American huntress Melissa Bachman! Her controversial trophy hunting, early childhood, career and relationships!

Updated On March 18, 2024 | Published By: shahid | In Career , Lifestyle , Relationship

Melissa Bachman is an American huntress who has been both appreciated for her courage and also criticized for her animal killing and hunting!
She is a producer and a TV host.

She has her own show on Sportsman Channel called ‘Winchester Deadly Passion’.

She has been the subject of innumerable controversies in the past. So what are the controversies that have hit Melissa?

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Melissa’s controversial hunting

Melissa is an extremely brave huntress. She has traveled the world and has hunted down many animals during these trips. Due to this, she is hated by animal lovers.

In August 2012, National Geographic Channel was planning to get Melissa as one of the contestants for their ‘Ultimate Survival Alaska’.

But soon on change.org, there was a petition by Tim Martell against this idea and it received a whopping 13000 signatures in just a days’ time. Due to this, she was eliminated from the show.

Melissa landed herself in another trouble when she uploaded on her social media a picture of her trophy hunting. She had put up a picture of a dead lion that she had killed. Melissa was seen beside this lion’s body holding a gun.

She captioned this picture as:

“An incredible day hunting in South Africa! Stalked inside 60-yards on this beautiful male lion… what a hunt!”

There was huge internet anger over this and she even received her death wishes over it. There were hate mail and death threats too! A Cape Town resident also requested the South African government to bar her entry into their country.

Melissa was not bothered by these hate messages and took the action of temporarily deactivating her Facebook and Twitter accounts. The death threats to her got diverted to another person with a similar name!

The hunt facilitators (Maroi Conservancy) defended the whole game and stated that the hunt was both legal and ethical and the funds from it were to go for donation.

Many also supported her and called the anger sexist. They also added that lions were not included in the endangered species. Melissa only said that she could do without those hate mail.

In 2015, she justified all that she does and added:

“No response at all seems to be the best. It doesn’t matter what you say, or how you say it, some people will always disagree and attack.”

About Melissa Bachman

Melissa is born in 1984 and was brought up in a small town in Paynesville Minnesota. She derives her love for hunting from her parents (Dale and Karen) who were also hunters.

Melissa was just 5 years old when she started accompanying her parents on their hunting trips. She had her own bow weighing 18 kg and in order to strengthen her muscles to carry this bow, Melissa exercised in the form of pushups for nearly a year. Little was ready to do her own hunting by the age of 12.

She was at the local school. She used to hunt with her parents in the morning and then attend school at 10 am. Little was also brilliant at school in academics as well as sports.

She was crowned the homecoming queen. After her school graduation in 2002 with a distinction, Melissa joined St Cloud State University and graduated with a double major in Spanish and Broadcast Journalism.

Source: Melissabachman.com (Melissa with her mother Karen)

She worked as a waitress and also did an unpaid internship at North America Media Group ‘North American Hunter TV in Minnetonka. Melissa was hired by them as a producer and used to provide tips on archery.

She formed her own production company in 2010 and named it Deadly Passion Productions. Little used to edit and also do post-production work herself. She gave speeches, and lectures made online videos, and wrote articles for various magazines.

So what about her personal life?

Melissa is not married. She stays more than 300 days out of her home and lives out of the box. She is shooting and filming. Melissa also is said to have no boyfriends. She is for all practical purposes single and busy with her profession.

Source: Peterson's hunting (Melissa) — Source: Peterson’s hunting (Melissa)

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Short bio on Melissa Bachman

Melissa Bachman is an American huntress and Television host. Currently, she runs the television program Winchester Deadly Passion on the Sportsman Channel, Pursuit Channel, and Wild TV. Moreover, she also owns a production company named Deadly Passion Productions. More bio…

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