In the last few years I have been watching some popular hunting shows on TV. They amaze me with their push for food plots, high content mineral blocks and feed. It seems that everyone in the so called Pro hunting industry is more interested in growing big deer than they are actually hunting them it seems to me that they would rather plant a food plot and throughout mineral and feed and then set their stand up on these areas where’s the challenge and are they really shooting true trophies or are they just shooting deer they have grown to there own expatiations

It seems to me there are many so-called Pro hunters out there that forgot how to truly hunt wild game. Let’s just think about this. If I go out and buy 20 acres of land and right in the middle of it put out one of these high dollar food plots and maybe put some high protein foods and minerals and set up my stand over the site; would I consider this real hunting? I don’t think so! Where is the art of scouting, looking for sign from the previous season, such as rubs and scrapes and those ever so mysterious buck trails?

By the way I don’t think there are any Pro hunters out there. Every show I watch all they talk about is trail camera and food plots. Very few shows on TV actually do talk about hunting. They are to busy pushing product or how big the rack is. Products are a great asset to hunters and big bone is exciting to the hunter but if that is your main reason for being out there your not a pro hunter at all. It seems all everybody is interested in is rack size sure there are a few that talk about doe management but most so called pros are interested in the size of that rack and nothing more.

Which brings us back to the question True trophies or grown trophies? If you look in the Boone and Crocket or Pope and Young books you will see a big difference in record book trophies in the last fifteen years. And lets be honest with ourselves its due to basically growing deer with these food plots and high mineral blocks and food. Thats why a lot of the public land does not hold these giant bucks the’re not getting grown. Their actually on what nature has given them and when you see a giant on a piece of land like this he is a true trophy not a home grown food plot high mineral eating machine .

You also might have noticed on a lot of these so called Pro hunting shows a lot of their hunts are staged. You know what I mean, their out hunting and they act like they are stalking and in the camera shot the camera man is in front of them filming them coming toward him. Obviously you can not stalk with a camera man in front of you but the next thing you know they have a big animal in front of them and you guessed it he made the shot.

A prime example of stunts like this is from a friend of mine that called last week he was watching two so called Pro hunters hunting on a farmers land helping him get rid of some hogs that were tearing up his land and watching closely my buddy noticed some familiar land marks while watching these guys hunt these hogs on this farmers land they were actually hunting on a hog hunting ranch my buddy had been hunting on for the past two years thats right a 100 acre fenced in area with hogs everywhere and while he watching these two they were acting like they were on this farmers land on old tractor trails and log roads really doing some intense stalking this is really great for are sport when these so called Pro’s pull stunts like this,if you want to hunt hogs on a hog ranch thats great because thats where they belong inside a fence not out tearing up land but don’t lie about it.

Just something to think about maybe try hunting like is was meant to be not hunting over food plots and minerals but actually going out with family and do some good scouting in the off season and putting the puzzle tegether of deer trails and sign for the up coming season seeing where you could hang a stand or a place where you can put on that stalk this upcoming season.