Absolutely Disgusting

[Wild Bill G]

Back to the reason for the thread is there even a slim chance that the Jordans showed us they are human. When we are hunting nothing is a guarantee. Maybe other hosts of shows just don't show their poor shots. I am pretty sure most hunters try their very best to do everything right but eventually the odds are against us.
As for saying yhere is no reason to make a poor shot with modern archery equipment is like saying there is no reason to have a vehicle accident with modern vehicles.

 

[CaptnC]

Just watched Tombob over the weekend...they bow shot three deer and none were found after the hunt. They were all three found later.

 

[26Reload]

Absolutely Disgusting.......

 

[Pdvdh]

Absolutely Disgusting.......

At least you're consistent, if nothing more.
You ought to consider outlawing hunting. Or mandatory jail sentences for youngsters learning how to hunt that fail to retrieve any wounded animal. That's sure to be a source if encouragement that will boost the interest in hunting.

 

[CaptnC]

The show host had his antlers mail to him several days after the hunt...

My point is if you can only put an arrow through the guts of a deer...at least keep it off the TV. I know **** happens, but don' put it out there and act like a great hunter.

I've hit one at an odd angle and didn't find it until turkey season. I didn't run around showing him off and bragging about my big buck.

 

[Pdvdh]

If looking for a moral compass, I suggest something better than TV and blockbuster movies.

There's an off button for what ailes you.

 

[TwoMore]

I dont watch much on hunting shows , it makes me sad to see the commercialism. I did watch one a long time ago where Bob Faulkrod was bow huntin a polar bear and hit it in the shoulder , that bear played dead and Faulkrod started to move in, that the bear got up and was in rout to eat him. he froze and screamed like a school girl and his guide shot the bear and saved his behind. what ever that guide was shooting was a big time thumper, it dropped that bear big time !

 

[26Reload]

At least you're consistent, if nothing more.
You ought to consider outlawing hunting. Or mandatory jail sentences for youngsters learning how to hunt that fail to retrieve any wounded animal. That's sure to be a source if encouragement that will boost the interest in hunting.

And I guess you are the man....phorwath...

If these guys shooting these animals for a living can't do a better job of it in front of a camera..maybe they ought to fire themselves...
Like I have stated before..I hunt to eat wildgame..
I don't get a big fat paycheck for killing one on tv......
being a professional is being a pofessional....no matter what the job is...

Comparing a professional hunter to a youngster?
Have you lost your sensibility....or have you never had any...

My son took a tough downhill shot on a buck once...it buckjumped like a heart shot..and disappeared into tangle of garbage...by the time we got to where it disappeared I knew it wasn't mortally wounded...so I sat him down and explained the situation....I worked that trail for 200 yards though garbage...finding very little blood...once we hit the timberline the animal slowed..so I let him track it..we stalked thru that timber and he put a finishing shot into that buck at 30 feet...I butchered that animal after a few pictures and we packed it two(2) miles back up to the top of the mountain...he had hit that buck in the ankle.....did I forget to mention...my son was nine......he learned valuable information that day...his next animal was a cow elk 100 yards..bang flop.. his next deer bang flop...his next elk bang flop..at 300 yards....

Kids losing a game animal may deter them from wanting to hunt ever again.....its never good...
Teaching that kid the responsibility to look for that animal and to find that animal is a whole new realism to hunting...

Watching professionals on tv gut shooting animals..others not doing everything they can on a canned hunt to find a mortally wounded animal...maybe thats your world...I didn't grow up there...

 

[Pdvdh]

And I guess you are the man....phorwath...

Watching professionals on tv gut shooting animals..others not doing everything they can on a canned hunt to find a mortally wounded animal...maybe thats your world...I didn't grow up there...

Did you ever grow up?

There's an OFF button for you also. Maybe that's me. Your OFF button. The one that sets you OFF.

If you step down from your pedestal, and walk out from behind your pulpit, I'd guess you could locate it. You being the better man and all...

 

[Pdvdh]

Absolutely Disgusting.......

Are you referring to this Thread, your Posts in this Thread, or yourself?

Or everyone that has a difference of opinion? And the list goes on and on, just as you go on and on...

 

[Str8shooterTX]

Have I ever lost a squirrel, duck or turkey in my lifetime? Of Course.
As a boy of 12 I once chopped down a old dead tree about 2 feet in diam with an ax to get a squirrel I had made a poor shot on in northern Wis. using a pellet gun(old Crossman 110 pump action, scoped I might add)as a way of explaining the mentality I have always had and was raised with. I always try everything I can do to make the "perfect" shot. I have passed on wayyyyyyy more animals then I have pulled the trigger or pulled the arrow release or let the arrow slide under my leather gloved fingers over 40 years of hunting. (going back to my first duck with a slingshot at 8. I swam for a very long way in cold water two bring him home to dad. LOL (*** whooping ensued with lesson learned)
To this day I have never lost a deer, bear, elk to a poor shot. Maybe that is luck, maybe that is because even out to my personal longest shot of 750 on a deer, I am forever vigilant to take the best shot. Maybe even though I could never count the total deer, hogs, elk, bear etc. It is far harder to get it on film. I am not hunting while filming trying to get "the shot". It is easier for me. But If filming for a show I hold you to a higher standard then me and if you take the **** show shot you know that was bad, then you have a duty to face the fall out. i would do the same in my job if I f'd up. And in 49 years of life that is something I hold dear.
Side note, yotes, hogs and other pest control animals are not applicable to this.

 

[26Reload]

There you go...reminded me of my lost ducks....
Not so much lost..but....
I had shot my limit of mallards one morning with a couple of other guys in the blind...two of my drakes had fallen on the other side of the ditch line...lying just 20 yards from the blind in the grass...
I had to wait for the other guys to finish their limits..then pickup decoys..then hike back out of the flooded ranch to the truck..to drive three miles around the ditch to park and walk out to retrieve my drakes...when I got there..the drakes weren't anywhere around....but there were two piles of feathers where they had been....the hawks beat me to them..they were having lunch in the willows on the other side of the ditch....didn't even chirp thank you....

 

[Wild Bill G]

These shows have shown that people make mistakes. However from the sounds of it the animals were not lost they were found. I can not and will not believe that in 40 years of hunting straightshooter has never lost an animal. Is it time to call the Guiness book of world records maybe.
I have watched alot of hunting videos and there is more to them then what we see and know but we should not be judging these guys who trying to help get more people into hunting. I seen how upset those guys are when they lose an animal but I have never seen them shrug it off walk away and oh well big deal it is only a deer or what evre they are hunting. What is disgusting is sitting back and judging them without knowing the whole story. I have done this too and ashamed of myself for doing so. Why because I know some day the same thing could happen to me.

 

[Str8shooterTX]

There you go...reminded me of my lost ducks....
Not so much lost..but....
I had shot my limit of mallards one morning with a couple of other guys in the blind...two of my drakes had fallen on the other side of the ditch line...lying just 20 yards from the blind in the grass...
I had to wait for the other guys to finish their limits..then pickup decoys..then hike back out of the flooded ranch to the truck..to drive three miles around the ditch to park and walk out to retrieve my drakes...when I got there..the drakes weren't anywhere around....but there were two piles of feathers where they had been....the hawks beat me to them..they were having lunch in the willows on the other side of the ditch....didn't even chirp thank you....

Agreed.

These shows have shown that people make mistakes. However from the sounds of it the animals were not lost they were found. I can not and will not believe that in 40 years of hunting straightshooter has never lost an animal. Is it time to call the Guiness book of world records maybe.
I have watched alot of hunting videos and there is more to them then what we see and know but we should not be judging these guys who trying to help get more people into hunting. I seen how upset those guys are when they lose an animal but I have never seen them shrug it off walk away and oh well big deal it is only a deer or what evre they are hunting. What is disgusting is sitting back and judging them without knowing the whole story. I have done this too and ashamed of myself for doing so. Why because I know some day the same thing could happen to me.

I said as much at the beginning that I have. I also said what I have not. I only take shots I know I can make and as of yet I have never lost a deer, bear, or elk. Pot stirring will not change the fact it was a horrible shot.