly where they stand on an issue. I would find it hard to believe most people on there soap box could look a person with a handicap or terminal illness and explain to them how they feel that their canned hunt is wrong.

It's a polarizing topic, they would not be in business if people didn't go to them.

Another food for thought question. Say a mature whitetail buck has a home range of 1000 acres, if you were to hunt in a square pen that is 20,000 acres. No feeders, just business as usual if there were no fence, stands of timber. Swamp. Field. Some ag fields. Hills. Valleys.

Is that the better or worse than a feeder hunt on nonfenced private land?

You guys are right those hunting shows are only entertainment just like movies at the theaters. Some are horror, some drama , some action . I'd label the one I watched comedy !    
 
Some people need a handicap to be successful in hunting sports.....might be a fence, might be a guide, might be a feeder, might be money....might be cheating! As long as it's hanging on the wall who will ever know.....but you and your conscious.