But its not like breeding cattle
How is it NOT like breeding cattle ? Or at least raising cattle ? You provide them more food than they would evr get wild, special foods full of the stuff to make them grow huge horns, you cull out certain gentics and improve the bloodlines to strengthen the odds of getting huge racks .......... sounds like animal farming to me, they just aren't as tame as cattle.
Ive raised bucks that would break some of your's state records
Bill Yok - and theres the problem. millions of bucks born and raised in the wild and killed in Arkansas in the past 100 years ........ and you raise deer that'd break the record in Arkansas in how many years ? Talk about really shooting yourself in the foot !
A QDM deer in a fenced enviroment cannot be be equally compared to a buck born and raised in the wilds. Apples to oranged for the very reasons you just posted.
In fact, your whole post turned my stomach. Why you described is NOT deer hunting the way I was born and raised and IF that is where Hunting is heading ? I don't want to be a part of it. If I have to pay big money to hunt, feed deer to make their antlers grow bigger, be in a race/competition to see who can shoot the biggest buck, commercialize Hunting with what is described above etc etc ? No ......... thats not what hunting is to me and at that point ........... its not Hunting anymore, its Killing and Slaughtering animals for their horns, animals born and raised on a farm.
Not at all unlike killing Uncle Tom's hereford bull and bragging about how big he was.
Deer as all wildlife belong to the citizens of their respective states
Not fenced deer (varies from state to state of course)
Since CWD many states won't allow the transportation of cervids and the crackdown has begun on game farming. Ask Bill who owns the deer behind his fences
100 acres, thats just plain dangerous to hunt
LOL
Do you know how many millions of deer every year is shot on > 100 acre parcels of land ?
I have 5 acres and plan to hunt it well this fall.