Setterman said:I absolutely despise pretty much every single hunting show and hunting tv "star". Pretty much every show is staged in some way or utilizes some absurd gimmick to make killing things look easy.
The cool guy speed metal music, skull and crossbone logos, tatoos of game animals, vehicles covered in stickers etc etc etc are the cellar of this tradition.
It's part of my huge disdain for the whole blind/decoy stuff, every swinging you know what on TV is staked out in a blind with a decoy killing turkeys. Gone are the old days of watching a hunter move through the woods and set up on a gobbling bird which comes in and dies.
The shows and younger generation glorify the kill rather than the hunt, and it seems as if most "hunters" these days don't enjoy the hunt or the experience, rather only relish in the death and publicity they might receive.
Rant mode off, this stuff really crawls up my rear and gets me stirred up. I'm exhausted from Grouse hunting all weekend and going to bed...haha.
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I think there has been a significant segment of our hunters that would jump at the chance to shoot their four gobblers out of a 20' pen so they could have the bragging rights of the dead birds without any of the work. You can look at all types of hunting where the hunt has become secondary to the dead animal.
Personally, the hunts I remember years later are the days where the gobbler wins and I go home empty handed rather than the flopper days.
