Lil Joe,
I haven't seen the show because I don't get the Outdoor Channel but I've sure heard plenty from buddies calling and mocking me.
Those boys have come out here to the West and been on a few deer and elk hunts and stuff with an outdoor buddy of mine. I got to know them and they are pretty fun guys. They were coming out to do a couple of lion hunts and during the year my buddy ended up moving.
Basically, I just got kind of roped into helping him last minute. Since I was already friends with them I told them sure, come on. I didn't know it was all going to be filmed and put on TV.
I don't know which one you watched, but the actual hunts were OK. But all the BS about mentioning sponsors, and promoting their scents, clothes, predator calls, etc... I had a gut full of that in about 2 minutes.
They are fun guys and fun to hunt with, I could have done without all the camera stuff and the BS that flew once the cameras were turned on. But some of it was pretty comical.
They wanted to come this year again but I politely declined.

They did go out to CA this past fall and do a bear hunt with my buddy Tony and he said the BS was just as bad when the cameras rolled.
As he put it, "It would have been a damn good time if they'd have just left that ****** camera home."
But I knew the instant it ran on TV the first time because I got a phone call from a buddy and he was laughing his ass off. So I knew I was going to hear plenty about it.
What the camera probably didn't show on the one hunt was that it was an all day affair... got off the mountain in the dark and everyone was EXHAUSTED. Nice tom, but he made us pay dearly. Dogs hung up in the ledges, people hung up in ledges and unable to go down canyon, fatigue and bitter cold. Not sure the cameras captured the human suffering on that hunt.

(Most of it mine)
If you see me on any of those future TV shows, it's going to be an episode shot down in the Stripper club in town, it damn sure won't be on the mountain.
For those TV guys, it's all about the kill. For me it's about the dogs and has nothing to do with the kill, so I'm not their guy. Every time I talk to them, they mention a hunt but they got the wrong guy here.
I'm a pursuit guy, if I never see another lion fall out of a tree dead it will be too soon.
