danielesselstrom I started watching this a few days ago and the show is obviously scripted reality. They create fake problems and say very inaccurate things. "My riffle misfired because it wasn't sited in properly"? The only thing the site and trigger have in common is that they are connected to the same gun. And episode 4 the one I just got done watching. What freaking tiny Toyota pickup on the planet weighs 5 tons! THAT IS 10000 LBS! The show is just plagued with tons of inaccuracies and fake drama. It could of been a good show if it just focused on teachings and showed how to do things when living in the wild. Next show produced like this should hire writers that don't live in a condo above a grocery store in a city.

dartleyk the laughable bottom of the barrel for reality shows; but will he be able to fight through the snowstorm- says the voice-over as the camera is there already, searching for the arrival- then cut to commercial; the worst is s southern con man called eustace who has an avaricious website that belies his supposed lifestyle of living off the land; among other travesties- he and a friend ride to the sound of chain saws to shoot whomever is cutting their trees, in the wilderness he supposedly lives in; nope; it a developer on his own side of the property line; looking for the real thing? try the by now quite old dick proneke book and documentary he filmed himself- real loner surviving the wilderness in style; the kirchers reality is better than mountain men, but suffers from the same hype- and we're so remote, so self-reliant, hunting, fishing so we don't starve- so what are all those old cars doing there? dropped from the sky?

laurenthoutent Great series, but needlessly staged, over dramatized and much too repetitive.Why create such an atmosphere of danger and stress? We know there is a whole camera crew there at all times. We see Tom and his friends go duck hunting, a duck is shot and the camera shows the dead duck. With a camera crew next to the bird, the hunters can't find it? Embarrassing.A grizzly is lurking at night in the yard, Tom fires a shot then goes on his own, armed with a torch to investigate. Come on, we have archive footage of a bear, then a probably armed crew goes filming in the yard.The voice over keeps reminding us that Marty is all on his own, no mention of the cameramen, sound technicians etc. When he breaks down at night "10 miles away from his cabin", are we really to believe that a heartless, sadistic crew would film him unarmed, walking to exhaustion for hours, gasping for water, with bears and wolves marauding? Same when using the plane - will he / won't he make it, shouldn't fly in this weather etc, with his plane being filmed from another aircraft. The loss of his glasses (series 1 -06) to add tension to him being on a very tight schedule ("with no one around for hundreds of miles") was a silly staged situation; search for a couple of minutes, then "oh there they are", camera zooms and miracle! his brown frame, brown oval rimmed spectacles have become white frame white square rim "broken" spectacles! Eustace owes a fair bit of money and claims he is broke. Is he really staring in two TV series pro bono? The chase for the alleged poacher was not credible. Two mountain men moving silently, but accompanied by a full camera crew stomping in the woods. Any poacher would have heard them from miles away.The persistent over dramatization is embarrassing. Will he make in time / will he crash / will the bears or the wolves attack / is he lost in the snow etc etcWhy are we shown the same clips half a dozen times during an episode, going back and forth in time? As for the archive footage of hungry bears and wolves (wolves can weight up to 140 pounds we are told zillions of times), perhaps it made cheap padding, but very boring by the end of the series.Very interesting series, but one gets the feeling that it's produced for an audience of primary school children.

bg_7774 The mountain man of North Carolina show I know from experience is so pumped up for ratings I guess... it's laughable. Killing as was done to an small opossum that was in the hen house was totally uncalled for... I live in the mountains with wildlife not killing them. First secure the hen house so nothing can get in.. it's simple and easy. Preventative can be done by using common sense...lazy and being uneducated bring killing for no good reason. Second an opossum does not go after chickens, only the eggs so the dead animals were killed by something else. This is a show pumped up with drama but not the way life is lived by the ones who love nature and wildlife. What is done for reality shows now a days is just stupid.. all for the drama.