ORIGINAL: IL-Cornfed
Mathewsboy, who cares who touches the antlers first??? I can't believe it is actually something you would think about??? [&:]
Metro, you not knowing Jack and his incredibly dedicated and serious approach to hunting top end animals..... YOU sound and look like the BOZO by your comments! Perhaps you're a backwoods hillbilly Bob that favors the Fitzgeralds show and that direction of "hunting"???
Don't care for the Fitzgerald's obvious disrespectful approach, but care even less for the approach to hunting as some , ego focused, and solely score conscious elitists that try to make hunting a farming cocncept rather than an outdoor lifestyle that has existed since the beginning of time. If you want to , in the name of hunting, turn it into some kind of competition with how you can bypass reality to manipulate, futilly, and attempt to control 'your' deer's size and antler configuration, as if that is all that matters, knock yourself out! But , don't denigrate thos eof us who hunt old school and care more about the overall , long range benefit and effect of practicing moderate control measures(the original QDM concept before the bigger the better, and don't tell us it's wrong, cause we can crowd tried to take over) If high fence hunting ,and raising and farming is the future, I'll stay in the past!I take mature bucks and allow younger deer to 'walk', but I won't fault a man that simply gets a thrill out of taking a spike. I will celebrtae the day that I take a 'trophy class' buck, because he will have gotten that way through the natural process rather than 'deer steroids' and ridiculously unnatural 'management' practices. BTW, I regularly do take , in a part of my state that is not known for 'trophies', deer in the 110-130' class. I have regular sightings of 150" class deer, and saw 2 last year and had a 180 class nontypical within bowrange that didn't present a shot. Do I feel less of a hunter because I diudn't 'close the deal'? No! Will I feel superior to someone else that never sees or takes these kinds of animals when I finally do No!?I'm still thrilled with any buck, that I have taken under my 6 point or better self induced standard.But, I don't force othersto have to follow my guidelines, and neither should you or anyone else.The only standards that you or I need to worrry about with regards to others is keeping within the laws of the area we hunt.