Mountain Men

[capt1972]

This Marty guy is an idiot! Can't drive a snowmobile worth a crap and they let him fly a plane?

[3legged_lab]

In AK they let anybody that can buy one, fly one.

[AKPirate]

I have tried to watch that show and can't make it past the first commercial. It could have so much more promise but it is terrible.

[assateague]

I have tried to watch that show and can't make it past the first commercial. It could have so much more promise but it is terrible.

Agreed. I was really looking forward to it, but stopped after the second episode. In the words of Gordon Ramsey, they really bollocksed it up.

[MOhuntingGuy]

Just watched a couple episodes for the first time today. The guy in Montana is pretty cool. The Alaska guy is a little off and the guy in NC is a freaking idiot and a damn hippie.

[AKPirate]

Just watched a couple episodes for the first time today. The guy in Montana is pretty cool. The Alaska guy is a little off and the guy in NC is a freaking idiot and a damn hippie.

You will change your mind on all of it soon, it's not worth 5 minutes of your time. All of the guys are probably interesting since they are "out there", but the show is so much of a stage it is not funny. Wolves and bears around every corner, gice me a break. I usually try to be positive, so the positive part of this message is don't waste your time waiting for it to get better

[MOhuntingGuy]

Just watched a couple episodes for the first time today. The guy in Montana is pretty cool. The Alaska guy is a little off and the guy in NC is a freaking idiot and a damn hippie.

You will change your mind on all of it soon, it's not worth 5 minutes of your time. All of the guys are probably interesting since they are "out there", but the show is so much of a stage it is not funny. Wolves and bears around every corner, gice me a break. I usually try to be positive, so the positive part of this message is don't waste your time waiting for it to get better

Haha. I was at a friends house and he was watching it. I could care less about it. Kind of like swamp people and axe men. Those shows were great in the first 2 seasons. Now its all staged and stupid.

[QH's Paw]

Just watched a couple episodes for the first time today. The guy in Montana is pretty cool. The Alaska guy is a little off and the guy in NC is a freaking idiot and a damn hippie.

You will change your mind on all of it soon, it's not worth 5 minutes of your time. All of the guys are probably interesting since they are "out there", but the show is so much of a stage it is not funny. Wolves and bears around every corner, gice me a break. I usually try to be positive, so the positive part of this message is don't waste your time waiting for it to get better

Haha. I was at a friends house and he was watching it. I could care less about it. Kind of like swamp people and axe men. Those shows were great in the first 2 seasons. Now its all staged and stupid.

What MO? Say it isn't so! Axemen and swamp people staged. You mean people don't really pull gators' head up out of the water for photo ops.?

[Flightstopper]

At least they haven't turned duck dynasty into a staged show yet. Pure outdoor reality gold right there.

[Olly]

At least they haven't turned duck dynasty into a staged show yet. Pure outdoor reality gold right there.

They were re-running the first season last night. Si is by far my favorite of the family.

[Flightstopper]

At least they haven't turned duck dynasty into a staged show yet. Pure outdoor reality gold right there.

They were re-running the first season last night. Si is by far my favorite of the family.

They could do a whole season of Si and Jase solo interviews an I would be thoroughly entertained

[Olly]

The turkey hunting episode was pretty funny.

[assateague]

At least they haven't turned duck dynasty into a staged show yet. Pure outdoor reality gold right there.

They were re-running the first season last night. Si is by far my favorite of the family.

They could do a whole season of Si and Jase solo interviews an I would be thoroughly entertained

x2.

[Flightstopper]

The turkey hunting episode was pretty funny.

Yeah that was a good one, I wish I could remember half the stuff they said. The bee one as well with Jase's comment on how bad he want the honey then says how syrup isn't that bad after all. Good stuff

[FlintRiverFowler]

Theres one bit in an episode i saw where phil talking about Si making up science fiction stories thats pretty hilarious.
I met willie once, he was a douche.

[rivercountry]

The turkey hunting episode was pretty funny.

Well my turkey season sucked I would have love to have been there to shoot one those tame roasters.

The NC mountain man seems like a pedophile and goofy as a damn mooncricket.

[rivercountry]

AT needs his own show we could call it ( Attack of the evil Emu's Chronicles of Assa )

I never could find the link on the hunt hate I missed that bet it was some story.

[Flightstopper]

AT needs his own show we could call it ( Attack of the evil Emu's Chronicles of Assa )

I never could find the link on the hunt hate I missed that bet it was some story.

Not to discredit Assa's monumental achievement but there was way more hype than the hunt actually lived out to be. The preparation to the emu slaying was priceless down to emu calls and ancient emu hunting techniques. The actual hunt lasted about five minutes from what I remember.

[assateague]

Yup. It was very anticlimactic.

[Flightstopper]

Yup. It was very anticlimactic.

The story line and preparation was hilarious to say the least.

[assateague]

I was so amped up. It seriously was a letdown when I shot that bustard.

[possumfoot]

should have tried to take it out with a weedeater and a beaver blade.


or maybe a bow.. them sombitches got some hooks.

[assateague]

I seriously considered the bow. But I would still be losing sleep if I stuck it, and it ran off never to be found. I wanted the "sure thing", a dead emu, if given the chance, and I knew the .35 would do just that. And it did. And now I'm depressed because it's over.

[possumfoot]

I seriously considered the bow. But I would still be losing sleep if I stuck it, and it ran off never to be found. I wanted the "sure thing", a dead emu, if given the chance, and I knew the .35 would do just that. And it did. And now I'm depressed because it's over.

i thought there was another one for you to dispatch???

[assateague]

There is, but he (or she) made it back to what we call the Big Woods (about 2,000 acres behind the house), and while the calling worked great for the first one, he (or she) was known to be in much smaller woods. If nobody gets it by the fall, I may try it, but it's just too damn hot to go traipsing through that swampy, tick and chigger infested Big Woods at this time of year. The perfect setup would be having the emu walk by during bow season, and I come out of the woods with a deer and an emu. But that would be a fluke more than an actual effort. The neighbor did shoot a peacock a couple years ago back in there, though. I'd personally like to kill all of them, because they're so darn obnoxious.

[possumfoot]

good god.. must be like hunting at the zoo... only thicker and larger... maybe get some goats to let loose in there..


















































and a tiger!!!

[assateague]

My 70 year old neighbor always swears "there's things in there that I don't want to know about". Granted, it's not the Pacific Northwest or something. The Big Woods are a parcel which is part of about a 6,000 acre piece called the Asherwood Swamp. It used to be much bigger, but has been shrunk some throughout the years by farming and such. Never got logged much, because it's too wet. Anyway, I always heard him say that, and up until about 10 years ago thought it was just stories and such. Then me and the wife were out on the back deck (back field butts up to the swamp) and heard as sound that was like a single medium note on a french horn combined with the sound a semi trucks brakes make when they moan to a stop. The sound lasted about 4 seconds, and tailed off at the end. We've heard it numerous times since then. No idea what it is, but others have heard it their whole lives, and just don't bother wondering anymore. His grandson was hunting back at a stand they put up when the drought started a few years back, about 3/4 mile back in the swamp. Could never get back there, because it was too wet, but this ongoing drought has dropped the water to about knee deep if you're careful where you walk. Beautiful land, old growth water cypress and silver maples at least 4 foot in diameter, with a lot of dry "islands". Grandson was about 15 at the time, and had been hunting these woods (and everywhere) since he was 5, so he's not easily spooked. He called and asked his grandfather to come back to the stand and meet him, because he wasn't coming down. He was shook up, even with a .30-30, "babbling gibberish" was what the grandpa said. Said he wasn't hurt, but wasn't coming down. The neighbor stopped at the house and got me, and we grabbed some lights and guns and went back to get him. Kid was ghost white. Said he heard what sounded like 5 guys sloshing through the water (he knows the difference between the sound deer make wading through water and something else), making a heck of a racket, and then that french horn sound, about 50 yards behind him, then silence. I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little chill, standing back there in that swamp in the dark, with only a headlamp, gun or not. Especially when he got to the part where he didn't hear anything walk away through the water. He still hunts the woods, but nobody's been back to that stand since.

[Flightstopper]

My 70 year old neighbor always swears "there's things in there that I don't want to know about". Granted, it's not the Pacific Northwest or something. The Big Woods are a parcel which is part of about a 6,000 acre piece called the Asherwood Swamp. It used to be much bigger, but has been shrunk some throughout the years by farming and such. Never got logged much, because it's too wet. Anyway, I always heard him say that, and up until about 10 years ago thought it was just stories and such. Then me and the wife were out on the back deck (back field butts up to the swamp) and heard as sound that was like a single medium note on a french horn combined with the sound a semi trucks brakes make when they moan to a stop. The sound lasted about 4 seconds, and tailed off at the end. We've heard it numerous times since then. No idea what it is, but others have heard it their whole lives, and just don't bother wondering anymore. His grandson was hunting back at a stand they put up when the drought started a few years back, about 3/4 mile back in the swamp. Could never get back there, because it was too wet, but this ongoing drought has dropped the water to about knee deep if you're careful where you walk. Beautiful land, old growth water cypress and silver maples at least 4 foot in diameter, with a lot of dry "islands". Grandson was about 15 at the time, and had been hunting these woods (and everywhere) since he was 5, so he's not easily spooked. He called and asked his grandfather to come back to the stand and meet him, because he wasn't coming down. He was shook up, even with a .30-30, "babbling gibberish" was what the grandpa said. Said he wasn't hurt, but wasn't coming down. The neighbor stopped at the house and got me, and we grabbed some lights and guns and went back to get him. Kid was ghost white. Said he heard what sounded like 5 guys sloshing through the water (he knows the difference between the sound deer make wading through water and something else), making a heck of a racket, and then that french horn sound, about 50 yards behind him, then silence. I'd be lying if I said I didn't get a little chill, standing back there in that swamp in the dark, with only a headlamp, gun or not. Especially when he got to the part where he didn't hear anything walk away through the water. He still hunts the woods, but nobody's been back to that stand since.

I think I just piddled my self a bit just from reading that..

[possumfoot]

sounds like an axis deer...

[Bufflehead]

Then me and the wife were out on the back deck (back field butts up to the swamp) and heard as sound that was like a single medium note on a french horn combined with the sound a semi trucks brakes make when they moan to a stop. The sound lasted about 4 seconds, and tailed off at the end. We've heard it numerous times since then.

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