That long post was very nice and well thought out and I agreed with it until you got to Keith Warren at the end. I heard about, but did not see his show last weekend. It was a public access archery hunt for pronghorns in Wyoming. They got several of them. He does all kinds of hunts, including public access hunts. He seldom does them on his own as he is surrounded with cameras on some of them.
I went on a group hunt out of his forum and met him. He did everything on his own, basically, at that hunt. He did the camera work, he interviewed other hunters at the ranch, he hunted on his own, just like everyone else. He shot 3 hogs our of the 5 shot, I think, it was a south Texas hog hunt and he did it with a gun. The day before at a different ranch, he shot a big mouflon. The hog hunt is supposed to be a show next spring I think. He goes with outfitters on a lot of hunts and fishing trips, but it takes lots of work still, to make a show.
I heard they just did 40 hours of camera work for a 1/2 hour show.
I don't think he makes any excuses in his response. He regrets that everyone can not be happy about everything and that he can't make it that way, but he still wanted to provide a response, because of all the negative speculation. He said in his response, the only legal way to hunt an elk by a non-resident there in Sask. is in an inclosure. He said the elk could hide and could escape. He said it was not like what Donahue describes, where he chose to hunt. As has been pointed out, going to hunt there, that would be one of the first things you find out, if you didn't already know it, you hunt elk in an enclosure, if you're a non Canadian resident.
I'm dissappointed people are so quick to jump on a celebrity, but I guess it comes with the exposure to some extent and is part of human nature for some reason.
I'd like to see you sweet potatoe and beets guys try to walk around on some south Texas pastures. They cut senderos, they put out feeders, because you need a machete to go through the cactus and brush. I know a fellow who sat in his blind for 18 days last year to get a 150 class buck down there. Its hunting, in my opinion.
The TV shows, or the high dollar ranches, might not take that long, but its the same in hunts up north too. I saw one show where the outfitter glassed mountain goats from camp down in the valley. The next view, he and the hunter were calmly walking up the mountain to shoot the goat. Next scene, the hunter shoots the goat. Hunt over, piece of cake on TV or with a low pressure outfitter area, where the outfitter does most of the work. Its hunting too though.
They don't put whether it was easy or hard in the record book. People that want credit for hard hunts need to make up a point system that takes that into consideration. I've heard of a guy shooting a B&C bear out of a fruit tree in someone's back yard. I know, in the 70s, people could be flown into some animals in Alaska, step out and shoot them, then fly back. Someone else could be paid to bring the animal back if they wanted to do it that way back then. In the 80s is when they made the law in Alaska, you can't shoot the day you land.
