Canned Deer

[Nimrodmar10]

I love to watch the outdoor channels on TV, but I'm getting aggravated by what I'm seeing lately. It seems like 2 out of 3 of the deer hunting shows on the networks are just showing the host traveling to some shooting ranch in Texas or some other state to hunt. They just go sit in one of the pre-positioned blind boxes inside a fenced area and shoot a big buck when he comes to the corn. Their buck has usually been pre-selected and they just shoot it when it walks out.
I'm sorry, but that's just not deer hunting

 

[birddog 68]

I love to watch the outdoor channels on TV, but I'm getting aggravated by what I'm seeing lately. It seems like 2 out of 3 of the deer hunting shows on the networks are just showing the host traveling to some shooting ranch in Texas or some other state to hunt. They just go sit in one of the pre-positioned blind boxes inside a fenced area and shoot a big buck when he comes to the corn. Their buck has usually been pre-selected and they just shoot it when it walks out.
I'm sorry, but that's just not deer hunting

This is why I haven't watched a hunting show in probably 5 years.
Youngsters will watch them and once they hit the woods they will be very frustrated because it's been a hour and they haven't killed a 170" buck yet!
By the way that's a nice avatar!

 

[69precision]

Even the ones not over bait/high fenced are still often private land expensive hunts that are nothing like what the average guy experiences when hunting. I get it, if you have a tv show, the most efficient way to have your show be exciting and have big bucks killed would be to go to an exclusive private hunt. For you or I it might seem like a lot, but from a business perspective paying $15-20k to kill a 200" mule deer probably makes sense financially. You're going to get a lot more viewers and spend less time than hunting public land for weeks to kill a 150 buck.

 

[Lee7588]

Agreed, seems like people want "the trophy" without putting in the work. Anymore if I watch a show I'd rather watch an elk, antelope, sheep, goat, ibex, etc. hunt.

 

[Lee7588]

Not to say that people still don't do that with those animals but overall they take more work than being dropped off at a stand

 

[3chester]

Big Woods Bucks has a podcast, deer hunting tales for guys that mostly track in Maine woods. Works right off the I-phone, Easy to listen, while having a breakfast.

 

[wvbearhunter]

I always find it hilarious when you can see the huge "cleared" spot where the animals have been baited in until.right before the "hunt"

 

[Hand Skills]

Canned Deer.

That's where you take the meat and boil it in a jar before putting a sealer lid on, isn't it?

Delicious

 

[tknuts103]

I have hunted few free range hunts that are probably just as easy, if not easier, than canned hunts. Definitely takes the fun out of it when you can just walk to within 100 yards of a mule deer and shoot it. Some people just have it wayyyy too easy. The place I went last year, the owner drives around the property every night so the deer get used to seeing the truck. We could just drive right up to the mule deer to get a look at them. I like a challenge not these hunts

 

[Hand Skills]

Sounds more like Farming then Hunting to me, but the result is the same I guess

 

[Nimrodmar10]

I always find it hilarious when you can see the huge "cleared" spot where the animals have been baited in until.right before the "hunt"

Most of the time they're standing in corn spread on the ground

 

[MagnumManiac]

I couldn't believe my eyes the first time I saw canned whole chicken, we have nothing like that here, but woulda thought the next step would be turkey, not deer…AMAZING!

 

[Ol' Red]

Don't forget the $500.00 camo they have to wear and brag about while sitting in the stand for that hour. I won't even get into the rest of the gear required for that 60 yard shot to be successful.

 

[johnmyers]

The bad this is new and or inexperienced hunters buy right in to it. Then spend all they can afford and still don't have skill or experience to hunt whitetails