Duck Dynasty --disgrace to the waterfowl tradition

[Eli M]

this thread shows that everyone comes at duck hunting from a different perspective. for some it is more a solitary, reverent and respectful outdoor activity.

for me it is, "we got ducks! let's get er'body to the blind...get the food bag, coffee and cooler...got plenty o' bullets?...ok....LET'S PARTY!"

then it's, "ok, there they are....get still...aink,aink,aink...killem...boombabooboobabo oom...there's a crip..boom...hatchet(call name)", joke, laugh, eat, repeat, as many times as necessary in a given day. when a flock is down and you rake a dozen greenheads it's hooten', high fivein' and gigglin' like school girls. to me there is nothin better than a ten man blind, every hole manned and the decoys full of birds two minutes before legal.

when it's on, i have friends that i call and tell them, they say "how many people are gonna be there?"(they turkey and or deer hunt too) "oh, i don't want to hunt with that many!" WHAT? i respect that some of my buds rather kill six ducks alone than sixty at a party......i just don't understand it?

all this to say, i didn't see the show. i will watch next week and i suppose i will probably like it....

chris, in classic rock terms:

the cult classic, duck men of louisianna(vhs w/yellow jacket) = lynyrd skynyrd live at the fox
the duckmen II = lynyrnd skynyrd reunion tour '88
the duckmen 3, 4,.....blah, blah = skynyrd everything else

Chris, I'm both style of hunter. I like my morning hunts where the dogs and I slip into the swamp, set up in quiet, very peaceful, very spiritual for me. But I also love the evening after work field hunts for geese with a bunch of buddies, laughing and joking, setting up the dekes, and screwing around til BOOM time, then as soon as the shooting is over its back to it... The debate here isn't because of a conflict of these two styles, I think its a matter of what we expected the shows content to be. Really I think this show exploits the hunting tie in to draw a crowd to the show, but for hunting content they may as well be making tennis shoes.

[Lucky Number Seven]

BTW, I haven't seen the Boyz use a hunting dawg in any shows in the last few years.

They actually have a phenomenal retriever that is used in pretty much every episode but they choose not to show it all the time. There is actually an episode where they forgot the dog one morning and Phil was visibly upset about it and made the guys retrieve their own ducks because they forgot the dog. Someone finally went and got the dog and all was good.

[fjwrt]

tryed to watch part of an episode last night, it is not about duck hunting for sure

[Bob Barnett]

I like them but that show was not good. Staged and bad acting.

[John Kelder]

Saw the show last night- it was funny enough I didn't change the channel . I watched a show about a family who is in business and hunts, cooks , plays football and has fun doing it .It wasn't a hunting show . Very little hunting footage actually.And nothing unethical from the hunting footage .
We all might do well to remember market hunting is part of the waterfowling tradition regards....

[Chris Atkinson]

That's not exactly true. It was in Duckmen 2 "Point Blank" where he passed on shooting the deer. Mr. Warren has only been in the original Duckmen. He most certainly did say shooting a deer is like shooting a cow. It was a 4 point if my memory serves me correct. Anywho, he did shoot a doe in what I believe was Duckmen 5, but it could have been 4 or even 6.

As far as chasing the $$$$, you'd be surprised how he doesn't exactly flaunt it. Most of the time he's speaking @ churches (For those who don't know about him that's a huge turnaround in his life & it's nothing short of fantastic.) around the country and for events. When he's not, he's still the river rat that he grew up being. I'll continue to watch his shows & buy his DVDs. No way can I turn a blind eye to a local man who went from rags to riches. He's simply the best duck hunter of all time.

Jacob,

You're right. I decided to dig through the box if VHS tapes in the basement. I found Duckmen 2 Point Blank. That is indeed where he says "shooting a deer is like shooting a cow." But he follows up with "I almost shot him."

I think sometimes we believe or remember what we want to remember. I chose to take what Phil said (from my memory) as that shooting deer was something he considered non-challenging and undesirable.

I also found this. Phil Robertson Deer Flip Shot. So my memory of this was off too. I wanted to write earlier that the deer flipped, but I did not want to come across as exaggerating. One thing this underscores to me is how our memory and our perception of something can get skewed from reality.

One of my former colleagues is a neighbor of Phil's and I had heard a good bit about Phil's humble ways and his community involvement. I know Phil's not going to let his success in the industry turn him into something he's not.

Chris

[Paul "Happy" Gilmore]

I love duck hunting. I can't stand any of the new shows out today. If the show starts out with some sort of corny late 1990's tribal tatoo looking logo with the name of the show in the middle of it, I pass.

The new hunting shows so overproduced you feel like after you get done watching it, you look outside you'll have gay-rodeo biker flames painted down the side of your truck and logo stickers from all the product advertisments you just listed to being plugged over and over during the show.

And don't forget how much duck hunters LOVE listening to Rave beats while they watch guys shooting ducks.....that always does it for me.....- (barf)

[Rtyler4616]

I don't see how it is embarassing waterfowlers, it was an entertaining show, not really about duck hunting, but I don't think it's supposed to be. It's a reality show.

On that note, why are they getting bagged for "chasing the bucks," They've created a succesful business, good for them.

I'm not even a big Duck Commander follower, but I'm not so uptight about it to where I think they're selling out because they're making a profit. Hard to have a successful tv show without "selling" out to some degree, somebody's gotta pay for it.

I enjoy RNT-V the most, and probably dislike The Fowl Life the most, not a big fan of all the affliction t shirts and they hardly ever have a dog on any of the episodes I've watched.

BUT I'd still rather watch any bird hunting show over the same ole deer hunting show where the guy is whispering the whole time, and you don't see anything happen until the last couple of minutes.

[bcalls]

phil said they added bleeps to the show to make it look like they were cussing and they weren't. Hollywood trick. Phil is a stand up man. Haven't saw the show though.

[BonMallari]

[QUOTE=Jacob Hawkes;943024]That's not exactly true. It was in Duckmen 2 "Point Blank" where he passed on shooting the deer. Mr. Warren has only been in the original Duckmen. He most certainly did say shooting a deer is like shooting a cow. It was a 4 point if my memory serves me correct. Anywho, he did shoot a doe in what I believe was Duckmen 5, but it could have been 4 or even 6.

As far as chasing the $$$$, you'd be surprised how he doesn't exactly flaunt it. Most of the time he's speaking @ churches (For those who don't know about him that's a huge turnaround in his life & it's nothing short of fantastic.) around the country and for events. When he's not, he's still the river rat that he grew up being. I'll continue to watch his shows & buy his DVDs. No way can I turn a blind eye to a local man who went from rags to riches. He's simply the best duck hunter of all time.[/QUOTE]

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