Reality TV worth watching!

[user 20224]

Watched about 5 min. and had to change the channel when they crossed the river. That was not swimming the horses that was trying to stay on a horse and push him under.
Sorry went in with a open mind but too much fail.

 

[Supercracker]

assuming the premise is the two old hands schooling the new guy, I think too much of it is staged. I'm still going to watch it though.

I don't buy the new guy not being able to get on his horse/mule. If he were that far out of shape and hadn't mastered that most basic of basic and rudimentary riding skill they would have told him to stay home a work on it.

I'm also not real big on the guy shooting at the duck with a rifle. Isn't that a crime? Maybe not the best thing to show on TV.

On a related note, what is that double the guy has? Is that one of the Indian guns?

 

[poordevil]

I must be overlooking it, but when and what time does it come on?

 

[Supercracker]

It was on Monday night.

In my area they had it mislabeled in the schedule. It appeared as "Hard Rider" which is a documentary about a rodeo cowboy.

 

[poordevil]

Well heck. Maybe I will catch it on the rebound. Thanks for the heads up SC

P

 

[Matt85]

if there is a something in this world that could truly eat at a persons mind and soul it would be reality tv.

this show will cheapen our hobby and make mountain men out to be fools. i would rather use lead to season my food then watch shows like this.

-matt

 

[poordevil]

Well you are still young and apparently wet behind the ears. Anything that makes a new person come to the world and hobby of shooting, be it flintlocks or AK'S is a good thing, IMO.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I remember a PBS *I think* show that was about homesteading in Montana.
Like a pig in a feed lot I had to sift through a lot of :bull: to find the good, but at the end it was telling to see that the wives could not wait to go back to the” Real world” and the men were crying at having to leave what they had built with their own two hands.

 

[nessmuk]

I watched 10 min. of one show and I won't be watching any more of them.

 

[Claude Mathis]

Not aimed at anyone, but...

"Reality TV - worth watching"

Oxymoron: a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.

:wink:

 

[pargent]

Yeeep

 

[GreyWhiskers]

Well now I wonder if it didn't get cancelled. They re-ran the 1st episode this week. I checked the TV schedule and it has disappeared. :hmm:

 

[Billnpatti]

Well, I watched it and I thought as a reality show, it had all the earmarks of the usual phony balony scripted manure. I was seriously disappointed in it. If it hadn't been ground out of one of the reality show machines, it could have been a good show. I just hope that if they do another show, they will cut out all of the phony dramatic "reality show" manure.....or get better script writers. Such a show could have been so much better if it had been actual reality instead of scripted "reality". Maybe they ought to let the folks at "Muzzleloader" magazine or "On The Trail" magazine produce it.

 

[Rod Lassey]

I also thought there was a little too much 'playing to the camera' going on, but I enjoyed it if for no other reason than there is so little [nonexistant?] muzzleloading/fur trade topics on TV. That, and I always like looking over other guys' gear and seeing how they do things, trying to learn something.

Now if Muzzleloader or On The Trail produced something? I'd surely tune in. As an aside, aparently a correspondent from Nat'l Geographic magazine attended the AMM western nationals last summer, and there may be an article forthcoming.

While we're at it, years ago Jeff Hengesbaugh and Wes Housler produced a couple of videos that discuss western fur trade gear and horse travel. They came out on VHS, and have been unavailable for years. Recently, however, they've been re-released on DVD, and are available through Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Dress-Equipa...d=1359643618&sr=8-1&keywords=hengesbaugh+jeff
http://www.amazon.com/Challenge-Tr...d=1359643618&sr=8-2&keywords=hengesbaugh+jeff

Strictly amateur, and they sound like they're talking from the bottom of a well, but entertaining and educational nonetheless. Helps me get my 'fix' of the fur trade every so often.

Rod

 

[smo]

Well now I wonder if it didn't get cancelled. They re-ran the 1st episode this week. I checked the TV schedule and it has disappeared. :hmm:

I thought it was going to be a series too,But it must have been only one show. It was OK, but could have been done better.I would like to see someone do a good series or movie using documented facts instead of something made up.

 

[Kentuckywindage]

most likely they are going to have a 2 week gap between the first episode like some of the gold rush shows do when they first air.

Survivorman did that for a bit and then came back on.

 

[smo]

Cool :thumbsup:

 

[SamTex1949]

That program was called the "Frontier House" available either on NetFlix or at Amazon. :stir:

 

[SamTex1949]

Doc Ivory (aka Scott Olsen)/quote]
I really appreciated his character, believe he is real deal, not as mouthy as the other guy.

 

[Yellowstone]

I was curious about what the muzzleloading crowd would think of this program, so I had to peruse the comments.
I have some knowledge of the country it was filmed in so I had to overlook the sligt of hand in film editing the geography. Other than that I viewed the show for entertainment only and general correctness of accoutrements. The mountaineers seemed to toe the line in that regard, although I have to wonder if the game wardens were watching that goofy display of flock shooting at ducks out of season. Hell yes he missed them, wouldn't you if Ranger Rick was lurking in the pines?

The trail ride appeared to start at Turpin Meadows, a major trailhead into the Two Ocean Divide and Thorougfare Country. That is northeast AWAY from Pierre's Hole. Looks like they did film at the Two Ocean Divide, but then essentially turned back around and headed west along the Pacific Creek to the Snake River. Oh yeah, they had to cross the highway between Jackson Lake Lodge and Flagg Ranch, or there abouts. The Snake River crossing was pure Hollywood, which is quite alright, but it doesn't take a even a Pilgrim to see that shallower riffles were present to guide a pack string. It wasn't necessary to plunge into the trout pool. The ride finished with a climb up and over Conant Pass with the view of Pierre'Hole, aka Driggs, Idaho in the distance.
It was a pretty good piece of editing for genral Nat Geo viewing. I don't know the mountaineers but at least the two AMM hivernauts have been in the back country before, and my guess is that they have both spent theri fair share of time along the Two Ocean Divide and Hawk's Rest R.S on the upper Yellowstone.
It is indeed a spectacular spot and THE most remote point in the lower 48.
Too bad if the greenhorn has finally made his right of passage and the show doesn't continue with the Rocky Mountain College of our favorit plump Pilgrim.