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Post by seak89 on Feb 13, 2016 1:50:51 GMT -5
Most don't know it but at least six Alaska reality shows have been busted the last couple of years with the proof right on T.V.. Four have been big name hunting shows. Plus bush people and survivor. We know what the Nuge got,not to much but this group just got it handed to them. www.adn.com/article/20160212/syndicate-hunting-host-sentenced-prison-years-poaching
I know of one handgun writer that was having a story looked at as in print it was illegal taking or brown bear so even writing can get you in trouble.The state is broke and any income is good even if F&G has too dig it out. |
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Post by bulasteve on Feb 13, 2016 8:49:41 GMT -5
We like the following Alaska based shows..Life Below Zero, Alaska, the Last Frontier, and the Last Alaskans. Bush people never rang true, and several more of the survival type shows have me wondering about game and fish laws. The Mtn Man show we like too, with one of the characters being in Alaska, Marty. You being closer to the scene, neat hearing your POV.. Not likely we'll get an.. "Ohio, the 2nd Frontier !" show. Ha ! Though right now it kinda looks like Alsaska outside here. High of 10 degrees today, snowing, high winds keeping visiblity down. You could have filmed the movie, The Revenant, in my bakyard. The Grand River is freezing over before our eyes. |
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Post by contender on Feb 13, 2016 9:18:12 GMT -5
Due to the idiots producing these shows,,, laws do get broken. I know this for fact.
I had a NY producer call me to buy some critters for a show they are filming here in WNC. (Live Free or Die.) They wanted some animals to use for filming. My business is "Animal Damage Control." I catch critters.
I educated them in the FACT it is illegal to sell any wild animal OR it's parts in NC. Nobody had told them anything like this and they were too stupid to get a copy of the game regulations.
None of these busts surprise me.
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Post by Fowler on Feb 13, 2016 9:48:39 GMT -5
Reality show are not real, none of them.
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Post by BigBore44 on Feb 13, 2016 13:22:51 GMT -5
I watch a few of them (NOT Bush people, stupid!).
My favorite was The Last Alaskan's! That was the most real of'em all I think. Very laid back and believable... imho
I'm watching Railroad Alaska now. Pretty good show also...
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Post by perterra on Feb 13, 2016 13:41:16 GMT -5
Never been a problem for me, I dont watch TV
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Post by ProGun on Feb 14, 2016 9:42:37 GMT -5
Never been a problem for me, I dont watch TV Me neither! Haven't had cable at the house for 10 years. However, it's a different story at the fire station- where there is cable, but I don't usually have control over the remote.  |
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Post by Snyd on Feb 14, 2016 10:54:09 GMT -5
Most don't know it but at least six Alaska reality shows have been busted the last couple of years with the proof right on T.V.. Four have been big name hunting shows. Plus bush people and survivor. We know what the Nuge got,not to much but this group just got it handed to them. www.adn.com/article/20160212/syndicate-hunting-host-sentenced-prison-years-poaching
I know of one handgun writer that was having a story looked at as in print it was illegal taking or brown bear so even writing can get you in trouble.The state is broke and any income is good even if F&G has too dig it out. Good! They need to keep nailing all these poachers! So called "reality" shows are crap. We don't have cable. I didn't even know about these shows other than Alaska State Troopers until we spent some time in CO last winter in a condo with cable then I watched a few of them. A bunch of garbage. |
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Post by jayhawker on Feb 14, 2016 12:20:52 GMT -5
People forget that in all of the "reality" shows, no matter how dangerous things appear, there is a film crew filming it that are in no danger. I always assumed that in all the Survivor series, when they stopped filming for the day, the cast returned to the motel with the crew.
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Post by BigBore44 on Feb 14, 2016 14:37:12 GMT -5
I always have to laugh at some things that happen on these "Reality" shows. The. BEST was on Mountain Men, they are Always saying you have to use your head and be able to get yourself out of trouble (Bush Smart). Well if you remember, Marty had his snowmobile breakdown once in awhile. One time he had to walk back to his cabin at night (maybe 8 miles iirc?) because his motor QUIT. It was very dark & Brrrr cold  The next day he walked back to the snowmobile carrying a spare motor. I told dad if Marty was really "Bush Smart" he wouldn't have had to freeze his azz off walkin back to his cabin, he could have just jumped on a sled the film crew had, and been home in no time flat  Bush Smart HA?!! BigBore44 |
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Post by nolongcolt on Feb 14, 2016 14:51:25 GMT -5
Over the years I have seen a number of these so called reality shows, some I like better than others. But if the viewer thinks that what he is watching is real, they are a boob for many of the reasons already noted. Currently I don't watch any such programs. I particularly got fed up with that logging show Axe Men, too much contrived conflict, phony fights etc. I even gave up on Deadliest Catch which I liked having spent a lot of time in Alaskan waters, not on crabbers but on tug boats which is much more civilized. Funny thing a couple of months ago. Sig Hansen (Northwestern) and his lovely wife walked into the local Dairy Queen for dinner one night in Mt. Vernon, WA, and my boy and I were there. I thought about hob nobbing a bit but in the end decided to leave the poor bugger in peace.
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Post by kings6 on Feb 14, 2016 16:18:06 GMT -5
Reality and TV are two incongruent terms in my book.
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Post by seancass on Feb 14, 2016 16:28:08 GMT -5
I still find it odd that "reality tv" is made up of the least realistic shows. Why does anyone call it that?
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Post by sixshot on Feb 14, 2016 17:10:42 GMT -5
Some of the loners are there for a reason, either drugs or some other felony & they just don't fit into society. That lady living out in Kavik needs to be alone, can you imagine her in a civilized town. It wouldn't be for long!
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Post by bulasteve on Feb 15, 2016 12:34:49 GMT -5
I enjoy the scenery, the lifestyle depicted. You have to understand that some desk weasel back in a city somewhere decides how to mix the film footage and sound bytes. Some of these people are real, and their lives are real, how an editor tweeks their portrayel..something else. I have some kinda non-winged critter to hunt down or trap in my basement now, gotta go.. Dog went to bottom of steps and peeled left toward loading bench, nose to ground to sump, behind my loading bench. She is gunshy and won't go to that corner of basement. Later, upon returning from feeding outside critters, she hit same scent and went to opposite corner, behind furnace and such. Need to pull some traps from garage/barn,attic and shift a few to basement before wife goes off ! What I'm saying is, if you live rural enough, you should understand.
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