Why don't we go back and see how the Drury's started. They didn't wake up one day and say lets have a successful hunting business. It was built with risk, blood, sweat, tears, money and work most are not willing to do. If the Drury's are the worst example of guys promoting the outdoors, helping kids, vets, etc. I will watch them everyday.
In general, anyone who starts a successful business through hard work- PROPS. In general, having giant bucks on your land and managing it right & creating the habitat- that's awesome- PROPS! Having huge deer and managing a place right is RARE and very difficult. Having thousands of acres makes it a lot easier & I'd love to have that kind of ground. Being able to afford thousands of acres is no easy accomplishment either. Given the means and opportunity- I'd DREAM and LOVE owning several thousand acres or a few thousand with my buddy neighboring me. Though it's not in the same universe as the average hunter, it's amazing what can be done with that kind of ground. The rest of stuff about those guys- I just don't know, I haven't watched a video in a long time & I'm sure folks have +/-'s for a variety of reasons. Obviously, if you don't like em, don't watch the videos.
And yes, I don't want to video at all. My friends do it and love it- GOOD FOR THEM!!! It's just a personal choice for me, there's no way I want to do it. I'm NOT knocking folks who do. Like I said, it's just a personal choice for me.
Whatever they do, I suppose it doesn't impact me. The only part I don't like is, IN GENERAL, the Governor tags really bug me (which is a major part of that industry).... It's making my buddies & any average guy from out of state have to wait 3+ years now because of all the PROMOTION of the state- when they used to be able to draw at least once every other year. The Governor tags in general are killing the average NR with the un-needed promotion while the elites benefit. I'd say that's the only thing that really bugs me.
The rest is regular free-market choices we can make and stories of what can be accomplished in some situations & personal choices we make for ourselves.
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loneranger
Well-Known Member
Turning,"Hunting", into mass entertainment, and Big business, has affected the average joe, hunter in many ways, some good,,some bad. I am just glad I started hunting back when I did. Who knows what the future will become?
Rathburn Flat Bottom
Crazed Hunter
For me, my opinion on why I don't like the guys: They are corney, cheesy, self important guys who think more of themselves than I can believe & just want to be hunting celebrities. I can't stand Terry's crafty words, all the over-emotion and how they just think the hunting world is them. Like their reality show with all them on stage or Terry doing his race car video with the camera following him around with his eye surgery, etc. That's just my opinion and yes, the answer is: don't buy their videos then- I agree, which is why I won't. Mark having his thousands of acres with Lindsay next to it- tying up thousands of acres and then preaching to me and you on how to hunt- like they are the "every day hunter" in an every day situation- what a joke. They "know it all" because those guys can shoot giant deer on 3,000 acre block of management- OK, whatever. That's great they own thousands of acres and removed dozens of other hunters from it BUT they are far from an average hunter. And yes, it's hard to shoot giant deer anywhere. They just don't represent me or the average hunter IMO. Does it rub me wrong that Mark lives near my buddy in the St. Louis area but skates the law & the DNR looks the other way because they have the buddy-system going? Sure, I don't think that's right.
I had some buddies who used to hunt with them and video with them and quit because it was just a "kiss Mark and Terry's rear end party" and it drove them insane, everyone got off on kissing butt and it was the silliest and gag-worthy love fest anyone could take- why so many guys quit (which is my buddy's OPINION and untold story).
And yes, the Governor tags are an elitist bunch of BS that screws the everyday NR while the politicians do favors for their buddies. It's a bunch of crap. You can argue for these til the cows come home but that Governor tag stuff creates a ton of publicity which we don't need and it's a bunch of crap that kills NR opportunity. these guys and their Governor tags- what a joke.
You want to buy their videos, be my guest, go for it and enjoy. I simply won't and I can have an opinion and express it about these guys like anyone can. They are elitist, nerd-hunters who don't do much good for this state or anyone else. Probably why so many guys don't like them- think about it, you hear all sorts of folks with distaste for these guys but you don't hear that about folks like Winke for example. Think that's coincidence?
Different strokes for different folks but I'm done gagging from watching their videos.
I had some buddies who used to hunt with them and video with them and quit because it was just a "kiss Mark and Terry's rear end party" and it drove them insane, everyone got off on kissing butt and it was the silliest and gag-worthy love fest anyone could take- why so many guys quit (which is my buddy's OPINION and untold story).
And yes, the Governor tags are an elitist bunch of BS that screws the everyday NR while the politicians do favors for their buddies. It's a bunch of crap. You can argue for these til the cows come home but that Governor tag stuff creates a ton of publicity which we don't need and it's a bunch of crap that kills NR opportunity. these guys and their Governor tags- what a joke.
You want to buy their videos, be my guest, go for it and enjoy. I simply won't and I can have an opinion and express it about these guys like anyone can. They are elitist, nerd-hunters who don't do much good for this state or anyone else. Probably why so many guys don't like them- think about it, you hear all sorts of folks with distaste for these guys but you don't hear that about folks like Winke for example. Think that's coincidence?
Different strokes for different folks but I'm done gagging from watching their videos.
Sadly the trend from this IMO is that we see many more "Bone Collectors" and "Dream Season" chasers than we see people who support conservation groups and fight for the things that will impact an outdoorsmans future.
hotshott2289
Active Member
I think its funny that every tv "celeb" hunter is an awful person who is just out there for themselves and to gain personal fame.. when the reality is that these people do a lot of good for our sport.. yes there are a few bad apples in the tv world but there are more rotten "average" joes. To each his own though.. If I was told I could hunt every day of the year but it had to be videoed (so I could be ripped on and showed what a selfish hunter I am by the hunting community ) id be all over it because to me that would be a dream job. If it could even be called a job.