R Buker
New member
I recently finished watching the new Bill Martz Coyote Tutorial.
It's faily commonly known that I don't care much for Bill Martz. With that being said, I'll try to be as fair as possible with this review.
There are some good things about the video. First, it has some good scenes with coyotes coming to the call. The scenery is very pretty where he is hunting.
Some of his information is on coyotes is sound. Taken with a grain of salt, I believe much of what he says about coyote behavior is basically true to some degree.
I had several problems with this video. First off, Bill is the narrator. This entire video is narrated. There is no actual sound from any of the scenes except the gunshots. The problem with him narrating is that he is very DULL. My wife was sitting at the computer playing a game as I watched this and after about five minutes, she turned around and said "This guy is boring!"
Secondly, there are a lot of segments where you need to read the content on the screen. There isn't anyone reading along with it. It's just a black screen with writing and the words scroll past so slowly that it's a pain to read.
Bill's attitude toward his camera man and towards his shooters and towards his viewers is very much negative. Sometimes he will compliment the shooter or the camera man but you can tell the tone is generally negative.
Bill states his opinions on coyotes as if they are facts. This is one part of the video where you have to take the things he says with more than a grain of salt. He made some statments that were, in my opinion, very incorrect and could lead to frustration on the part of a newbie caller.
A large part of the video was supposed to be the coyote vocalizations. During that segment, you see a black screen with white letters telling you what kind of a howl you are hearing in the background. I believe these sounds are open to a lot of opinion. For example, the screen will show a label that says Male territorial howl and then you hear a coyote howl. How in the world do we know that it's from a male or female based on the howl. Is it because the voice is lower? Bill states these things as facts and I can tell you from experience that I've killed female coyotes with lower voices than some of the males I've killed.
I was also disapointed in the hunting segments. Bill told us what sounds he used. What we didn't get was how the sounds were used. It would have been nice to hear how he was using the sounds he did in order to get the coyotes to respond.
In short, I didn't buy this video and I'm glad I didn't. I don't think it's worth the asking price. I'd hate to suggest it to a beginner because beginners tend to take these sorts of things as gospel and his information is nothing more than an opinion. I think some experienced coyote hunters might get a kick out of it though. Lots of stuff in there that makes you scratch your head.
Randy
It's faily commonly known that I don't care much for Bill Martz. With that being said, I'll try to be as fair as possible with this review.
There are some good things about the video. First, it has some good scenes with coyotes coming to the call. The scenery is very pretty where he is hunting.
Some of his information is on coyotes is sound. Taken with a grain of salt, I believe much of what he says about coyote behavior is basically true to some degree.
I had several problems with this video. First off, Bill is the narrator. This entire video is narrated. There is no actual sound from any of the scenes except the gunshots. The problem with him narrating is that he is very DULL. My wife was sitting at the computer playing a game as I watched this and after about five minutes, she turned around and said "This guy is boring!"
Secondly, there are a lot of segments where you need to read the content on the screen. There isn't anyone reading along with it. It's just a black screen with writing and the words scroll past so slowly that it's a pain to read.
Bill's attitude toward his camera man and towards his shooters and towards his viewers is very much negative. Sometimes he will compliment the shooter or the camera man but you can tell the tone is generally negative.
Bill states his opinions on coyotes as if they are facts. This is one part of the video where you have to take the things he says with more than a grain of salt. He made some statments that were, in my opinion, very incorrect and could lead to frustration on the part of a newbie caller.
A large part of the video was supposed to be the coyote vocalizations. During that segment, you see a black screen with white letters telling you what kind of a howl you are hearing in the background. I believe these sounds are open to a lot of opinion. For example, the screen will show a label that says Male territorial howl and then you hear a coyote howl. How in the world do we know that it's from a male or female based on the howl. Is it because the voice is lower? Bill states these things as facts and I can tell you from experience that I've killed female coyotes with lower voices than some of the males I've killed.
I was also disapointed in the hunting segments. Bill told us what sounds he used. What we didn't get was how the sounds were used. It would have been nice to hear how he was using the sounds he did in order to get the coyotes to respond.
In short, I didn't buy this video and I'm glad I didn't. I don't think it's worth the asking price. I'd hate to suggest it to a beginner because beginners tend to take these sorts of things as gospel and his information is nothing more than an opinion. I think some experienced coyote hunters might get a kick out of it though. Lots of stuff in there that makes you scratch your head.
Randy
[Try typing that without laughing] We haven't had anyone of his caliber around for quite awhile. And like Danny says he wakes everyone up. And he reminds me of my first ex wife....Mrs. Right, Her first name was "Always."
