Mud, sweat, and beards...

[Tundra Tiger]

I was flipping channels last night, wallowing out an illness, and came across Mud, Sweat, and Beards on USA. Anyone catch it? Apparently there's four total episodes. Last night was the first. It will be my last. What first caught my eye was it was set in interior Alaska. As an Alaska, I paused on it to see what they offered.

At the risk of appearing overly critical, three things lost me. The first was when they went in search of game to eat, and the one guy said they need anything, be it marmot, ground squirrel, raccoon, porcupine... Raccoon??? Seriously? The second was when they found and killed a porcupine... and then tied its carcass to an 8' pole and carried it to camp in tandem. It looked freaking ridiculous. And the last thing was when the one fellow claimed he's a hunter but denigrated guys that stand 200 yards away and kill with a rifle.

Maybe I am just cranky today, coming off illness. Maybe I am Joe Pesche, because I'm not myself when I'm hungry. Feel free to hand me a Snickers and set me straight.

 

[John Wasmuth]

Lots of people eat raccoon.

 

[WyoBull]

Too many reality shows are not even close to reality. Carrying a porcupine on a game pole, really? Who does that s#*t?

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I do not dispute that at all John. But... there are none in Alaska was my point... you'd think that hardcore survivalists would kinda know that before deciding to live off the land for ten days here.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Too many reality shows are not even close to reality. Carrying a porcupine on a game pole, really? Who does that s#*t?

They should have had a game cart! Ha! Ha! Ha!

 

[BnC 04]

I gave up watching "made for tv" hunting shows years ago. Just nothing i personally hold interest in.

 

[John Wasmuth]

I do not dispute that at all John. But... there are none in Alaska was my point... you'd think that hardcore survivalists would kinda know that before deciding to live off the land for ten days here.

That would make it extremely difficult to bag a raccoon where no raccoon lives….

 

[CoElkHunter]

I gave up watching "made for tv" hunting shows years ago. Just nothing i personally hold interest in.

+1.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I am not a heavy viewer of reality/made for TV shows... Like I said, last night I was channel surfing while waiting for the nighttime meds to kick in.

AK shows always seem to be the rage; for my money the ONLY one that comes close to reality is The Last Alaskans. I've not seen anything on that one I would dispute as far as how it portrays rural life here.

On the subject of shows - while also channel surfing last night - I saw on I thought decent. It was called Nordic Wild Hunter.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

@CoElkHunter ... I choked on a beverage reading that game cart comment.

 

[hseII]

Lots of people eat raccoon.

It wouldn’t be my first choice but it beats rocks.

Sometimes we do stuff just to say we did on Thanksgiving while in Texas with a Louisiana crew: again just to say we did.

I’ve eat worse but I don’t want to talk about that.

 

[hseII]

I gave up watching "made for tv" hunting shows years ago. Just nothing i personally hold interest in.

That Meat Eater is decent.
I’ve learned of new places I want to try.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Farming The Wild is an excellent show

 

[John Wasmuth]

I’ve pretty much given up on most hunting shows which are really 30 minute infomercials. I like watching “This is Africa” and “Africa sportsman’s show” on YouTube. A lot more entertaining

 

[Daktari]

Farming the Wild and Wildfed are great! Meateater is best.