Show and Tell Hunters

A rapidly growing group of outdoor enthusiasts are no longer content with the customary tail-gate and meat pole photos as a method of sharing and remembering their hunting adventures. In that same mix of both men and women are the traditional story tellers that enjoy spinning yarns around a glowing camp fire. Artfully posed field photos and video cameras are providing an added challenge and an exciting new medium for today’s outdoor story tellers.

Realizing that there’s a little story teller in all of us, manufactures are producing new cameras that allow the solo hunter the opportunity to show-and-tell their adventures on video. Still, the best way to share the excitement and natures wonders beyond the harvest shot, is when two friends work together as a team. This has proven to be an excellent way of showing others there’s much more to hunting then just the harvested game.

No one has done more to direct and assist these aspiring Outdoor All Stars than John Campbell and his staff. The same positive attributes that competition brings to the field for athletic teams, the Campbell’s Outdoor Challenge brings to the sport of filming hunts. Many hunters have benefited from participating on a competition firing range or 3D archery course by learning from each other and setting the bar a little higher.

Identifying common key elements used by today’s Outdoor TV Story Tellers, and giving due credit to the skillful artisans behind the camera is what the Campbell’s Outdoor Challenge is all about.

Recently, eleven teams of these new age story tellers traveled to Bang’s Paradise Valley Hunt Club in southern South Carolina to pursue free ranging wild hogs. Each participant was an outdoor videographer, as well as an avid hunter and all were willing to share new equipment, ideas, and video techniques. They came to refine their skills as they evaluated themselves against one another.

With the excitement and wonder of nature being caught on film for all to see, it’s no wonder that the sport of filming hunts has brought friends and family together by the thousands each year. I for one, first started taking a video camera to the timber with me the day after I saw a small gray squirrel ease down a low hanging vine to touch noses with a spotted fawn.

If you find yourself sitting motionless for hours, or days, to capture that once in a life time moment when your hunting partner turns to say, “That was awesome, did you get that?” :You may be hooked on the sport of filming hunts.

If you use the noon sun reflecting off of a hunter’s bald head to set your white balance: You may be hooked on the sport of filming hunts.

If the only footage you’ve shot, after 3 days of hunting, is a mosquito sucking the blood from your own arm: You may be hooked on the sport of filming hunts.

If your video camera has recorded the inside of your camouflage backpack… volume #9:

Well, you get…”The Point of View”.