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. To quote The Federalist again must mean you are drinking again.

They are far from a legit source. Closer to The Onion

Take that Jon Tester doll out of your pussy.

LOL

Meanwhile the normal gut level human reaction to getting a deer (or whatever) by someone yet unencumbered by public school educations and political correctness.

. Drunk again I see, any more domestic changes?

Your mom won’t leave.

LOL

That's great!

That’s a kid that watches way too many schitty hunting shows.

lol.. true.

No worse, no better than most of the crap on TV.

Amen. Matzinger is without peer in the douche bag category.

I like watching him although like stated above, his style has changed more towards the spiritual side.

I originally liked his show for the new ideas on cooking wild game he shared. Have added some recipes to our kitchen, and some I would not touch!

As far as my hunting mindset, I am somewhere in between, uncouth rednecks to the hippie side. I love to hunt, it is who I am and enjoy the whole process, but am pragmatic in the fact, that in the end it is just meat and bone.

I get great satisfaction out of doing it right from field to table.

There’s hunting for a TV, hunting for yourself, and hunting for Instagram pics.

I personally hold all of God's creation in reverence. I feel a bit of remorse every time I take an animals life, but I do enjoy the participation of the natural world and the table fare.
I respect the animals and although I have taken hundreds, possibly thousands, I don't feel their existence or lives are meaningless.
It is a serious matter ending their life. They don't want to die any more than you do. It is all part of the predator/prey relationship in the natural world IMO... and hunting is as much a natural part of me as eating and drinking.

I have zero problems with the spiritual stuff. Who am I to judge what they believe in spiritually? I don't care for the show that much. I've tried to like it. I think it's the formatting and the production more than the content. The 4-5 shows I've seen seemed like they were all over the place as far as staying on track of the hunt.

I don't agree with everything that Rinella does or believes in but I do think that he is a great ambassador for hunters. His book American Buffalo is damn good.

I have said many times that I'd love to be able to shoot a deer, bobcat, or a turkey with a tranquilizer gun, take a picture, then watch them wake up and run off. I often have a little feeling of remorse after shooting one. However, I have no remorse whatsoever about killing a coyote, coon, squirrel, possum, English Sparrow, and a few other ones that I had better not mention.

I have never even heard of this guy. That said, I have no issue with anyone giving thanks. I do so on a daily basis. I also do so after a hunt, succeful or not.

Meateater is one of the few hunting shows I actually like. You generally get a no-nonsense view of his hunts, and I like the cooking part as well. The "spiritually honoring" part I can do without but whatever. I know when I go into the field hunting I fully intend to unapologetically kill something.

Most hunting shows are a disaster.......Pigman, Wadell and Co, mosts of the "good ol' Southern boys", Buck Commander, and the Midwesterner's who sit in tree stands over green fields telling us how hard they've been hunting are mostly unwatchable. Like Shockey or not, his shows are amazing. I would bet most of the TV hunter personalities would starve to death if put in an unfamiliar environment and told to have at it. They'd be clueless as to where to start.

I enjoy watching Meateater. It focuses on the entire outdoor experience of hunting and puts more emphasis on the food that animals provide rather than the trophy aspect of it all. It's been a welcome change compared to what most if not all of the other hunting shows have turned in to. I commend Steve for being successful at it in that way.

I'm somewhere in between as I don't have to get spiritual over a kill but I can't stand the goal post type display of many shows.

I seldom kill a large animal any more as I don't need much meat but when i do take one, reality tells me that everyone can't do this
as Mother Nature has limitations.

I've hunted with tv personalities and they are changing as they realize their newer viewers want assurance that those animals are
being utilized.

Rinella's show is a fair attempt at realistic hunt. As far as his bison book goes,,,,,,,it sucks.