Outdoor TV on the Web
If you’re like me, you have an ongoing love/hate relationship with hunting videos and television shows. I mean, on the one hand, it’s a great escape and an opportunity to hunt vicariously with the various hunting personalities. You get to see a lot of great game, and some beautiful parts of the country and the world. You can also occasionally learn a little something from time to time.
On the other hand, you have to put up with an awful lot of sales pitches, overhyped gadgets, and some really bad choices made by these professional “hunters”. I also think these shows can really mislead a lot of people about just how hard hunting can be, at the same time as they drive the whole trophy craze. They could sure use a little more reality from time to time, but of course nobody would watch if they didn’t kill something on a regular basis. I would like to see them get skunked occasionally though.
Anyway, the whole point is that I haven’t had a lot of time lately to watch the shows, as I’ve been a little too busy doing my own hunting. But since this past weekend, I’m done hunting for a few weeks. I decided to cruise over to MyOutdoorTV.com and see what kind of hog hunting shows they had to offer, so I can satisfy my hunting jones during the coming weeks of downtime.
When I reviewed MyOutdoorTV last year, they had some good content and a great idea. Well, let me tell you, they’ve made it even better! There’s more shows there now than ever before, and if I had a key complaint it’s only that there’s a lot more than I can sit and weed through. Fortunately, there’s a simple search feature that let me type in “Boar” and get a listing of shows primarily about hog hunting… well, all eight of them, anyway.
I’ll finish those up pretty quick, so I guess then I’ll start daydreaming about elk hunting again.
Anyway, it’s good stuff getting better. Check it out if you’re interested… and especially if you’ve got a good computer and monitor.
I love that website Phillip just simply because it lets you search and click through shows to get to the ones you want to watch.
I do think some more realism in the hunting shows would go a long ways to help make them more watchable.
If you get a chance check out Easton’s bowhunting TV. Fred Eichler on that show is awesome and very down to earth. I don’t think I’ve saw him on a hog hunt yet though. Sorry!
June 16th, 2008 at 4:35 am
I love myoutdoortv.com – but I haven’t checked it out in a long while – guess where I’m headed, right now!
June 17th, 2008 at 11:39 am