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Dom.............you are right, you aren't missing much. So many of the hunts are staged and bear little resemblance to what actually happened........then you get the ones you described, where the shots taken don't add up to the end scene with the critter in hand (you just know there was a bunch left out).
There are lots of them done in fenced hunting situations and they are careful to edit the fence out and not bother telling anyone. One of the tyros with a popular show in the US did this at a Saskatchewan hunt farm for elk, bison and whitetail, as well as bear (it was fair chase). The show did not accurately depict what happened and was deliberately misleading.
I have been guiding when a few of the better known crews were in at several lodges and camps up here in Canada. I will not have anything to do with it any more..........just give me the regular hunters thanks. I will not take any film crews on my hunts.
There are some good outdoor film crews out there, but the cost to the outfitter is outrageous and only guys with huge big game allocations can afford to do it. On average the return for the outfitter is very short lived.
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