Why don't hunting shows...

[Vermont]

Why don't hunting shows ever show the field dressing of the animals?

It is a big part of hunting and if everything you knew about hunting came from TV shows you would think that after you shot an animal it just magically preserved and mounted it's own head on your wall and threw it's own meat into your freezer. This part of hunting interests me.

I've never hunted before. I have never field dressed an animal before. I have butchered a deer with hand-made stone tools though.

Why do you think hunting shows don't show this part? I suppose for someone who has hunted a lot, this aspect would just seem like drudgery, but as someone who has never hunted, it intrigues me. Certainly more so than the first 20 minutes of a hunting show where someone is just sitting in a blind or tree stand.

 

[caribou]

No $$$ in it.

Taking animals apart is 1/2 the fun!!!!!

I skin 'em and then remove the legs, backstrap and head, then start gutting by removing the neck, then brisket and then the belly meat and remove the intestines.


Everybodys diferent.
I heard of a fella that skins Caribou with an aircompressor at home. Id like to see that.

 

[charby]

Same reason you don't see a stream of blood on the harvested animal or tongues hanging out on dead critters. I think they are trying as hard as they can to make hunting look clean as possible.

 

[caribou]

Now working them down with stone tools would be majorly cool.



My wife butcher'd a Goose with the Jade Ulu, below an ivory handled Slate Ulu, in the frame. Its still very sharp...heck , both are still sharp.

Were you inna class for archeology, or something like that when you butcher'd a Deer?

 

[Vermont]

Were you inna class for archeology, or something like that when you butcher'd a Deer?

Sort of...a couple friends were in an anthropology class and they invited me to come help. We made our tools out of obsidian. My tool was mostly just a piece of obsidian that I smashed on the ground and found a sharp edge on. Some people in the class actually made pretty nice tools. It was a good time and the dining hall cooked up the venison for us afterwards.

 

[Nathanael_Greene]

Why don't hunting shows ever show the field dressing of the animals?

Same reason porno flicks don't show people with herpes sores: It's an inevitable part of the process, but not one that many viewers like to think about.

 

[sbarkowski]

LOL! I dont care who you are thats damn funny!

 

[testar77]

ROFL it's a good thing I had just put my coffee down, or I'd be down a laptop!!!!!

 

[NRA4LIFE]

C'mon, not while I'm eating.....

 

[JackOfAllTradesMasterAtNone]

Yeah! I'm eatin lunch too. Now there's a visual I really didn't need!

-Steve

 

[Titan6]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the host of the show is probably not the one up to his elbows taking the animal apart. Now how would that look if the Great Zumbo or whoever allowed his kill to be dressed by the Tim the intern or Larry the guide?

 

[sbarkowski]

I believe your right on the money there Titan6. Why get yourself all dirty when you've paid a great deal of money for the guiding service. Which it seems all the hunting shows use guided hunts. I for one would like to see it done. Alot of the shows are just watching people hunt. Not many give you information you can actually use.

 

[22lr]

Blood and guts from animals dont sell. People blood and guts on the other hand sell bigtime, go figure.

 

[f4t9r]

Some could learn from it but most do not want to see it.
I think the shows would get alot of grief if they did show field dressing.

 

[salthouse]

As soon as someone invents the "gut-o-matic" it'll be on the shows. I don't think that butt removal tool has the advertising budget just yet.

 

[bobby n.]

the point is the peeta nuts would go ballistic if you di show the skinning and butchering of an animal on pbs or local sports channel. the stations have to go by whats accepted by the morale public in what they allow on the air . but this doesnt mean i wouldnt stand in front of a camera and skin one out and gut it and saw it up...and then toss it in the cooler. i dont mind the second part.
its food and i treat it as such