I remember listening to an episode of the Meateater Podcast a while back....one of Rinella's brothers was on there. He lives in Alaska and I think they were sheep hunting. Anyway, I remember they were discussing how one of his biggest disagreements with Steven is on the need for "Hunter Recruitment". He admitted that it was a catch-22 because more people hunting means more protection for hunting rights, conservation, etc, but that he selfishly wanted LESS people hunting because more hunters = more competition, pressure, etc...and this from folks that almost exclusively hunt out west were there is a LOT more public land.

I'm in my 10th turkey season. Early on I loved Pinhoti, in particular. There's no denying Dave Owens knows what he's doing. I also watched a lot of the THP and Catman stuff. But as someone who almost exclusively does my turkey hunting on public land, it's obvious that it's had a major impact (largely negative) on public land hunting and now I just about can't stand to watch any of it.

Turkey hunting has become "cool" and "fashionable", much like what happened to duck hunting during the heyday of Duck Commander/Duck Dynasty. I'm not sure if that has calmed down or not recently but I definitely don't notice nearly as much stuff on social media about duck hunting as I did 8-10 yrs ago. Hopefully this turkey hunting "fad" will fall out popularity soon.

Someone needs to make it their mission to make hog hunting and predator hunting/trapping the next "cool thing"

Isaiah 5:20