Well, looked at my TTHA magazine. Cover story is a super high dollar south TX deer. Feature story is a monster from a 1500 acre HF place outside Uvalde. Chock full of breeder, "pay to play"

That's true.

But overall the trend towards crass commercialization has been inexorable. As RM said, it is all blended together so much now many folks don't even know the difference anymore.

The hunting shows, TTH magazine, and HFs have all been at the forefront of it. Not every hunting show is Ted Nugent/Wildgame Nation, not every story in TTH is a HF penned hunt, and not every HF place is a canned hunt on 100 acres. But, overall, they have not been good for hunting. IMO.

Well I know a lil red head that has been in multiple issues and the cover and nothing high dollar about shooting a deer off a regular Joe ship the rag man lease. They have been very good to Kacee over the years and for no other reason than her being a kid. Gotta like that.

Ii think the perception for me and other people on the magazine is that for over a long period of time they have built up the reputation of being a HF mag buy possibly just their covers themselves. Lets say a dozen years ago I worked at a bow shop and struggled to sell one particular product and it was mostly because of its exterior coating. It was the PSE compound bows. They just wouldn't change the damn paint. They kept the same bland camo for years. This caused people to walk right buy them and go to the Mathews. Mathews had just come out with the SQ,FX, ect series bows and had a new exterior camo coating. Not to mention the PSE bows had the same ol heavy risers, older style limbs, and those ugly plastic grips. Even when they did come out with a solo cam it was heavy and had the same ol damned camo paint. We actually talked to PSE about this and they said they were struggling for a new design. We explained to PSE that it was hurting their sales. So my point is that when I walk buy or any other random person walks buy TTH mags we look at the cover and see a ridiculously huge deer on it or some write ups about this that or the other and we automatically pass it up because it said TTH on the front of it. Its a long term effect thing. I don't expect them to change their name I just wont buy one. Maybe their new years resolution was to start getting back to the basic hunter this year. The last time I picked one up was at wal mart lets say two deer seasons ago. I did this because it had a natural sized deer on the front cover with an average joe looking hunter holding it up. I scanned pass a lot of HF stuff to get to that right up and read a portion of it while my wife was shopping and set it back on the shelf. The one LF right up wasn't worth me buying a magazine full of sales for huge feeders, huntin buggies, and big velvetine deer. Just didn't interest me. Im sure TTH is doing just fine without my purchase.

Im not trying to take away from your daughters right ups and all of that at all. Ive had writers call me and want to publish pictures and writings on deer and fish that I have killed. I have been in Tx sportsman and a bow hunting news paper. I even have made the local paper a couple times with big fish. If it makes you feel better.

Lol I am defending the magazine everyone wants to bash them for advertising my point is they are willing and do a great job with regular hunt stories more than the hf stuff most the guys whining flip through and look advertisement and don't bother to read. They just assume. And you know how that works out.

BMD - your daughters articles and hunts are real and awesome. I killed a 201 low fence deer in 2009 and was featured in a TH magazine article. I have subscribed for years. But the public and customers rule and there is no denying that the magazine has changed and the perception is it has become a breeder/HF publication. Right or wrong that is the perception so that becomes reality