Thread: the magic of photoshop!

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

So if I was to pay a few grand to shoot a massive record winning stag in a paddock and photoshop it into the hacket(one of the original releases of fallow now overrun by people and pinetrees and the associated spotlighters) and win trophys and have magazine interviews and storys that would be fine yes?

You'd be a fucking hero up with the best, of course that's only until we found out about it, then you'd crash and burn. Funny I was talking to my old mate about guiding Americans shooting in the SI in the 60-70s. One of the other guides had a client that wanted a good head, he was a world renown bow hunter, even got an elephant with a bow! Well hi above Queenstown capping out a couple of heads while the client was dining out this other guide said to my old mate, this ugly 10 pointer taken with the bow was actually shot by him, under the bow hunters instructions. Posing for the photos the guide had to push an arrow into the bullet hole!. Old mate got sent a glossy mag from the States a few months later and low a behold a photo of the bow hunter posing with the ugly ten pointer and a write up on a very difficult and exciting hunt! Been going on for years!

Wow, impressive!

Same guy said to his client that in the morning they would be away before light and be climbing that hill there and they would get him a nice stag, client no,no,no! In the morning you can get away and shoot a stag for me and I'll stay here, my mate said that ain't happening, if you don't want to go and shoot your own deer that was fine with him. Client bitched and moaned about the cost of the trip etc etc, but old mate said that's the way it was, he wasn't going to put in the hard yards for this plonker to pose for photos of an animal he didn't shoot and tell all his mates he did! He said the fitness level of some of these guys was appalling.

Originally Posted by kiwijames

Not seen the article but "Nimrod" was a biblical term for for a great hunter.
Or more probably, a local HB hunter who often uses the alias Nimrod and has had more than one story published in a few rags you may have miss interpreted.

I must of.

What about someone who shoots a good head spotlighting in a wilderness area & then enters it in NZDA comps?

Timer for the word Stalker to disappear ! Long range shooting is the same, no stalking involved

This sort of shit happens every where, I have talked to a couple of fishing charter guys I know that have taken out the TV fishing people and been on one trip with one, safe to say "don't believe everything you see on TV".
One was with a couple of groper that had already been pulled up by someone else and then re-rigged and weighted up and thrown back over board so a certain Fishing star could then be filmed bringing it up and claiming it as his own.

Why are we all surprised with all this? They are just trying to make money. If you are not out doing it yourself I guess you know no better

This actually disgusts me, Im fairly new to big game hunting and this never really occured to me that magazines would do this. I have that issue on my coffee table and distinctly remember thinking, shit thats a big rack for public land.

a few years ago ,iwas asked by my brother to source some animal heads for a bar he was opening..
in the course of this i ended up in a very prominent taxidermists shop.standing before me was a fairly hefty full mount wapiti sans antlers.
curiosity getting the better of me ,i innocently asked an assistant what the story was.
to my disgust it belonged to the spoilt wee son of a singaporean billionare .apparently dady having had a gutsful of the wee turd banished him to NZ 'big game hunting".
the rack to be put on was off a farmed animal and as this "hunter"had shelled out $10,000.00(if my memories correct) it was being freighted home with this wopping great but totally false head!
this staffer didnt see anything wrong ,but i walked out in disgust , disgust for the number of kiwi hunters whod struggle all their lives to get anything resembling this, and disgust that this fucking forgery was being mooted as a real example of our game trophies when it blatantly wasnt!
needless to say i wont darken that doorway again.
its like these shooting mags where duckshooters display vast quantities of ducks ,then fucking complain about reduced duck numbers in their regions.yeah we know you can shoot the bloody things without the great white bwana shit ,being repeated continuously. hows abouts taking as much as you can process and eat.

Originally Posted by JRW87

This actually disgusts me, Im fairly new to big game hunting and this never really occured to me that magazines would do this. I have that issue on my coffee table and distinctly remember thinking, shit thats a big rack for public land.

JRW87, ponder this ... More deer are shot in the pub than are ever taken on the hill, here's a thread worth a read, I was a member of this trip... the story will never grace a glossy mag but by christ it's cracker of a yarn. The lessons learnt and the sweat spilt, for me this is hunting... a story that I will treasure forever, not one that will sell a thousand copies but one shared on here by a handful of blokes doing what hunting is really all about... well to me anyway!

this is one of hundreds ... save your hard earned $$ for hunting gear as there is more info and absolute beauty yarns on here than you will ever read in a mag!
http://www.nzhuntingandshooting.co.n...-2014-a-16649/

honesty in "journalism": lol

hunting mags are garbage

Originally Posted by gimp

hunting mags are garbage

Guess you won't be watching nz hunter tv tonight then?

Originally Posted by Shearer

Guess you won't be watching nz hunter tv tonight then?

nope, mostly because my television doesn't have a freeview thing and I don't give enough of a shit to buy one