Spot Report post Posted January 7, 2011 I've been a serial "Lurker" here for years and have told myself this is the year I become more active, so here it goes. I just watched "Wild and Raw" on the Outdoor Channel for the first time, and was a bit surprised at what was a blatant unethical and illegal hunting practice being portrayed. It's not the first time that I've seen this type of "Hunting" on a tv show and am curious on how others feel about it. Here's what happened: The host's wife is shown hunting Mule Deer in South Dakota, and they locate a herd with a decent buck in it. They show her in the prone position and her husband giving her a range of 360+ yards, she shoots and clearly misses. They then show her picking up her rifle and running towards the truck so they can obviously drive to another spot to attempt to gain an advantage and get another shot at the deer. They obviously were successful in getting to a better location because she ended up killing the buck. So I went to the South Dakota Game and Fish webpage and looked up the 2010 regs and sure enough I find in the regs the following: "No one may use a motor vehicle to chase, harass, intercept, pursue or disturb big game" just like we have here in Arizona. My opinion is that the editors of these shows certainly aren't doing hunting any great service by showing this type of behavior. More importantly it certainly doesn't qualify as "Fair Chase". Any thoughts? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DUG Report post Posted January 7, 2011 Most hunting shows don't seem to be "fairchase" to me. Sitting in a blind by a feeder isn't my definition of how I want to take an animal. As far as Wild and Raw goes it can be funny, but some of their "practices" seem to border on illegal and unethical and unsafe. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
