A most interesting thread! In the late 1990's, I purchased a VHS tape of the American Sportsman's 'Bird Hunting' episodes. (As I recall, there were two other tapes in the series; Big Game Hunting (Jimmy Dean killing a huge Alaskan bull moose, etc.), and Game Fishing (Ted Williams fly fishing for tarpon; Lee Wulff fishing for cutthroat trout, etc.).
Much to my disgust, the "Bird Hunting" VHS did not contain the episode Dave refers to, of Robert Stack and Jackie Stewart shooting driven grouse in Scotland.
Years later I was introduced to a woman at a wedding rehearsal dinner in Allentown PA who had worked for years directly with Roone Arledge of ABC. I posed the question directly to her as to why this and a few other great segments had not been included on that particular tape. She said probably due to segment space and duration, but that she didn't really know but would check with Arledge and get back to me. A few weeks after the wedding I got a call from her saying that was exactly the case.
I even offered to pay within reason for a broadcast quality edit of the episode, but they declined; by that time Ameican Sportsman was featuring things like John Denver hang gliding in the Swiss Alps and Chery Tiegs para-sailing in Aruba.
In a phone conversation about a year before he died, Robert Stack told me that particular assignment made him feeling 'giddy and guilty' at the same time: "No one should have been paid for having that much fun!, he said. He and Stewart shot days-on / days-off, alternating some of the best grouse moors in Scotland for 10 days.
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