Traditional ML on the Tube?

[SimonKenton]

One thing you'll notice is that on the Tube they have had exactly ONE show in about ten years that even touched on traditional black powder guns. That one even showed Tip Curtis at work and at a rondy with his display. How did the inline mafia let THAT one by?

Anyway, if the big money manufacturers can bankroll what are basically infomercials on the outdoor channels why can't the Longhunter Society and NMLR get together with Green Mountain and the various makers of quality B-P kits and parts and have a show on maybe once a month most of the year and maybe twice a month (or weekly God willing) in the month leading up to muzzleloader season?

-Ray

 

[cowpoke1955]

Simon, we feel your pain. But put your mind at ease. Those guys with that other type of weapon can sit back and have their little hunting show. Us with the traditional type will go out and live it :thumbsup: !

 

[SimonKenton]

It really frosts me that less than 15 years ago we saw on Outdoor Life's TV show a real rondy AND segments on Buckskin Bill or whatever he called himself and even a whole bunch of guys with custom flinters including Hershel House shooting in the Smokies!! That show made me tape it and watch it about 20 times. Until then I only shot percussion. Then I saw flint guns that fired so fast I could hardly tell the diff from my CVA Big Bore!!!! Wow! Up to that point I'd been told that flinters ALL took forever to go off and if you watch enough entertainment all you see is whoosh hiss boom shots. Even "Killdeer" didn't fire right as far as I'm concerned. If they'd let Hershel tune her up and then tape the shot you'd think it had an electric ignition or something. :shocked2:

-Ray

 

[renovato]

Feel lucky, I haven't even seen one! I wish our sport was better represented. I've always wondered if all the buckskin and traditional accoutrements take us too far from "mainstream" to appeal to the average viewer. I'd sure like to see something to help kindle an interest in traditional style guns.

 

[SimonKenton]

The show I just saw was on Guns and Ammo TV. They showed a few guys in NH hunting with flinters and some in tradgear and some semi-modern. One hunter pointed out the almost impassible third growth and underbrush. He commented that he gets all this guff from western hunters about their long range shooting with .300 magnums and says "I'd like to see them TRY a shot past 50-75 yards in this stuff." Their centerfires are almost usless up there in the White Mountains. The cheatlines don't even have an advantage at the ranges these guys have to hunt. THAT'S what I want to see more off. More public land or at least farmland hunting in unglamorous parts of the Midwest and New England. :hmm:

-Ray

 

[pab1]

I don't recall seeing any traditional hunts on TV. It was nice to see Will Primos use a flintlock to take a bull on Primos' "The Truth 6: Big Bulls" video. He also sang the theme song from Jeremiah Johnson after the hunt.