MeatEater Rough Cuts

[LousyResident]

Have y'all seen any of these on YouTube? In two of them that I've seen so far (both with bows, Texas pigs with Cam Hanes and some whitetail decoy one) Steve goes walking up on, and handles, animals that obviously aren't dead yet. With the buck he's holding the antlers admiring the deer while it's still got a couple last gasps/twitches left. Same with the first pig they shoot.

I understand it happens sometimes, but why on earth film it and put it on YouTube?

 

[Flatbrimmer]

The people that hunt watch it and relate to it, the people that don’t hunt watch it and cringe. No matter how tastefully a dead/dying animal may be appoached.

I know I wouldn’t enjoy half the things i enjoy if they were made safer, more inclusive, less edgy etc.

just appealing to the audience it was designed for.

 

[SaskHunter]

just appealing to the audience it was designed for.

While hurting the same audience it was designed for.

 

[Flatbrimmer]

While hurting the same audience it was designed for.

I think the only fair argument on that stance would be to eradicate all the hunting shows altogether right? So nonhunters don’t see it at all?

 

[Rainer]

Ya, it's a bad representation for sure. Also a f***'in piss poor shot. He spined the buck

 

[Forkyfinder]

No one on the internets ever missed or had a bad shot.

 

[SaskHunter]

I think the only fair argument on that stance would be to eradicate all the hunting shows altogether right? So nonhunters don’t see it at all?

Purposefuly showing "the bad" isn't helping hunters at all. It's Okay to be honest about it, but plastering it all over the internet directly hurts hunters.

Best example of this is trapping with leg holds. We all know what happens butwe don't need to post cold, wet, hurt and terrified animals all over Instagram, though.

Being the "face of hunting" comes with responsibilities and those who purposefully show the "bad" are either oblivious or careless about the negative impacts they on everyone else's hunting.

I've walked up to many animals taking their last gasps/breaths. The right and respectful thing to do is to leave them be, not manhandle them for TV and clout.

 

[LuketheDog]

Have y'all seen any of these on YouTube? In two of them that I've seen so far (both with bows, Texas pigs with Cam Hanes and some whitetail decoy one) Steve goes walking up on, and handles, animals that obviously aren't dead yet. With the buck he's holding the antlers admiring the deer while it's still got a couple last gasps/twitches left. Same with the first pig they shoot.

I understand it happens sometimes, but why on earth film it and put it on YouTube?

Haven't watched the show. I think guys who hunt with rifles are usually so far away they don't see that part because it takes a bit to walk over to the dying animal. The bull I killed with my bow seemed like it twitched forever as I stood there 20yds away, it was hard to watch, but even so I'd rather see the real world on TV than a whitewashed one...

 

[Nick87]

eradicate all the hunting shows altogether right?

Yes, please. Yesterday.

 

[LousyResident]

There's a big difference between showing some dying kicks from a distance and showing a hunter callously handling a mortally wounded but not yet dead animal.

 

[sierrahunter]

Completely agree. I don’t like it when I spine an animal, and my first priority is to end the suffering with a head shot. I don’t grab the antlers of a dying animal that’s in shock and don’t need to see it on TV, that’s for sure.

 

[reallyoldman]

Have y'all seen any of these on YouTube? In two of them that I've seen so far (both with bows, Texas pigs with Cam Hanes and some whitetail decoy one) Steve goes walking up on, and handles, animals that obviously aren't dead yet. With the buck he's holding the antlers admiring the deer while it's still got a couple last gasps/twitches left. Same with the first pig they shoot.

I understand it happens sometimes, but why on earth film it and put it on YouTube?

I like Steve but he has made some real poor videos. He has shown several archery/muzzle loader elk hunts where the animal wasn't recovered or not until the next day......he should stick to rifle hunting only..Bet those animals were "really good tasting-meat eaters ".

 

[Pahoundsman]

I like Steve but he has made some real poor videos. He has shown several archery/muzzle loader elk hunts where the animal wasn't recovered or not until the next day......he should stick to rifle hunting only..Bet those animals were "really good tasting-meat eaters ".

I’d bet a lot of that meat was dumped

 

[Nick87]

I’d bet a lot of that meat was dumped

No way bruh...deer face tacos.

 

[Ben Long]

I went back and watched the Texas whitetail shot. The buck looks pretty dead when they lift the head. I've seen deer and bear that are dead-dead give up a grunt when you move them as air moves through the larynx. But I also have to agree that arrow is pretty gory and unnecessary. Yes, the audience is hunters who are de-sensitized but non-hunters will see it and other hunters will emulate it. I have questions. I like to think that if I were in that situation, I would have shot again. Steve would have been wise to get another arrow on the string ASAP. That's what I tell my hunter ed students -- bow or rifle, send another round if there is any question. When I don't follow my own advice, I tend to regret it.