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Originally Posted By: CZ527Video quality is the best I've seen. There's a little bit of "know it all" in the air, but that's probably just the Texan in them.
James if you read this, I have a question for you. What percentage (roughly of course) are you able to get on film. I mostly hunt contests, and we get up to 15 coyotes down. I wonder are we just good at killing them or is the camera a curse? I have rarely seen a show where more than a few were taken, though it does happen.
FYI, the Night Crew is not my team, we have however filmed a show with them, that will air in the next few weeks.
I would say 75+% of the coyotes we kill are on film, and we are over 100 since early Dec, hunting them on foot. No arrogance here, but the camera comes naturally now, as it should after a decade of filming, gear up, get in, I've got the settings down and my shooter prone, ready to kill almost as quick as we would without it, and vice versa.
I would say however by filming it slows us due to the footage we capture after the kills so we can put the production together. We've often talked about putting down the camera for a month, and go straight kill mode (which would be scary), but I'm not interested in that, numbers are numbers, all you see now is kill, kill, kill, kill, the quality of the kill goes down, it's a huge "richard" measuring contest. I was part of it when we killed 20 in 2 hours, with 2HD cameras, including a quint, quad, triple, double and multiple singles.
This is why I like the Night Crew so much, they are doing what we do, bringing QUALITY to the kill, putting more value in one animal as I believe it should be, instead of diluting the pool with redundancy like every other show out there. "This week We're with this "prostaffer" hunting his honey holes, with his know how to promote "our" show (which I have no issue with, it's just not our style). Night Crew is similar to us in a sense that we are the ones hunting them on foot, we are the ones filming them, editing the footage, producing our work, uploading the content, bringing you along for the ride... My bad for the run on, but you catch my gist, a camera sure can be a curse, you just need to figure out what it is your trying to accomplish.
James if you read this, I have a question for you. What percentage (roughly of course) are you able to get on film. I mostly hunt contests, and we get up to 15 coyotes down. I wonder are we just good at killing them or is the camera a curse? I have rarely seen a show where more than a few were taken, though it does happen.
FYI, the Night Crew is not my team, we have however filmed a show with them, that will air in the next few weeks.
I would say 75+% of the coyotes we kill are on film, and we are over 100 since early Dec, hunting them on foot. No arrogance here, but the camera comes naturally now, as it should after a decade of filming, gear up, get in, I've got the settings down and my shooter prone, ready to kill almost as quick as we would without it, and vice versa.
I would say however by filming it slows us due to the footage we capture after the kills so we can put the production together. We've often talked about putting down the camera for a month, and go straight kill mode (which would be scary), but I'm not interested in that, numbers are numbers, all you see now is kill, kill, kill, kill, the quality of the kill goes down, it's a huge "richard" measuring contest. I was part of it when we killed 20 in 2 hours, with 2HD cameras, including a quint, quad, triple, double and multiple singles.
This is why I like the Night Crew so much, they are doing what we do, bringing QUALITY to the kill, putting more value in one animal as I believe it should be, instead of diluting the pool with redundancy like every other show out there. "This week We're with this "prostaffer" hunting his honey holes, with his know how to promote "our" show (which I have no issue with, it's just not our style). Night Crew is similar to us in a sense that we are the ones hunting them on foot, we are the ones filming them, editing the footage, producing our work, uploading the content, bringing you along for the ride... My bad for the run on, but you catch my gist, a camera sure can be a curse, you just need to figure out what it is your trying to accomplish.