Say it ain't so Ted

[skeet]

Ya know..I was out in Montana a few years ago lookin for a place to move to. Real estate guy took me out to a small ranch..drivin around an here came the turkeys. He said look at that.. Those turkeys must be crazy.. Heck I know about baited critters..an those things were a good addition to his stacked deck..Needless to say..I didn't buy the place..and it was just about the place I had in mind..Just didn't like that kind of salesmanship.. Come to think of it..I have dealt with about 6 real estate agents who were lets say..a bit underhanded. The one who sold my farm in Md and the one who bought it were in cahoots.. I guess ol Teddy was too smart to see the game wardens figuring out his scam too. Kinda hate those hunting shows and videos. Just too apparent that somethin is..just not right. Heck I knew a guide back east who had the geese so conditioned they came to the field as soon as they heard him slam the tailgate on his truck. By the time the game wardens got there in the morning..the bait was GONE

[Rapier]

Come on guys, you mean that you never thought something was amiss in these filmed shows?

Do you remember the old American Sportsman series, the grandaddy of them all? Well, when they came to NH to film a deer hunt, the F&G Dept folks themselves took them to an island (island hunting is illegal) put them in a stand, hearded the deer to them, through fenced funnels, and the movie was made. That came direct from the F&G guys that were ordered to do the deed. They were ordered to do so by higher political authority, trying to make the state look like it was over-run by Bambi's daddy. Oh, they also used full mounted critters in segments according to the F&G guys.

This has been the SOP for years, actually decades. Those film crews go to the field with a PU load of equipment plus other folks, how else do you think a critter would get within a hundred miles of them? Watch close and you will still see a mounted deer now and then peeking around a tree in filmed segments of shows.

Today the only shows I watch are the shows about wing shooting in places I know have so many critters that a whole film crew could setup and it would not matter at all, like Argentina.

You just have no idea about RE folks. You need to live in FL, the world capitol of honest RE dealings. The only profession rated lower than a used car salesman in reputation within the state!
Ed