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Anyone keep up with the Hunting Public guys? Wondering where in Bama they are at.

They're on the boycott list for promoting Chamberlains BS propaganda

I’d rather run a drill bit into my big toe than watch that group again.

Y'all fill me in. What did I miss?

I’ve watched 3 public land hunting YouTubers this evening. All three bumped more birds than I care to watch, that makes it seem like it’s not a big deal… I’m out on caring where they are, unless the drive a black 4 door dodge with a camper shell…

They, Catman, and Dave Owens are the primary reasons I will likely never again set foot on so many Alabama and TN public land places I used to love to hunt a turkey on. Hence, I can’t friggin stand em and refuse to watch and/or support anything they do. I have no idea which WMA or forest they are pimping out for personal profit now. And don’t care to know.

Screw every last YouTuber for what they are doing and have done to turkey hunting.
I’m still convinced there’s a touch of gay in a couple of THP guys.

Yep

I believe they have done way more damage than good to turkey hunting. Hence, I don't watch.

Dang, yall mad ? I dont watch them anymore cause they annoy me, but I think they are pretty good killers and dang smart to figure out how to hunt for a living with few expenses and no dues or land loans.

I know all the popularity of hunting public land seems like a bad thing currently but it wont suprise me if that publicity wont benefit public land in a ton of ways in the future, at least thats my hope.

It ain’t hard to live with few expenses when you sacrifice a family and career to do so.
Turkey hunting is my passion. But I’m not giving up my two boys and the land I’ve bought to raise them on, to get to hunt more in the spring.
I guess I could travel around with a couple other career-less dudes, sleeping in a van down by the river to do so….I’d hate to get down the road, too old to have a family, only to realize the life I traded to spend the spring sleeping butt to nut with some long haired yankee accent weird Al Yankovic.

I remember when they first came down and hunted Murphy. Everybody was excited about it and were quick to say they were seeing what real hunting was like with hard turkeys. Then the next two years they come back, killed several and exposed that maybe they aren’t as hard as we like to tell people they are.

I hate that it’s brought the pressure and exposure here as bad as anybody, and it’s most definitely affected places, it’s just ironic how it all flipped script.

If you ever get bored, search back for the early YouTube posts. The first Pinhoti season, and The Hunting Public is in Bama thread from 2018 are quite entertaining to read now with the narratives out there on them now.

A quick google search says that with 563K subscribers, their YouTube channel is worth over $900K so they ain’t doing too bad. It looks like they make about $350K per year just off YouTube.

In comparison, Pinhoti only has 41K subscribers and Catman has about 85K.

👆🏿 He’s right ya know. Every one listed are ruining Alabama public lands just like TN public. I do not support any of them and hope to run into one of them specifically up here one day! Lol

Would it be over-reaching to prohibit for-profit filming on WMAs?

It doesn’t seem like a stretch to argue that they are running a commercial business on public land. No different than harvesting and selling plants from state lands, as an example.

I think this is already law on some western wilderness areas, but I could be wrong.

That’s exactly what needs to happen. Mine, yours, and everyone else’s money from license sales goes to keeping up lands these jokers are filming and making 350K per year on. Where’s the states cut of the pie? As money hungry the DCNR is, I can’t believe they haven’t created a 20,000K per year tag to film or something like that.

I vividly remember starting a Pinhoti Project thread that went for tons of pages. I ran across Dave’s stuff one night bored to tears and waiting on turkey season to arrive. I deeply admired and identified with the way he pursued a turkey and his calling abilities. And I still do. But he effed up. BAD. He is an attention whore and has long since thrown precious pearls before an American generation of arsehole, also attention whores, swine with ZERO interest in doing it the way he, I, and many others do. All they want is the hero shot to put on the internet and nothing more. And for that, he can kiss my whole, hairy, white arse. Same for all for all the rest of the social media and Youtube heroes and attention whores. I swear if turkey kill videos and pictures were banned from the internet, 95% of people hunting em today would quit.

I dunno where they are but the one video they've shown I saw more turkey tracks in it than I've seen all year in person. I'm jealous

Chad…you are my hero 😂 I literally couldn’t have summed it up better…tell em brother! It pisses me off deeply as I rarely ever post turkey kills or any kills. I have friends who literally imitate everything Dave does. Even talking like him. THP can kiss my tail as well. I didn’t care for them before but after sucking off Chamberlain and getting paid by TWRA, I’d love to run into them as others have said. Y’all done fired me up this am 😂

There’s several of us here that could teach them a thing or two!