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03-02-2015, 07:57 PM
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I have to wonder how remote they really are. One overhead shot of the homestead there is a couple of cars behind the house with other junk. That last hunting epsode was horrid.
The show is like having crap on your fingers, you know it stinks but you can't help smelling them.
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03-02-2015, 08:47 PM
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calling the people from "alaskan bush people" morons. is an insult to people who are actually morons.
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LOL
Best quote I've read in a long time .......
Solid Gold !!!!
I watched that show twice now (maybe an episode and a half) and these are real life hill billies who are so painfully socially awkward it's unbelieveable that it could even be real.
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03-02-2015, 09:08 PM
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I have never seen the show that you guys are talking about, but I would be willing to bet my rifle that there are "hunters" like this in Alberta. Lots of them! While hunting near Rocky Mountain house last fall. My buddy and I had parked the truck in the middle of the road near a cut line(which was between my truck and the dead end of the lease road).
The intentions were to walk the cut line in search of a deer or two. Before we even made it to the cutline there were two other vehicles coming up the road, they both drove right around my truck. As this happened I told my buddy we are wasting our time, and turned to go back to the truck. We could tell these people were hunting. Not sure what they expected to get while they were driving their jacked up jeep with straight pipes down the cutline my buddy and I intended to walk. All I know is that if I go out that way next year, I will be getting much further away from town. Every time I try to hunt public land, I come across people like this! It was only a matter of time before one of them pulled a camera along with them!
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03-03-2015, 12:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Red Bullets
The "Life Below Zero" TV show on National Geographic channel is a little more realistic reality based. The gal that lives at a fuel outpost does her own hunting. She shot a nice caribou the last episode. One shot.
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I have trouble taking her seriously; she was missing everything by a mile with what appeared to be a .22 that needed to be sighted in. Kind of funny, but everything is life or death...
I enjoy those shows and go from  , to  , and  and  several times each Mountain Man or Yukon Men show. And those are the better ones!
I think they mostly make me feel better about myself and bush craft ability by giving me some characters to ridicule! 
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03-03-2015, 01:18 AM
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I will be the first to admit how stupid and dramatized these shows are. Mountain Men, Alaska The Last Frontier, Life Below Zero, Edge Of Alaska, etc. etc..
But, as dramatized as they are it is nice to see them on mainstream TV that actually show people shooting rifles/handguns, killing predators, hunting, fishing, butchering farm raised animals to fill their freezers. I actually applaud Discovery and History channels for showing these programs. The way the world is today and the way most city raised folk think and act, I am actually amazed that they do air these shows.
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03-03-2015, 09:05 AM
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But, as dramatized as they are it is nice to see them on mainstream TV that actually show people shooting rifles/handguns, killing predators, hunting, fishing, butchering farm raised animals to fill their freezers. I actually applaud Discovery and History channels for showing these programs. The way the world is today and the way most city raised folk think and act, I am actually amazed that they do air these shows.
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I often wonder if these networks are airing these shows to make hunters, trappers, fisherman, gun owners to look like idiots intentionally in order to sway the general publics opinion against these activities.
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03-03-2015, 10:27 AM
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Frontier? Not too sure how remote it is... The nearest MacDonad's is half the distance that I drive to work... 
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03-04-2015, 08:35 AM
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Bet her gun is an old Remington model 700 I have one and gun will fire when you click safety off
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03-05-2015, 02:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Bushrat
I often wonder if these networks are airing these shows to make hunters, trappers, fisherman, gun owners to look like idiots intentionally in order to sway the general publics opinion against these activities.
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Do you think Wild TV makes us hunters and outdoorsmen/women look any better? Lots of idiots on there as well...
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03-05-2015, 07:14 AM
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Do you think Wild TV makes us hunters and outdoorsmen/women look any better? Lots of idiots on there as well...
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Didn't I say hunting in my statement. I fully believe the majority of hunting shows make hunters look bad to the general public. Yes absolutely many/most of Wild TV shows included.
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03-05-2015, 07:24 AM
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LOL
Best quote I've read in a long time .......
Solid Gold !!!!
I watched that show twice now (maybe an episode and a half) and these are real life hill billies who are so painfully socially awkward it's unbelieveable that it could even be real.
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i can't take credit for that one,,,,,,,,,,but it is fitting.
the "reality" shows on nat geo,history, and the the discovery channel. that show trapping. have been the worst thing that has happened to the fur industry in recent times.
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03-05-2015, 02:14 PM
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Huh
Wow, lots of critics here. I think Alaska the last fronteir and the Kilchers(?) is a real fine show. Beautiful country, wholesome people who have carved out an existance in a tough place. While you all watch it on your 50" plasma and comfy couches, they're living it. Weird a group of outdoors folks would critcize this. Is their shooting great? Nah, as good I suspect as anyone using guns as tools, like homesteaders here in Alberta.
Watch the show, any show, as a critic and you'll find what your looking for.
These shows have brought real life, killing for your food and the respect that needs to accompany that to the lost folks of City life.
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03-05-2015, 02:42 PM
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Otto
Read about Otto net worth over 6 million his older brothers daughter is Jewel money is no object so it's kinda their own show
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Are you sure?? I thought it was a 30/06?? Shooting prone with a new larger caliber rifle...... I knew that one wasnt gonna end well. Im surprised she didnt get split open
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She had enough cushion in her cheek...hey oh!
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03-07-2015, 05:22 PM
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Bet her gun is an old Remington model 700 I have one and gun will fire when you click safety off
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That's covered under warranty.
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