Bass Pro Shops has hit the air waves this year with a new format for their hunting show on the Versus Network.  They have gone to 100% Real Hunting!!!! What you see is what you get. There will be no reinactments!!!! You will have one camera focused on the hunter and one camera focused on the animal to give you a real time encounter!!!! 

I was fortunate enough to be in on the ground floor of this concept! Personally I like running the camera that follows the animal. That way I know what’s going on and I get to see all the action. The person that runs the camera that films the hunter is basically in the “dark”. Yes he can see the hunter, but he has no idea how close the animal is and he doesn’t get to see all the action!

Now we are adding another factor into hunting. Yes a hunter and a camera man have to be good to harvest a wild animal, but now we are throwing a third person and sometimes a fourth person in the mix if there is a guide with us. But it’s all in the name of bringing you guys a quality TV show that you will enjoy!!! Check out the show and let me know how you guys like it!!!!

Here’s a link to watch the commercial for the new format!!!

http://www.versus.com/nw/article/mdview/?tf=TonightOnVersus_show.tpl&Limit=1&mt=3&f1=UserDef3&UserDef=true&d1=REAL%20HUNTING

When I’m home between hunting trips I don’t usually go hunting unless it’s with my son. I was stopped Christmas Eve by a friend and he wanted me to take his grandson hunting. The grandfather is not a hunter and he has been getting folks to take the young man hunting. So far he has not been successful in getting a deer.

I took Everett, age 13, hunting the Friday after Christmas. At 5:00 we had two deer come out and decided to take the larger of the two. Everett made a great shot and the tracking wasn’t far, but we did have to go into the swamp to get him out. Boy was he excited when we found that deer and it made me proud to share that hunt with him.

He made me a Thank You card a few days later and I keep it on my work desk. This is one of those hunting moments I don’t think I will never forget. Congrats on your 1st deer Everett!!!!! I hope we can do it again soon!!!!