You need to see this

[Craig Reynolds]

Debutante Hunters Sundance Film Festival

www.yahoo.com/debutante-hunters27874990.html

[Richard LaMendola]

Craig, tried web page, would not come up. Is site correct.

Rich

[AmarilloMike]

Ditto

[David]

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[Craig Reynolds]

Try my other post. I think that one works.
Craig

[Bill Murphy]

Wonderful film, Craig. Thanks for the links and thanks to George for the information he provided in the other thread. One of the more interesting parts of the firm is the list of credits.

[Kevin McCormack]

Definitely made my day! - A sprinkling of GRITS (Girls Raised In The South) out amongst 'em in the wilds. And what about the young lady loading her A-5 round knob vent rib 20 gauge from her grandmother's shell pouch - Oh, Lawdy!!

[Craig Reynolds]

Kevin
I don,t know if you noticed but this vedio won first place at the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 in the short film catagory. There were over 700 entries and the judges selected 10 films to vote for and the winner was the shooting sports. As a side note there was a segment on 60 Minutes that showed the good side of ranch hunting in Texas. It focused on how they were saving some rare and endangered amimals from Africa. The person interviewed that represented Friends of Amimals did not come across very well when Laura Logan intervieded her. The ranchers did very well.
Craig

[Kevin McCormack]

Craig,
I am very familiar with the Sundance Festival and hope one day to enter a short-subject film on marsh hunting for waterfowl and shorebirds (not ducks and geese. A good friend of mine was filmed by Outdoors Maryland, our local PBS channel years ago, and made a great 22-minute film on the intracacies of hunting ducks in a shortgrass marsh using watercraft as blinds. The film was nominated and sent to Sundance but was not selected, which was a shame, since it is yet the best piece on this type of hunting yet.

My younger brother wrote screenplays and script for the "Wings" channel on WW II aircraft for several years and convinced me that in films, as many other things in life, good things can come in quite small packages. The amazing original VHS conversion of the TV-broadcast format tape showing punt gunning in Great Britain (still legal) is less than a half-hour long, and is still one of the most incredible real-time films on waterfowl hunting ever made.

Coincidentally enough, I did in fact see the 60 minutes segment on exotic African animal hunting in Texas. My wife and daughter were watching the SAG awards so I taped it and split-screened it as it was taping when a commercial came on the SAG channel. After a few 'jumps", they both wanted to hear Lara Logan, one our our alltime favorites, so we watched the complete cut where Logan interviewed the FOA spokesperson. You're right; I'd be worried about my PR image if I was an FOA type!

The simple fact is that a number of the species they showed are not only surviving but in fact thriving in the very similar Texas climate and environment to that of Africa. I would LOVE to see a way that these dedicated people could import African elephant in small numbers and experiment on similar survival quotients (not for hunting but for breeding stock) but I don't know how they would ever contain them. Commerial American bison breeders go through containment and restraining designs for fences and enclosures constantly, with limited success. It would be great to see a 150-pound tusker while out wild quail hunting in the panhandle!!

(PS - Almost forgot - loved the comment from her dad about the pearls on the A-5 girl!)