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I am a wildlife photographer and can not tell you the contempt I have for "activists" and their hypocrisy.

You come to love it, cause you're out in it.

Yeah, I'm an advid hunter myself. We as a community know and care more about the environment we hunt in, and the Game we hunt. All them crybaby activist just flock towards each other yelling and screaming with no education and then leave a bunch of trash behind.

Nature needs both hunters and activists. John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt came together, and today we have public lands that otherwise would of been destroyed by the extraction industry.

@@toddshampine understandable yes. But today's general activist is some snowflake yelling and screaming and telling people what they want them to do, and not getting any real point across, than they yell and scream more and more while throwing fits and throwing garbage everywhere without cleaning it up

Reminded me of "you can tell it's an aspen tree because of the way that it is."

That's why I hate watching hollyweird when they have guns in movies/tv shows. The lack of gun safety is unreal with actors hahaha

Yeah I laughed so hard!

I also liked "It's got an agenda that makes me uncomfortable."

@@cameronpage9064 Its a lot like scenes in cars, paying no attention to the road. Just bad directing.

Before or after 😬

@@andthen2123 You think a little grizzly attack would stop this madlad?! lol

his dog's name is Bear. lol

Want to see some people freak out. Put a small pile of chocolate covered peanuts on the ground when someone is not looking and say look at this deer crap. Pick a few up and eat them and start analyzing it.

He should get one of those remote thermometers. Unless he also wants to feel what the bear ate lately lol.

Care to elaborate?

@Will The Cook he didnt kill anyone it was a bear.

@@spoopy9689 he said some guy got attacked by a bear up the river were his brother wws huntin.He also said his brother read on the newspaper.

@Will The Cook dude he said he 'shot the sh*it' with a guy, it's an idiom, he didn't kill a guy...

Me too

Rinella Putelis 2020!

@@laynepalmer8690 I hate how few people are gonna smile at this. This country could use a Latvian Eagle right about now.

@@natemiller448 absolutely Man! I would love those guys, just the whole Meateater crew. Ben, Cal, everybody.

steve was high cuz there are elk east US look it up

@@Thehomelessathlete I think he knows, he hunted them in kentucky...but that was a red deer

So he's done a little bit of fighting in the early 1800s.

Love his dry wit. Class

1800s.. ofc he didnt.. he'd be over 100 if he did

No way,we have a sherlock holmes over here

@@kikokaiko560 r/wooooosh

To be fair, that isn't so much of the director's fault. It's really the screenwriter you should be blaming.

I guess that's why you are hired then = they need an expert to take the blame for their inaccuracy !

There's a lot of stuff like that happening. Mostly it is to fill either artistic expression or audience expectations. Tod Cutler, a medieval prop smith said it well; "You have to consider what the audience wants and expects, that swords go *shing* and bows go *creak*, and when you stab someone in armor, they die." Heavily paraphrased.

Okay, I need some movie names

I can see how frustrating that can be, but I’d think the director would be more concerned with entertainment value than accuracy.

Yep. Steve is a great guy!

thats a reasonable extrapolation.

@@JungleScene i forgot about that word, thanks for reminding me of it

IanChilliard he seems to know the logistics of it

Only reasonable explanation for that comment

Checks out

Sharon Erigonia he basically meant it is another Hunter not a elk

@@wickeli Woosh... This line is also extremely good advice should you travel to Thailand.

Never knew advice for hunting can apply for online dating too lmao

@@Psykout I'm dying lol

@@Psykout do I know you

Think he mighta gotten a director's note on that one - I accidentally watched his "part 2" first & definitely don't remember nearly as much beep-outs going on...? 😆

He rarely swears in meat eater

One shoots the animal the other *shoots the animal*

@@RayaanWani as a hunter, i get to shoot twice!

SOME times. very rarely. this guy is a joke. The straightforward truth about responsible wildlife management is that not everyone can hunt and harvest animals. In the Canada we have an growing number of people and not enough wild animals to take care of everybody. On the off chance that all Canadians attempted to supplant their present modern meat consumption with wild game, they would quickly understand the difficulty of their journey. Demand would overcome supply. The vast majority would not have the option to get big game tags due to limits set by biologists. Every day bag limits would need to be cut. Season lengths would need to be decreased. Unless we want to overturn vast portions of land back to the wild, very few people would have the option to hunt for their food. If we want to preserve wild animals for the foreseeable future and feed the entirety of North America, general hunting isn't the answer. Hunting as a sustainable practice is just not scalable.

Leave it to Humans to Dictate what they think should be happening in the wild

@@futurejameslove facts

Bear: We have exactly the right number of feet, thank you very much, sir.

Too many....? Like 5 bear feet?

@@geosciencenerd that's "bearly" enough for walking.

@neoperseus articulate deez nuts you liberal piece of garbage

@@martiokrzesik5015 Well that escalated quickly 😆

@@martiokrzesik5015 fascinating that you think liberals don't hunt. Maybe this is the articulation that guy was talkin about you needing?

@@theGiver3 I think someone needs to articulate to you that it was a joke. Once again, articulate these nuts

@neoperseus I see you are having problems acting like a normal person, carrying social security out into the World Wide Web isn´t that smart of a thing to do though.

lmao Without hunting and tag laws "hunters" would have slaughtered every living thing. Look at England (they ran out of wildlife), Look at the near extinction of the buffalo The "Noble Hunter" idea makes me laugh they just want to kill something. Spend thousands in hunting equipment to kill something for "food" when I can get a steak for $15 at the store

Absolutely spot on. It's also when you tend to see the most wildlife compared to just tromping through the woods on a trail.

@massaweed420am yup ive seen and been within a foot of wild animals walking into hunt. Amazing stuff great horned owls, 3 legged skunk, badgers, big bucks i could reach out n touch. Hunting 100% connects to something in ur dna

Hence why evolution is still taking place...

As a filmmaker, I can't fully agree on this statement. Stories are always versions of reality and they're not meant to represent reality per se. Not even most documentary films do this. I do understand his perspective on nature but he shouldn't expect fictional or dramatized motion pictures to represent what he loves about nature. That's not the primary job of a film.

So beautiful, so perfect... Lets kill it.

gokucrazy22 my fav quote as well

SuperPunch76 agreed, film is art. But an artist needs to do their research, get references, and execute their plan fully. If I have a big western painting and the horses tack doesn’t look right, any horse person will see that and immediately get taken out of the painting. It’s not hard to make things right without losing your artistic vision.

Meateater, netflix, thank me later

Definitely check out Meateater and also his podcast. It doesn't matter if you're not into hunting.

And check out joe rogans podcast he’s on there a few times great episodes.

His channel on here is super awesome too!

First 2 seasons of Meat Eater are now on RU-vid

Where ya at? I’ll come take some deer

@@vinniedennywini8126 Afghanistan

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Elizabeth S "bEinG a HunTeR DoEsn'T dISreSpEct aNimAls" Peak humanity right here.

Hayley I’m confused what is the point your trying to make? He clearly has learned a lot about animals and doesn’t want them to go extinct. I’d say that qualifies as him caring about the animal.

Hayley You’re right, manipulating nature to more efficiently fill our grocery stores is a much more respectful way to get our nutrients.

@@benjamincorrell6824 are you aware that selective breeding is "manipulating nature", but it allowed for domestication of any plants and animals and encouraged the very growth of civilization. Yes the very foods you enjoy today, such as strawberries, bananas, kale, etc, are the result of "manipulating nature" and genetic modification is a more direct alternative to that process. There are some issues with GM, but getting rid of it entirely is a complete waste of potential.

Justin Vaughn I am aware of all of this, and with much of it I do agree. Haley replied with a general response, so I did as well. My main goal was to point out the ignorance of generalization. Though, these same practices are now known to have caused much damage to our ecosystems for nature designed a perfect system, and we in our ignorance thought we could make something even better (better for us, not for the world which produces it).

deathbyqtip33 Randy Newberg is pretty solid too

Agreed. But Tim Wells gets my vote. lol

Remi Warren Is a badass aswell

you only say that because you've seen him on JRE

@@bennum8813 Being on a talk show is a poor reason.

Kingdom Fitness checkout his show on Netflix, “Meat Eater”. I typically don’t like hunting shows but his is really great.

Same

Gimme your top 5 then

Bump

I expected it for the fact that most Hunters are really usually good at explaining things and telling stories.

@@crackerjackbundy 1. jocko 2. jocko 3. jocko 4. jocko 5. steve

ez views.

To be fair, who DOESN'T Joe Rogan know?

Seems like a good idea to me.

To be fair this guy has a show higher the jre

He’s got a Netflix show

100% agree bought it a few years ago and it's an awesome read

Agree, I listen to his podcast and listen to every book he recommends also. He had the author of the revenant on. So I read it. Excellent. He also wrote a book called Ridgeline about the fetterman massacre. Probably my favorite of all of them

Title??

American Buffalo

I know right, most people don’t know about him unless you are into what he does

he's playing don't starve and it's winter

Maybe he just really likes to make fires?

Jeremiah Johnson is awesome, I'm 19 years old

It's like the saddest movie in the world. I'm not sure how or why anyone can enjoy it.

It's Les Stroud's favorite movie! :) (He's Survivorman for reference)

Oh 100%. He represents the absolute best of of us. Most of us can only wish to be half the man/hunter Rinella is.

rip

And I'm sure eaten during the making of that film. Getting hungry just thinking about it!

@@shawnj1966 "ha ha animal abuse for cinematographic purposes is great"

@@ioioioioio6026 If it was treated the same as an animal being actually hunted I don't see an issue with it, if they killed it and then did nothing with it then I'd have a problem.

@@agentjkunz what I mean is they likely wounded it for cinematic effect before killing it

I'd buy that shirt

And only MeatEater fans understand. 🙂

@@mikehoyme thanks broski

Ah yes, a man of culture. Lol

When he was talking about wind, I kept waiting for this hahahaha

I've never even heard of him before

bandgeek89 he’s a legend in the hunting world

@@reidwitt1168 understandable as to why I've never heard of him...considering I don't hunt

Reid Witt a legend huh? Hahahahahahahaha idk what hunting world you’re in.

He's hilarious

lmao

@@andrewpetersen5261 So is my dog. Not impressive.

I don't think bigart got the joke. Lol.

the hairs on my neck stood up

Best show on TV

Joe rogan

@@joshberkin5567 Meateater podcast

Everything to do with Steve is called Meateater

Listen to the podcast every week. Have never hunted a day in my life but because of Steve, I plan on changing that soon

@@evergreenrider My family has an amazing jerky recipe if you catch a deer!

I wonder if he had exposure during his younger years? You can sort of tell who just learned how to handle a firearm for the role and who actually is familiar. Chris Pratt is a hunter and it shows.

Facts esp with the wind bit

Their job is to be nitpicky. Let em have their fun. lol

Have you watched Les Stroud's video he taught.

Yeah, especially with the wind temp.

Every one I've seen has been like this

If you haven't watched Meat Eater on Netflix, I'd definitely recommend it. It's great.

And if the gun didn't go off, you did something wrong and shouldn't be hunting.

@@Tker1970 alternatively the safety could be on

@@asneakychicken322 The only safety is between your ears. Keep your finger off the trigger unless you're ready to shoot and prepared for the consequences.

Misfires

Yo that timed up perfectly I'm cryin 😂

Hahahah

steve was high cuz there are elk east US look it up

@@Thehomelessathlete It's not an elk, It's a red Stag in the film, slightly similar but different.

I appreciate that you didn't immediately write him off because he hunts. We need more of that today.

He has also been on Joe Rogan a couple times.

trooper1293 As the years have gone by, I’ve realized how much better a hunter is than the average joe who supports commercial farming. Both are unnecessary killing of a beautiful creature, but at least the hunted animal has lived a life of freedom rather than one of torture.

Jancellor Clementine if you're referring to factory farming I completely agree

Check out his podcast Meateater! You'll love it

Ryan Adamczak amen brother

Absolutely

I'd never seen or heard of him before this! Does he have his own show or anything? I need to watch it!

@@Bobbiii0.2 he has a show on Netflix called meat eater. Also has a podcast. Made maybe four to six appearances on The Joe Rogan podcast. Those episodes are fascinating. This dude has traveled the world hunting and even haunted with tribes in the Amazon. He is also written a handful of books.

@@TheOutdoorDude Awesome! Thank you for the info, I'm about to go on a binge watching session lol

@@Bobbiii0.2 No problem. They also have a youtube channel I think. and He's been working with a whitetail hunter named Mark Kenyan on a project called back 40. ru-vid.com *COUGH* I have a channel about fishing if you're into that sort of thing. lol

Definitely

Of course

Same

Same

Same hahaha

Allen Murphy as a connoisseur of such fine cinema, i much prefer MegaShark Vs Crocasaurus

...Ghost Shark you heathens

@@samanthaa7900 megashark vs crocasaurus shits on ghost shark

This comment literally made me choke on my drink. 🤣🤣🤣

J Wilson Handmade Knives megashark vs Giant Octopus is another classic

PowerfulWarbird Try it out

Soo woo!

BIKES!!!

Keeping em high and tight, i see. OH EM GEE. Y'all coming over for moose soup after?

Hey Hitler

You didn't watch Tony Hawk lol.

@@Compton3clipsed I have watched every one of them. Tony Hawk was great as well but my statement still stands.

@@blackkrrsantan8113 In terms of expert information and clear explanation, they are identical. I don't think it's any more expert of an explanation than what Tony gave regarding skateboarding. You are likely just a bigger fan of hunting so feel this was better.

I liked the ex criminal the best but this was cool.

@@Compton3clipsed and you are likely a bigger fan of skateboarding, so you prefer Tony's video...

Right that's what I was thinking. Like yes the year is just on the cusp of animal safety in movies, but it's also right outside it. So it may be like these were some movies that might've "been the straw that broke the camel's back"

Actually the deer in deer hunter was not shot. It was sedated and then filmed till it collapsed to recreate the shooting

You can tell the elk was for sure. The way its spine locked up is definitely a gunshot wound reaction.

My dog ignores most dog wimpers and barks in movies, however, every now and then, there's one, and he gets somewhat concerned. There was a video of a dog being attacked by a Tiger and I've never seen him so aggravated. (which made me realize why he ignores some but not others) which makes me believe even now some animals while they might not be harmed are pushed to actually believe They're in danger.

how does it feel to be wrong and get 101 upvotes for it? lol... the movie that caused the disclaimer for "no animals were harmed during the making of this film" was 1939 Jesse James wherein they blindfolded a horse and rode it off a cliff resulting in the horse breaking its back and dying. the first time the disclaimer appeared in the credits of a film was The Doberman Gang in 1972.

Imagine getting hunted by him

@@TTVTRIXIEMATTEL wouldnt last an hour

He has a podcast called meat eater, as well as a TV show by the same name

N O S E the greatest game haha

He's holding back because he has time constraints and understands his audience's attention span for each subject. He could go on for hours about each of these points and does in his show, podcast, and books.

Grabbed a laugh off this one

I said the same 😅

So he is a political historian?

I still collect all of the front paws of every lawn mole I trap. Got em hanging on a string on my wall😂😂

@@jasonsummit1885 I've never seen mole paws🤔 Imma Google this lol

Said everyone and their mother

Well... Venison Steaks after filming?

According to cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, the scene where the deer was shot by Michael was filmed by giving the trained deer a sedative. It took half an hour for the drug to take effect. They had fenced off an area limiting the deer's range, and two cameras were used.

So long as endangered animals aren't hunted I mostly agree 👌🏻

Forest Green in many cases such as Africa countries strictly regulate the hunting of non breeding old males of endangered animals to being in money for anti poaching efforts habitat improvement or acquisition etc etc. it helps a lot. I’d say HUNTING for endangered animals helps them while POACHING endangered animals hurts them.

Landon Boomsma hunting only helps so people who would poach can do it legally. There’s still a huge issue that there’s any commodity for it, especially when it’s just for sport and not for food. There’s a lot of systemic problems in Africa surrounding poaching that the hunting doesn’t help with

Charlotte Stone you literally didn’t read a single thing I wrote. Hunting is regulated poaching is illegal meaning you’re breaking some sort of law in hunting that animal. It’s pretty simple if you think about it. Hunting provides more money to wildlife conservation than any other areas not only in Africa but in all of North America and much of Europe.

Brett Yarborough why is someone not aloud to hunt for there own food?

this comment is gold

lmfao this took me out xD

With tom commentating?

You see that's not realistic because his head didnt turn into an accordion after the anvil fell on him

J Lancaster same lol

GQ stepping up their game and expanding their demographic.

I know right😂

no kidding lol

Well then you wouldnt be lost would you? ;)

No disrespect, he would be a great asset but i would rather have an army ranger or an FO. Someone super experienced in land nav

@@jonmacgyver743 steve has a podcast with a former navy seal officer, and there are many parallels on how they prepare for days in the back country. Each has an advantage. Are we talking about confronting hostile humans in the wilderness, or simply being lost and knowing how to track animals, and know which plants are ok to eat?

@@jonmacgyver743 www.themeateater.com/listen/meateater/episode-063-seattle-steven-rinella-talks-with-the-beautiful-and-deadly-rorke-denver-along-with-ryan-callaghan-of-first-lite-and-janis-putelis-of-the-meateater-crew

That doesn’t make sense... if you’re in the wilderness with Steve Rinella, you’re not lost

Coincidentally, ZPZ productions produces both Meat Eater and Parts Unknown.

@@DeeplyDrivenOutdoors Neat, well TIL thank you.

Totally agree. We’re big Bourdain fans and constantly say that Rinella makes us feel about nature the way Tony did about travel.

Great comparison!!

Am I really the only one who find it funny that Rinella was compared to a pedophile who was murdered to cover tracks?

And on Netflix

Also any amazing author of many books including American buffalo

Has his own podcast too called meat eater

Went to college for English or Journalism and has written many books now

He's actually willing to go into detail and tell stories and relay facts, instead of just complaining about the videos he's watching.

The perfect blend of education, experience, intelligence, eloquence, relatability, and the "cool" factor.

??? So you don't want to live in a house?

@@DeuPKay Sorry, what?

Callen knows s'little about hunting. And that's obvious.

However you justify slaughtering wildlife is up to you

@@icykickflip your beloved monoculture farms growing unnatural plants that cant even self reproduce half the time is doing alot more to destroy habitats than culling some deer populations do.

@@icykickflipI don’t need to justify it, every predator needs to eat, and we are apex predators