If you have hunting pros from the TV as heroes, eventually you are going to be disappointed or have to hold your nose. They almost all stretch things, bend the rules, or are downright dishonest in the attempt to "look good". That's what happens when you paint yourself into the corner of "Only a Boone and Crockett, or Pope and Young, or SCI book buck is worthy of harvesting. Some people (a lot of people actually) will do anything for fame and fortune.
The sad thing is that new hunters buy into this attitude. There is so much more to hunting and enjoying hunting than taking the biggest trophy on your block. But the people selling hunting gear and hunts have to have a way to persuade you to buy their junk, so they make you think it will help you be cool by taking a trophy. TV hunters jobs are to sell hunting paraphernalia. Unfortunately to accomplish that they have sold the idea that the only good harvest is a trophy harvest.
