How to Become an Outdoor TV Host with Chad Schearer
Day 4: Chad Schearer Explains How His Family Consistently Takes Trophy Animals during a 30 Minute TV Show
If you watch outdoor television, then you’ve noticed that on almost every hunting or fishing show, the host is always successful in taking a trophy animal or catching a trophy fish. If you believe what you see on TV, then you’ll think you shouldn’t have to spend more than 30 minutes in the morning or 30 minutes in the afternoon working to bag your trophy. However, remember that television cameras have stop-and-start buttons on them. When there’s not any action happening, or the hunter doesn’t see an animal, the STOP button is pushed. When an animal comes to within range of the camera, the ON button is pushed. Therefore, the time between when the host arrives at hunting camp to the time he or she is standing over a trophy may have taken many, many days, instead of only 20 minutes like you see on TV.
Most TV show hosts I know agree that often they only get the footage for one TV show for every three hunting trips they take. The reason why is quite simple. Regardless of how good a hunter you may be, you can’t control the weather, you can’t control when and where a trophy animal will show-up, and you can’t control the wind. Even with trail cameras, if your camera’s taking pictures or videos of a big buck showing-up at a particular spot at almost the same time every day, you still can’t be certain that the same buck will appear at that same place during your 3- to 5-day hunt, even if you’re one of the best hunters in the nation. To get the show you see on television may require the outdoor host to hunt from 1 day to sometimes as long as 3 weeks. Rather then telling you all the details of what’s required to video a hunt, here’s Chad Schearer, the host of “Shoot Straight” TV show (http://www.shootstraighttv.com), telling you in his own words the reality of producing a 30-minute TV show.
