It is all relative. Like many of you I started hunting young but at a time when there were not that many deer. As a teen and young adult I killed my fair share. I grew up in Ohio, have lived in AZ and AL and now live in LA. We can kill 6 a year but no one counts. Six LA deer might have the same amount of meat as one good midwest cornfed deer. Season runs October 1 through the end of January in LA. I get to spend a lot of time in the field which seems to be more important now than the actual kill.

I go back to Ohio to hunt each year. I let bucks walk that would be a deer of a lifetime in the south. Shooting a deer at 100 yards with a rifle is not a challenge, to me, so I have worked on using a bow, muzzleloader and now a pistol. With that said any deer taken legally and humanely is a trophy, no matter what the method. I applaud those of you that feed the hungry by sharing your harvest.

The first animal I killed was a squirrel. While I have them running around my yard now I still get a rush when I see them in the woods. If I stop getting that rush I think I will stop hunting.

Good Hunting to you all. I hope you get to share your passion with someone young. Pass it on.