Do you watch Alaskan TV Reailty Shows

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Just curious, how many of you watch the Alaskan / Northern type TV
reality shows, and there are many.

What do you like about particular ones, and dislike, and I do watch a few of them, and others not at all, for various reasons.

I admire the toughness of their lifestyle, but being a shooter and hunter all my life I can't help but
note fundamental errors in shooting and hunting skills. That's just my take.

Example: "Alaska the Last Frontier", the wife of one of the sons is trying to sight in a scoped high power rifle. she is clearly right handed and left eye dominant and trying to sight with her left eye.

Prone type of position right shoulder, gun loose, face over the stock to use left eye....this is gonna hurt I tell my other half before it happens, as were watching. Her husband is standing over this trainwreck and watching it unfold. She touches it off and the scope hammers her above the eye
hard enough to roll her over, lucky it didn't knock her out. Just an observation.

What's yours?
 
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Just the one with the gun shop. Mainly to see Phred. She's the primary asset of that show, and her occasional girl friends. But Ken and the other jerks almost put me off of even that. They totally repel me.

Some of those shows come out of Canada, the Yukon.

These wilderness shows feature a bunch of rustics I wouldn't want to know, and the gun stuff is limited and not usually very interesting.

The Bigfoot reality show is (bleep).

I watch some animal reality shows, but few are really good. I liked the recent one on the Tasmanian "tiger."

My idea of a reality show was The Girls Next Door. But after reading Holly Madison's first book, revealing the truth of things in it and at the Playboy Mansion in general, I find even that tarnished.

The reality survival shows don't amount to much. I can't identify with the scruffy rustics on them, and Bear Grylls's show is just TV rot for drama and ratings. He was/is a SAS soldier, and I do respect that. He has enormous boldness, but the TV show and the spin-off equipment isn't to my liking.

I am absolutely baffled as to why Animal Planet runs housebuilding shows and aquarium shows, etc. let alone pawn shop programming. I miss, Big Cat Diary.

I have watched a few episodes of a show about hunting in Alaska. It was pretty good at times, and not anti-hunting or anti-gun.
 
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They are entertaining, and obviously people are watching, while these people are cashing in some big dough!!
I don't think that there is anything wrong with that, but we all know that these shows lean more towards unreality than reality!! Just my 2 cents worth!!
 
"Just the one with the gun shop. Mainly to see Phred. She's the primary asset of that show, and her occasional girl friends. But Ken and the other jerks almost put me off of even that. They totally repel me. "

Just had one dealing with them==they are as bad in person! Didn't see her, either!
 
I don't watch reality shows at all. Wife had one of the Alaska shows on...for about 10 minutes..just more tripe for the wanna be's. I also saw about 3 minutes of people runnin around nekkid on some island..whatabuncha crapo. What the heck is that all about??? I lived in Alaska for a while and met some of the real ol sourdoughs..Some really hard tough people.... Sold an airplane to one old fella. He told me he was born in 1902 and was 67 at the time. Don't know if he had a pilots license...but he could sure fly
 
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I don't watch reality shows at all. Wife had one of the Alaska shows on...for about 10 minutes..just more tripe for the wanna be's. I also saw about 3 minutes of people runnin around nekkid on some island..whatabuncha crapo. What the heck is that all about??? I lived in Alaska for a while and met some of the real ol sourdoughs..Some really hard tough people.... Sold an airplane to one old fella. He told me he was born in 1902 and was 67 at the time. Don't know if he had a pilots license...but he could sure fly
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LOL! You brought bought back a funny memory of pilots in Alaska. I started flying in Alaska in 1968. At that time the "Student Permit" was nothing more than a copy of your flight physical and a radio operator's permit. As a student pilot you flew on that until properly licensed as a "Private Pilot". .......... Well, the Salmon industry was scattered all over the West Coast of Alaska and they had to get all that fresh salmon to the Anchorage airport every day to provide high grade fresh salmon to the top restaurants in the lower 48. So, they contracted with pilots with their own airplane to fly as much iced down salmon as their airplane could carry from the West Coast to Anchorage. These 'fish flyers' were paid upon delivery to Anchorage. It slowly became obvious to everyone operating out of the Anchorage airports that many so called student pilots were buying an airplane and then after getting soloed in that airplane discontinued any further pilot training and just went to work flying fish. Some became very good self taught pilots and some crashed. No one was too worried about either situation. It came to pass that the official FAA "Student Flight Physical' became known as "The Alaska Commercial Pilot's License". I knew one resident of Anchorage that became so good at "flying fish" and surviving the Alaska weather that he moved up in ever larger airplanes until he purchased a used Cessna 310 twin engine. He stripped out all unnecessary equipment and seats from the plane and would haul about 1,000 lbs. of fish every trip. He never had an actual pilot's rating and when I knew him he had accumulated over 3,500 hrs. of flight time.

I bet that little segment of Alaska commerce has never been featured on any of the so-called reality shows. ....
 
Well it was amazing. I flew from the lower 48 across Canada into Alaska in 1968 and didn't have a pilots license. Even when I crossed the border they never asked for my license. I did have almost a 1000 hours by then. When I took flight instruction and took the PP test I did it in absolute minimum time. Check pilot told me he had never had anyone pass with the minimums before. By that time I had almost 3000 hours. First plane was a Cessna 170 next was the oldest flying ercoupe and I also had a Cessna 310. Bought in a closed bid auction for a bit over 2200 bucks. It had been sitting on an airport for over 3 years..Probably a drug courier plane..you know..pat the seats hard and take a deep breath and get high. We got it moved after getting it running and obtained a ferry permit. It was expensive to fly though. Made mucho bucks on that one
 
The only one I really watched was gold rush but since the old man died, I might not watch it as often.
 
There was one i watched the host was named Geo. It was a good show predating all of this reality stuff.

I also like Alone on history channel.
 
I like Alaska the Great frontier. It may or may not be fake , but I like the people, they seem relatively real.
 
I'm watching Life below Zero right now.
I enjoy their self sufficiency and lack of Government (oversight)
out in the bush. Don't like the -60 below in the winter up at
the Brooks Range where this guy is at.
Don't matter how hot or cold it gets they still get out and take
care of business most days because they have to.


Chuck
 
You mean to tell me they are all staged? I'm moving!!!

They are all mean't to be entertainment not factual documentaries, there's no money in a documentary for some reason. We need to bring back Jim from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, he got his butt kicked by some tough critters. That was entertainment!
 
I like the one with the young babe who now has kids. She was good looking and worth watching just as eye candy. Back to shooting non-skills. Its as bad as the cop shows where no one aims. And they hike uphill and never seem to break a sweat or get winded. I wish I could do that.

Remember the old carpenters advice, to measure twice and cut once? Modify that to take twice as long to aim.
 
What became of the family in Denver who had the gun shop? The one with the hot daughter with the long neck, Paige?

I read somewhere that they got in trouble with IRS for taxes and maybe with ATF, too. ??

I never saw much done to guns there that I'd want done. Mostly expensive customising to make money for the shop.
The "gunsmiths" didn't give me a feeling of high competence.

I'm not sure I want to know much about the gun shop in LA that had all of that Class III ordnance. Red Jacket? It supposedly ran into problems with ATF and the owner was reported to have had an incest issue with his daughter. I don't know if he was actually charged. Details may not be suitable for this board.

I miss shows like Steve Irwin's and Wild Kingdom. But I don't like them hassling/handling the animals. And Irwin took some awful chances. I have the video of his African trip, where the snakes reacted much more realistically than did those he had back in Australia. I always wondered if those were chilled or drugged.
 
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