Mountain Men : History channel should be ashamed for airing the Lynx stuff

That was disgusting seeing that Lynx injured and caught in one of Marty's junk traps as he stalked it. What's worse is that in the episode before Marty was talking about how rare they are. Marty must really be a sick man to talk about how rare an animal is and then go set traps to kill it. Hopefully one day his plane will malfuction and the earth will be rid of that loser.



Do you ever get down on your hands and knees and thank God you have access to me and my dementia?

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That was disgusting seeing that Lynx injured and caught in one of Marty's junk traps as he stalked it. What's worse is that in the episode before Marty was talking about how rare they are. Marty must really be a sick man to talk about how rare an animal is and then go set traps to kill it. Hopefully one day his plane will malfuction and the earth will be rid of that loser.

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Agreed the channel that still has the nerve to call itself HISTORY should be ashamed of itself not only for this piece of garbage shows about garbage people but also for all the other garbage shows on their garbage channel.

These shows are nothing but canned hunts designed to make the killing of animals entertaining done under the guise of "survival". it is disgusting.

Yes, Marty is a sick man and a yellow coward

If you deflect the topic of the thread from the show to me, our discussion is over

Marty will be the downfall of this shows ratings. Majority of reviews and messages I read from others all seem to hate this guy. History channel should take notice!! I'm sure he never checks any of these feedbacks because he is too busy hunting animals that lived there before he came along and built his stupid log cabin. Wow this is the life he gives to his wife and daughter so that he can hunt. Give me a break. He's lucky someone even married him. The guy looks like he baths once a year. It's also very easy to set traps for innocent animals and pull a trigger but since we are told we'll reap what we sow I actually feel sorry for this loser. His future can't be too bright. It'll all come back like Karma for him in another way. The animals will have their revenge!!

I don't know that he will hurt the ratings much as this show is geared towards hunters and trappers of which there are quite a few. I am not into hunting or trapping so it is more Eustace's schtick and Tom's ultra-mellow personality that keeps me peeking from time to time. For the record I am not against hunting if it is a means of providing food and the animals are killed instantly so they do not suffer. A beaver caught in a trap under water is very off putting to me.

I get the whole thing and I appreciate your reply. I realize years ago men and Indians had to hunt to provide food but it's 2015. We have walmarts, shop rite, hannafords, Adams, the list goes on. I also understand if people live very far from cities and civilization it's one thing to need to eat but marty is all about the almighty dollar and hunting for fur. Everytime he kills some animal he mentions $200 or $400.. Really? That's all his brains can register. Ching ta ching. He does not seem them as a living creature. I saw an episode where he brought back a dead animal for his daughter. Give me a break. My dad bought me toys. The man really should get a real job!

I don't know what to tell you. The show is about exploitation of nature for the most part. Outside of that you have people who make their living from drilling oil or releasing harmful emissions into the air or water to name a few. We all produce waste that goes into landfills or sewage treatment facilities. I don't like the trapping bit but considering Marty as some sort of subhuman due to the fact he hunts and traps seems a bit much to me. My understanding as of this board is that he is some sort of forest fire fighter when he is not trapping kind of helps square up for his other activities. There are billions of us that are nothing but pure consumers and nothing more. If humanity is around in another couple hundred of years I wonder what kind of judgement they will pass on us for our short sighted goals? Not much thought to the greater good being made in present times.

Just curious, were does the meat at all of those you mentioned come from? Imagination Land? Where all animals are made of cotton candy and licorice. Where you just tap them on the backside with a feather and they are butchered humanly.

You have just as much animal blood on your hands as Marty does. If not more, because while you have your hands in your pockets, and head buried in the sand. Marty is on front street with both hands held out for everyone to see.

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I don't know that he will hurt the ratings much as this show is geared towards hunters and trappers of which there are quite a few.

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That there Biff, is the reason I detest this show , and the channel that still has the nerve to call itself HISTORY. If you call yourself HISTORY, then your programs should be geared towards those with an interest in "History".

There are channels with programming geared towards hunting and fishing what the useless piece of garbage channel has become is a Basic Cable hunting and fishing channel with caged hunts under the guise of survival, making the killing of animals entertaining






If you deflect the topic of the thread from the show to me, our discussion is over

Hunting and trapping have been a way of life all throughout HISTORY. The lynx, in particular the Canadian Lynx is NOT threatened with extinction in any way, this is the lynx found in Alaska, just to be clear.

To say the man should get a job and buy his food in a grocery store is absurd, Marty, and the rest of the Mountain Men eat a much healthier diet than you do with your store bought, steroid and antibiotic filled meat. Plus, they all get plenty of exercise with their current lifestyle than those of you sitting behind a desk all day then having to pay for a gym membership to get a big of exercise. Most people would not be capable of this way of life, this is why you need someone else to kill and prepare your food for you, if you saw how the animals you eat were treated in life and death you might think differently about how the Mountain Men do it. The men on this show, as well as the women although they aren't shown, work very hard to live the way they do, it's an honest living and a healthier lifestyle.

To wish ill on Marty makes you a very nasty person, biggamemn, you should be ashamed of yourself, you obviously don't understand much about this way of life, perhaps you should to stick to fluff shows.

A yellow coward? As opposed to an anonymous internet critic? Marty routinely faces situations that would make people like you piss their pants and cry for their momma. You wouldn't survive a year of Marty's life and you have the balls to call him a coward?

You are obviously also too ignorant to know what a "canned hunt" is. To you morons, every hunt is "canned".

Survive a year? These Subaru driving, latte sipping,twitter folk wouldn't last two hours. Very few people live this way and they don't tie these animals up and show them naked photos of Rosie O'Donnell or Hillary Clinton, torture them or anything and it's "history" in the sense that we as humans DID at one time long before peanut allergies, gluten intolerance and adhd lived. It's great that we've progressed to where we are, not having to hunt or trap and other modern conviences, but is also saddening to know we've become complete wuzzzies unable to fend off even a telemarketer. The ONLY thing that could top this show would be a sits on the man bear pig.

I totally agree with this person and I think marty should be kicked off this show. I enjoy seeing how people live in wilderness and survive and that's why we watch it but Marty only hunts animals for their furs and money. He is a dirt bag and a loser who should get a real job. The show could do better without him.

We own cats and they are beautiful creatures of God. That cat suffered in martys trap before he finally found it and he could care less when he pulled that trigger. This guy is an uneducated idiot. I totally agree with this other persons message posted and I think marty should be kicked off this show. I enjoy seeing how people live in wilderness and survive and that's why we watch it but Marty only hunts animals for their furs and money. He is a dirt bag and a loser who should get a real job. The show could do bmuch better and be more popular dumping him.!!

"Marty only hunts animals for their fur and money".

You literally contradicted yourself in that statement. Obviously Marty TRAPS animals for their fur, which he does make a profit off of. But you obviously have also seen Marty HUNT in order to provide food for his family and himself. Hunting and trapping, two totally different things.
Also Marty stated in an episode that he eats lynx meat, so thats food and fur. No waste there. As far as the marten meat, i'm sure he uses it as bait or something else useful to him.

Marty is a guy I really can't stand because of the way he does things. I enjoy seeing him build a log cabin and he knows his stuff when it comes to trapping, but when he kills an animal it's just dollar signs to him.

The thing about trapping lynx seems to be that unlike the other animals that die very quickly, these beautiful creatures suffer until they get a shot to the head. I've hunted and killed quite a few animals in my day but trapping those cats seems pretty fk'd. It's just out of sight out of mind with him. I'm not whining about these animals populations because obviously there are professionals in charge of allowing trappers to kill/harvest and that means their numbers are ok, butyou should feel something when you take a lynx. And how is a lynx only worth twice as much as a martin, give me a break?!

Anyway, fur hunting seems a little fk'd to me to begin with since we no longer need it. Meat and leather are a different story. Really, you could get rid of Marty and Rich and this show would be much better. It's the same ole same ole with them every season.



"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl

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Really, you could get rid of Marty and Rich and this show would be much better.

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As you say Standrkm, Marty is interesting for the skills he demonstrates. I think a lot of people would agree with his trapping as it seems to be just for the money and to justify why he can go to the bush for months on end by himself.

Now Rich does not kill anything. He likes to run his dogs and "run off" whatever is threatening his neighbors livestock, but that's it. I really believe that he is against killing anything. His dogs had a bobcat that killed his own rabbits treed near the rabbit pens. Rather than just get a rifle and shoot the cat out of the tree, he gets a chainsaw and cuts the tree down so his dogs can chase it away.

I personally think that Marty and Rich bring more to the program than they take away, so I say keep them on.

I don't know how much credit to give Rich. Does he choose not to kill the cats or are they protected by the state? I thought at one point it was stated that the cats could not be killed.

LOL you think Rich is against killing anything? Do you think his fluffy little bunnies are pets??? They're a delicious, low cost, high production source of lean meat that also yields fur which can be sold, traded or made into usable products. Seriously, you all need to get a grip. The next time you want to bitch about hunting or trapping, look up "slaughterhouse" the source of your store bought meat, or leather, or numerous other products produced from various animal parts should make you feel very self-righteous about how civilized you are. Just because you don't have to look at it, doesn't make you any less responsible.

Thank you! You saved me a rant. I can't believe someone actually tried to use Wal-Mart as a more environmentally sound solution to provide food for your family then say killing 1-2 deer per season to feed your family for the winter, and then use the rest of the kill to make/sell various items to provide further for you and your family.

It is amazing what people are able to live with when all they see is the final product.

And I could better understand their argument if Marty were say doing drive-bys on these animals, but he is just making a living and will ultimately leave less of an eco-footprint that anyone posting to these message boards.

It's getting to be "same ole, same ole" with a lot of the show. The only one really varying their routine is Eustace. His biggest problem is one of these days he or a member of his crew is going to get hurt and then it will be over.

well that guy that was out there with preston and eustace seemed like a plant to me, he just came out of nowhere and failed at their job to make them look better, but I enjoy watching them because they offer a great team aspect to the show, it also gives us a glimpse into the way things were done not too long ago

with marty it's like watching a guy check his trot line, but watching him build the cabin was interesting, that's the stuff I'm into, he's an intelligent guy but is too business as usual for the show, with rich it's just a guy treeing cougars and even though I love seeing large cats being badass but his segments seem staged to the gills, maybe if I hunted with dogs I'd feel differently, but it still feels like he's showed us all he has to show, the same with marty

kyle and his son are great to see together, that family aspect, and I actually anticipate seeming his cattle ranch dream come true

tom is the best, the guy is a master at his craft and really I could watch him share his knowledge all day, just wish he'd tell us some rodeo stories

oh and the guy walking to his future homestead seems to know his stuff and I'm interesting in seeing how he's going to make that crazy idea work, or fail, it's entertaining either way

the show leaves out the small details to create some kind of grand finale buildup, and that makes it less interesting in my opinion




"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl

Everyone complaining about the animals getting hurt - I assume youre all vegetarians right? Because if not youre hypocrites of the highest order.

There's a world of difference between trapping an animal and having it suffer in excruciating pain for hours and hours until it dies (or suffer until it gets shot through the head), and using one of those brain-poker things that we saw in No Country for Old Men and killing the animal instantly.

That being said, if I actually thought about the animal's suffering, it would bother me, so instead I just sit back and enjoy these guys and their badassery in living off the land the way they do.




I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

A little knowledge goes a long way. You're standing in judgement of what people feel now? Do you not understand that Marty is a trapper. He's not doing it for fun, it's how he makes his living. No fur, no living.

A pelt is worth what the market will pay. Doesn't matter the size of the critter.

I see the animal rights lunatics have finally discovered this show. As usual, your ignorance is staggering. Firstly, the Canadian lynx, like the bobcat in the rest of the US, is classified as a species of least concern. Secondly, you plainly display the typical psychosis of your average animal rights nut. Wishing death and bodily harm on a man who participates in regulated, legal and ethical activities like hunting and trapping. If you don't like hunting and trapping, I think you should probably find another show to watch.

Marty is one of my favorite parts of the show. The guy is totally self sufficient. Would love to see one of these peta policemen from this thread try and survive up there.

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