Author Topic: 30-30 TV Show (Read 4084 times)

navylawdog · « **Reply #30 on:** January 05, 2010, 09:22:31 AM »

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on January 05, 2010, 02:51:08 AM

id like to know where so of those idiots come from. Do they just have enough money from daddy to do some fliming and submit it for approval. I chuckle everytime i see somebody like buck mcnealy or that hot blond they have hunting in africa. I have forgot more about guns loading and hunting then the two of them put together. I can see them using someone like craig boddington as hes well known (although i dont care for him) or jim wilson or a few others but it seems like 3/4s of these shows have self proclaimed hunting experts that nobodys even heard of. Bow hunting shows are even worse for this. Question of the week is how do i become an expert so someone will pay me to go to africa to hunt the big 5 with a handgun?

Now that would be a hunting show I am sure we would all watch. Not only would it be a real hunter and lover of the outdoors we could learn from but it would have an added twist with the revolvers. You have my vote Lloyd!

Navylawdog

Old Grizz · « **Reply #31 on:** January 05, 2010, 09:43:48 AM »

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on January 05, 2010, 02:51:08 AM

id like to know where so of those idiots come from. Do they just have enough money from daddy to do some fliming and submit it for approval. I chuckle everytime i see somebody like buck mcnealy or that hot blond they have hunting in africa. I have forgot more about guns loading and hunting then the two of them put together. I can see them using someone like craig boddington as hes well known (although i dont care for him) or jim wilson or a few others but it seems like 3/4s of these shows have self proclaimed hunting experts that nobodys even heard of. Bow hunting shows are even worse for this. Question of the week is how do i become an expert so someone will pay me to go to africa to hunt the big 5 with a handgun?

crash87 · « **Reply #32 on:** January 06, 2010, 06:47:55 AM »

Quote from: mirage1988 on January 03, 2010, 11:59:30 AM

T/C spends a lot on marketing but they are still in business, which is more than can be said for Knight. I can't stand the infomercials either, but I am glad I have a rifle that is still being manufactured by a company that is still in business!
CW

If you owned an encore you wouldn't ask that question

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Maybe because they sold out to Smith & Wesson, if I'm not mistaken.
As far as the shows go, When, I watch them I'm always quite amazed at the restaging of the shot, for lack of a better phrase. It usually goes something like this, wannabe hunter to cameraman, "Are you on him?" "yea, take him", Then the camera pans into the wannabe as he slides off the saftey catch with more noise than the dropping of pots and pans on a concrete floor. Then the obligatory kill scene and the, restaged, coming up to the dead animal, handshakes and look of being pleased but visually not happy he had to take a smaller animal, than the area "could" produce, but hey the show must go on. Then recount in every detail what we just saw, AND don't forget to thank the sponser.
I'm not disapproving of such ways to make a living, I could be called a little jealous. I to would like to have someone pay me to hunt the big five and such things, Or be able to carve up my guns for the sake of television and see myself on the T.V. If a gimmick like this guy getting all the animals in north america with a lever works for him, maybe, all one would need is a gimmick to sell to some advertizers, to get his own show. I've been working on such a thing, I would stalk (walk) up to the animal as close as the camera will allow, and still not see the fence, and then fire a warning shot before taking the kill shot, the racking of taking off the safety as loud as I can, of course will be a given.
CRASH87

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #33 on:** January 06, 2010, 07:15:31 AM »

I love this site , we start off talking about a show on 30-30 win and end up bashing a single shot .

mirage1988 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 06, 2010, 08:19:49 AM »

Quote from: SHOOTALL on January 06, 2010, 07:15:31 AM

I love this site , we start off talking about a show on 30-30 win and end up bashing a single shot .

that's fine, bash away

of all the rifles I own, the encore muzzleloader is the one that gets to go hunting the most. If everyone used the same gun and the same cartridge, the gun shops would be pretty boring. I started a thread about a common man hunting show a while back, but it died pretty quick.

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,192561.0.html

S.S. · « **Reply #35 on:** January 08, 2010, 05:14:55 PM »

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that little gal Tiffany sure looked
good in that teeny bikini top while bow hunting
jumping carp....

Cheesehead · « **Reply #36 on:** January 08, 2010, 05:23:55 PM »

Quote from: S.S. link=topic=194363.msg 1098991327#msg 1098991327 date=1263010495

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that little gal Tiffany sure looked
good in that teeny tiny bikini top while bow hunting
jumping carp....

Come on now!

What kind of an expert hunting purist are you?

Cheese

S.S. · « **Reply #37 on:** January 08, 2010, 05:35:19 PM »

Ain't hunting about getting the really big RACKS?

She may be ditsy but she sure is cute at it!

dpastordan · « **Reply #38 on:** January 11, 2010, 07:42:40 AM »

Back to the Trophy Quest show...I am disappointed. I saw him shoot an aligator with his .30-30 and that was it. All the other shows were about how his business was started, about pranks they pull on each other, and a bow hunting show. I am puzzled. I would like to have seen him take the challenging ones like mountain sheep or coues deer or mountain goats with a .30-30.

That said, a lot of hunting shows make me feel if I don't have all the gadgets, I am not hunting. And Jim Shockey? He criticized a couple of his hunters who showed up with what he considered inadequate cartridges. One had a short magnum and the other a .30-06. He pulls out a .416 Remington and says that is his minimum for big game like bears and moose. Not everyone can handle the bigger magnums. I'd rather have someone who can handle a .30-06 and knows how to shoot with me than someone who has a magnum and fears the recoil. A friend of mine caught the 7mm Magnum fever 20 years ago and wounded more deer than you can shake a stick at. He finally got rid of it and went back to his .243 (which he had killed 26 straight deer with one shot each).

Canuck Bob · « **Reply #39 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:39:04 PM »

I came back to shooting after many years absent. It is a real eye opener what has happened to hunting. When I hunted in the Canadian Rockies I carried a frame backpack, lightly loaded for a campfire tarp camp, and a rifle. Yes , I read way to much Whelen when I was a kid.

Now the local guys are all "Afghan snipers" who routinely kill Elk at 500 + yards, yeah right. They all drive quads, use laser range finders, walkie talkies, and night vision equipment and trail cameras. They pack in mobile kitchens for goodness sake that are as big as a small VW!

As far as the minimum large game cartridge goes the .303 British in Lee Enfield rifles shot out Canada, Africa, and India in less than 50 years. The .22 rimfire has killed a mountain of game in rural areas. The 30-30 in little lever carbines were the gun of choice with all the trappers and native hunters up north until today. You can buy 30-06, 303, 30-30 anywhere in the Canadian bush or arctic try that with a .416.

My favorite hunting rifle of all time is the .444 Marlin with a peep. Over the years I sold off all my big bore rifles but could never get rid of that lightening quick Moose gun. A real Canadian owns a Moose rifle after all. I bought a .54 Lyman Deerstalker flintlock to get shooting again, added a peep.

Lloyd Smale · « **Reply #40 on:** January 13, 2010, 01:32:11 AM »

thats another thing that p@@@@@ me off. HOt girls on hunting shows. If that aint fake. How many hotty high maintanace girls do you know that will hunt let alone touch a dead animals innards!!! Find some hot thing on the street pay here enough money and send here all over the world hunting and have people actually watch it!! Get real! GIve me a real hunter with a pair of plaid woolys really hunting instead of having a guide bring him to an animal to shoot. Someone who will gut there own animal and have a beer while hes doing it!

Quote from: S.S. on January 08, 2010, 05:14:55 PM

Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that little gal Tiffany sure looked
good in that teeny bikini top while bow hunting
jumping carp....

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #41 on:** January 13, 2010, 03:42:14 AM »

Our club has several very attractive ladies and girls hunting with us . I have hunted in Tenn. and Canada where very attractive girs hunted with us . As a side note I have fished on charter boats with attractive lady mates and on one trip had a very beautiful lady captain ( she really put us on alot of fish ).
We do joke with the women as all seem to wear makeup while hunting , as the score as much as the men if not more it must not hurt.
Now i got to ask why you think a good looking "hottie" girl has to be high maintance ? And if there are a few are they much different than those men hunters that have every new toy that Cabelas puts on the shelf , has to have the perfect shirt , hat etc. and won't hunt in the wet or cold ?
I can't think of a dumber thing to do than to keep women out of hunting .

crash87 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:03:55 AM »

When I have been successful in the field, especially when I have not been in my local area, and have had a picture taken, Quite honestly I am a mess. I've got the pictures to prove it. Then I look on the web, hunting magazines et.al. and am wondering if some of these GUYS have an entourage sitting in the wings? Not a hair out of place, Pants still pleated and CLEAN, not even any cow chit in the soles of the boots, this is, I've concluded, especially true of GUYS and their "record" book animals. Apparently it is not only the girls who are obsessed with their vanity. Nothing to do with the topic, but hey, after 2 pages it is bound to wonder. CRASH87

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #43 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:31:34 AM »

Check out the show Getting Wild with Cindy , She hunts and sweats and gets dirty .

mirage1988 · « **Reply #44 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:24:26 AM »

This little hottie out-fishes me most of the time

(not too high maint. either)

Skunk · « **Reply #45 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:40:47 AM »

Wow Mirage, that's a nice catch there. The fish are nice too.

mirage1988 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:53:43 AM »

Thanks Skunk-

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #47 on:** January 13, 2010, 07:59:12 AM »

you are a lucky man ! who cooks ?

Cheesehead · « **Reply #48 on:** January 13, 2010, 03:03:31 PM »

Quote from: Lloyd Smale on January 13, 2010, 01:32:11 AM

thats another thing that p@@@@@ me off. HOt girls on hunting shows. If that aint fake. How many hotty high maintanace girls do you know that will hunt let alone touch a dead animals innards!!! Find some hot thing on the street pay here enough money and send here all over the world hunting and have people actually watch it!! Get real! GIve me a real hunter with a pair of plaid woolys really hunting instead of having a guide bring him to an animal to shoot. Someone who will gut there own animal and have a beer while hes doing it!
Quote from: S.S. on January 08, 2010, 05:14:55 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but that little gal Tiffany sure looked
good in that teeny bikini top while bow hunting
jumping carp....

WOW!

It is just a TV show designed to entertain. No need to get your blood pressure up, for the wrong reason.

Cheese

1marty · « **Reply #49 on:** January 13, 2010, 03:46:51 PM »

I don't know if Cindy would enjoy my hunting camp since most of the guys sit around at night playing poker, drinking beer, belching and expelling gas.

mirage1988 · « **Reply #50 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:46:12 PM »

Quote from: 1marty on January 13, 2010, 03:46:51 PM

I don't know if Cindy would enjoy my hunting camp since most of the guys sit around at night playing poker, drinking beer, belching and expelling gas.

Thats funny!- most of you guys would be in your sleeping bags bitching about "the chick' gettin lucky.

bilmac · « **Reply #51 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:24:48 PM »

Huntin isn't a spectator sport

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #52 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:27:19 AM »

Maybe not for you but i have enjoyed watching both my sons hunting . I also have a cousin that can't move arms or legs and he enjoys alot of the hunting shows . He also has a blind built for him where he goes to watch deer . Often he will invite people to shoot from his blind so he can watch. He also has a custom jeep to do the same thing .
Often one has to look deeper than their own likes and dislikes to see the value in something !