re: What are you thoughts on Duck Dynasty's effect on duck hunting?

I've gone through phases of painting/not painting my face since the 1980s, before hunting on television was a common thing. I think I initially started doing it because of Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone in either Commando or Rambo, I can't remember. Maybe it was a different action movie I saw as a kid. My girls want to do it now because they think it's fun, so I go along with it sometimes. The only problem I have with the DD show and its popularity is every time I show up somewhere with residual paint or a 5-day-old beard someone says "you trying to be Phil Robertson now I see."

I'm happy for the DD guys to have made a living doing something they love, and any jackass on this board that says he'd rather be sitting in an office chair or running a forklift instead of hunting/promoting hunting for a living is a fricking liar. The only negative impact I can see these guys have made on hunting is the fact that some kids are deciding to become hunters and think they can just buy the kit and kill ducks/deer/whatever. This complaint isn't aimed directly at the DD folks, rather the entire hunting industry that has commercialized hunting to the point where I can't find camo that doesn't have neon green striping/logos, or a turkey call that isn't called the "big sexy hardlegging raspy 2-timing hot angel fire double reed" or something stupid like that.