page_title: Melissa Bachman
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Melissa Bachman / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: American hunter Melissa Bachman models a necklace from her ammunition based SureShot Jewelry collection, http://mobile.sureshotjewelry.com/#/category/melissa-bachman
context_page_description: Melissa Bachman is a well known American huntress, producer, and host of hunting television programs, currently of the cable television program Winchester Deadly Passion
context_section_description: After graduating in 2006, Bachman sent out 76 video resumes without finding work, and had to take an unpaid internship with North American Media Group's North American Hunter Television in Minnetonka, driving 150 miles (240 km) round trip each day, and working nights as a waitress at a nightclub. Four months later she was hired as a full time producer for the show. She progressed to camera work, first by giving on-camera archery tips that other hunters were unwilling to, and later by filming and editing many of her own hunts to be aired for free, including a bow hunt of a 202 inch Illinois White-tailed deer. "Nobody turns down free work, I learned," she says. As a camera professional, she shot, produced, and edited the first season of Mark Kayser's Extreme Pursuits program.
  In 2010, Bachman left NAMG to found her own production company named Deadly Passion Productions. She edited and did post-production work for hunting television shows including Dangerous Game, created online and instructional videos, led seminars on hunting at sports shows, managed social media sites, and wrote magazine articles. In January 2012, she returned to North American Hunter as a host. Among her work for NAH was a five-day-a-week video series called "My Take" with Melissa Bachman, that ran from February to August.
  In March 2012, Bachman took the world record for a red stag shot by a female archer in a New Zealand hunt. The hunt was aired both on "My Take" and on Winchester Deadly Passion.
  The Winchester Deadly Passion program, also produced by North American Media Group, began airing in July 2012 on the Pursuit Channel, and was picked up by the Sportsman Channel for its third season, July 2014. It is named after and sponsored by Winchester Ammunition. In it, Melissa Bachman is filmed traveling the world to hunt animals using rifle, bow, or shotgun. Bachman stars in, produces, and edits the program herself. She works around 200 days a year in the field, switching between two cameramen who need more time off. In 2014, the program came out with a clothing line, and in 2015, Bachman sponsored an ammunition based jewelry line.
  Bachman struggles for an answer when asked about her life outside TV programs and hunting. "I can't even keep a plant alive — that's how little I'm home," she says.
caption: Melissa Bachman with SureShot Jewelry ammunition based necklace in 2015.
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