RE: Take a look at this!!!
It has gotten out of hand on this topic! The 'trophy' hunters who attempt to force evreyone to follow their egotistical concept of what hunting is all about will be the downfalll of hunting. QDM started out with some good ideas, but like everything else, some people have to go to extremes. If a few supplemental plots are helpful to the herds, why not turn 75% of the property into a plot and build yourself a mini condo and name ' your' deer and add those magical antler growth potions as well as ,ad nauseum, ad nauseum! 10 years ago hunting magazines had articles on scrapes, interpreting sign, the rut, etc. Now they might as well be a farming manual. Make the deer come to you, why actually go out and hunt? We need to change the name or change our approach. I talk to a lot of non-hunters. They will be the ones that cast the deciding ballots for the future of hunting. I have yet had one object to hunting as it has been defined from the get go, but without exception they are opposed to the trophy mentality. I hunt for the challenge of breaking down a piece of property and learning and patterning the deer--not luring them into an ambush by some astronomical food plot and 'deer factory'--and I hope for a mature animal and exercise a common sense approach to 'management'. But the way things are now has gotten out of hand!