Melissa Bachman
Melissa Bachman’s career began as a TV intern and soon landed a position as a full-time producer. Around this time, she traveled around the world filming numerous incredible hunts and hunters which gave her great opportunity to experience.
She experienced and learned so much while sitting off-camera, but always longed to be the one haunting & bringing the wonders of the hunters to views around the world. With her never-ending thirst to achieve this goal, she started filming her own hunts.
Career Timeline
- 2010- Left her role on ‘North American Hunter’ Television and created own production company, ‘Deadly Passion Production’
- 2012- Returned to ‘North American Hunter’ as a host that January
- 2012- Starred in her own show called ‘The Winchester Deadly Passion’ that July
- 2014- Launched a clothing line followed by jewelry line next year
After each successful hunt, Melissa would edit the clip together and give the footage away with hopes of earning exposure. After the countless hunt of animals & putting together solid shows, her dream becomes reality with a debut on big screen.
Her show, ‘Winchester Deadly Program’ which she created, stars in, produces and edits, began airing in 2012 on the Pursuit Channel till the third season. Now, it airs on the Sportsman Channel. In it, she is documented traveling the globe to hunt animals using shotgun, bow or rifle.
6-year-later since, she works 200 days a year in the ground, switching between cameraperson & leading lady. Prior to this scene, as a camera profession, she covered, produced & edited the 1st season of ‘Extreme Pursuits’ by Mark Kayser.
She has done editing and post-production work for Versus’ hunting TV series ‘Dangerous Game’. Additionally, she created online instructional videos which led seminars on hunting and eventually writing for magazine articles.
