WOW!!!!! That is messed up. No tolerance. Lock him up for a long time!

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crazy about filming hunts on a ranch that he works at and has no right to hunt.


as for the video:


Deer and hunt was way oversold. I hear " I busted a big, mature 8 point" I wanna see a 5 or 6 year old 8 that scores 140 or better. not a 3 1/2 deer that is in the 110's. this has been done forever, in one of the original monster bucks vid's bob foulkrod shot a 2 1/2 year old 110" deer on the perlitz ranch and tried to pass it off as a good buck

the whole video lacked substance and seemed more like a video a first time hunter would make for self-promotion to put on facebook and say "look at me" than a person who has been there before.


IMO you need to get rid of the AR and use a bolt gun.....your deer hunting not playing Call of Duty

Deserves to be in jail. You'd have to be a complete idiot to think someone wouldn't recognize the ranch and especially the inside of the ranch house

woops

Y'all need to go check out the thread on this over at tbh. Pretty amazing!

It's absolutely hilarious to me that the "hunter" is actually asking people how the video is bad...

I don't fault him for being lied to, but the video is just absolutely terrible.

No knowledge of basically anything.
Calls young deer "mature, huge" etc.
Hunts with an AR.
Practices terrible firearm safety.
Has no idea what he's even looking at. Wanted to shoot what was probably a yearling or 2.5 yr old before he settled on a 3.5 yr old.
Asks shallow, information'less questions to the "professional hunter" the majority of the recording...

There was nothing good about it. Again, was like watching 13-yr-old me the first time I ever crawled into a deer blind. Absolutely not production level hunting in any capacity.

Again, sucks he was lied to and that's not on him, but actually questioning people that (correctly) pointed out the video was garbage is probably ill-founded.

Tuck your tail and take your beating and move on. When you drop a big, steaming dump, people are likely to tell you it stinks.

HERE IS WHERE IT STARTS TO GET GOOD...

Thanks for the feedback. Like I said I can take heat, and I have never faulted anyone for commenting negatively as "couch commentary" is normal and to be expected. Everyone has their views and opinions and I respect them all. I am not perfect and I learn from my mistakes.

But a few things I would like to point out:

Before I even moved the rifle down after the shot the safety went on and the muzzle stayed away from me at all times. Firearm safety is always number one. Maybe I should have ut it on camera but before I left the blind the round that was still in the chamber did come out of the firearm before I headed out of the blind.

Many people hunt with an AR, and I use my .308 AR for everything, and there is nothing wrong with that.

That deer was about 4.5 and I made the mistake trying to get more out of it for the sake of the video. Lesson learned. But still weighed 180 lbs on the hoof and was big bodied and a solid 8
point from what I am used to seeing up here in East Texas.

On the second deer I left my sunshade in my bad so the angle of the sun made the screen pretty blurry so when I took the shot I lost sight for a slip second right after the shot and I am used to dropping them in their tracks, so yes I questioned myself if I had missed somehow.

As for the interview... When you ask several questions and the interviewee freezes and doe snot do well on camera you change up the game of the interview to at least make it flow.

But another ironic thing is that I received mostly positive feedback until the hammer dropped about Garrett himself. And I was the one to post the scam alert about him in the first place in efforts to gain more accounts of hunters to come forward to the Game Warden after I spoke with him.

Did not have a spotting scope for the bob cat and he was about 400 yards out walking straight for us, as soon as he turned sideways we were able to identify it.

Lots of people use drone while hunting and filming, but due to a delay regarding 8 illegals and waiting for border patrol to come so they could arrest them, we got to the blind late and I had to get my area video quick before the hunt actually started. So I flew it from inside the blind no remembering the lights it had on the bottom would stay on and not turn off with the sleep mode. Lesson learned there...

Once again thank you for the feedback and I will take all of it to hear when creating my future videos :-)

Once again thanks for the feedback.

Great feedback. Thank you!

And I agree the narration and fireplace commentary was not my favorite part but was a request by the guide.. Although we all know how he turned out.

But I build the videos around the requests of the guides and outfitters.. Here is one I did sort of my own style and a lot less commentary and more hunting involved.

What the What? This has to be one of the craziest things I have ever read on here. The guy selling these hunts had some major huevos to go along with a severe case of stupid.

Hog Video:

If the intention was to have me laugh, you succeeded when you were slinging lead with abandon on that sounder. I've never seen in slow motion so many missed shots on a tight group like that. I can see your young and green when it comes to hunting. We all have to start somewhere and I'm guessing you have been trying to figure it out on the fly.

I'm all for killing hogs. As many as possible. But if your going to film it and post it, I suggest giving it more thought through editing before you post it. Slinging lead at night with a high powered rifle through brush at moving animals is going to bring a lot of negative criticism your way from the public. I doubt that this is what your sponsors want as far as public perception.

Before you do any more spot and stalk hunts, get some Bog Pod shooting sticks. You owe it to the animals your shooting at to at least try to make good clean kill shots but also makes the video much easier to continue watching without the shaky image.

Lastly, stop trying to defend making those young bucks you killed older than they were. Consider it a lesson learned and move on. As one of our members pointed out, you just make yourself look foolish and I can tell that's not what you want to accomplish. I wish you luck with your future videos.

You might need more experience but we all do...if we want to admit it or not. The only part of your video that makes me crazy is how you hold your rifle by the mag well when you shoot. Not a big deal at all but it is like nails on a chalk board to me.

But what do I know! As the kids say "You do you!"

I guess I'd just suggest you learn even the most rudimentary basics before making videos and trying to sell yourself as some sort of hunter. We can all shoot guns. My 6-yr-old can do that. It'd probably go over a whole lot better if you just started your videos saying you don't know anything and are a beginner filming the process of learning of it all.

When you try to come across like you know what you're doing and just very, very obviously do not, it's almost insulting for anyone that's hunted longer than a year to watch.

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Joseph, I'm not going to knock you on your video skills or hunting skills as I clearly recall you are fairly inexperienced with hunting in general; if I recall correctly it was just a few years ago that you were going on day hunt leases for your first hunting experiences ever. My guess is that you got into filming hunts as a further way to penetrate into hunting more properties and likely at a reduced cost if any at all. To that end, I will pose a question on whether the accused hunting guide ever triggered your "hunter skepticism" radar or intuition during any of your interactions with him or was it purely only after it all came crashing down and was spelled out in his undoing? More curiosity than anything bud.

In December, I watched the first 5 minutes and lost interest. The movie was bad and I had no idea why everyone kept commenting on it. I finally opened the post again and this is hilarious. I just wasted the last hour getting caught up.

Just because you have a key to the gate it doesnt make you a ph