TV Hunting Shows

As someone who has dabbled in videoing, you need the field talk to make it more real.

I am opposite of you, I don't like voice overs much at all.

Lapel microphones make that whispering sound much better though


ETA: I don't like the staged feel to hunting shows and thats what most voiceovers do for me

These are the reasons I don't watch hunting shows. In this order:

1) Cut In Shots: When the camera cuts away from the action to show a close up cut in of the finger knocking off the safety and closing around the trigger. It makes me throw up in my mouth.

2) The Fake Camraderie: If I have to hear: "My good buddy" or "man, this is great fellowhip" or anything like that for the 27,000th time, I will turn it off. Sitting around the fire. Picking the guitar. Michael Waddell is the absolute king of that cheesy crap.

3) Fixing Dinner/Driving Down the Interstate/Getting Bags from the Airport/Driving up the Driveway. Unless you are going to Inner Mongolia where the trip is actually most of the point, then it adds nothing. Like, I don't want to hear about your 14 hour drive from West Point, MS to NW Kansas. I know. You think it makes you hard core. It doesn't.

4) Them taking a 127" whitetail on Day 5 of a 5 day hunt, just to get a kill on camera, and then acting excited about it.

5) The shot of the deer laying on the ground from the angle behind the deer. But pretending that the guy is just walking up on it for the first time. That's awful.

So, yeah. This response sort of got away from me. I pretty much hate everything about hunting shows.

But like the OP, I enjoy seeing new terrain, and exotic animals. Considering all of the above, Jim Shockey probably does the best job for my taste. Which of course won't be everyone's cup of tea.

I don't even watch hunting shows at all any more for all the reasons No Colors listed plus some others.

I'm just ready for October to hurry up and get here!

So much junk now the only ones I would watch are the ones that have squirrel hunting with dogs or hunting rabbits with beagles. They can't "FAKE" these!!!!

As stated already, most are pretty bad. Meat eater, shockey, and heartland bow hunter are ones I'll actually watch and enjoy. Oh, and primos.

MeatEater is the GOAT.

I think all the other ones are dumb.

I have a few I record. Pig Man is kinda my favorite. He's pretty genuine and doesn't care about the PC bullshite. He will tell you he is there to shoot animals in the face and if you don't like it change the channel.

Know the guys from Trained Assasin but don't watch it because its the same copy and paste shite all the other hunting shows do

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TV Hunting Shows by Tiger inTampa

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They've pretty much turned hunting into a shitshow, "industry". They're pretty much all shite IMO.