[:'(]Good point Huntinwv: But I don't believe we should allow for technology in terms of the method for dispatching the animal. Again using the MLB analogy-the game's technology has changed a bit. But a bat is still made of wood. If they started allowing titanium bats or somesuch then they would have to change the record books to reflect the increased ease of hitting those bats might reward. So too I think that records should be analogous to the type of weapon used. Recurve vs. compound etc. So there is a world record for each category. That would be the ultimate-and I thought they did that already ..no? If they don't they should. Because anyone who has shot both types of bows no there is a big difference in skills and strength involved. Same with long bows. The weapon should be a seperate category for a different record when appropriate. As for me I could give a dang. I drew a doe tag this year and if I fill it with a nice fat mature doe-that will be all the record I need. So far, my wife thinks I'm the cat's meow cuz I have never not got a deer since she's known me. And only one of those years did I not get an elk (knock on wood). My pals and I don't go hunting to sit around and drink and spend time scruffin about. We are all dead serious and very tenacious toward getting meat in the freezer. The last two years, I didnt get my deer until the last day of two 4 day hunts and man, I was sweatin it. I had my bro drop me off at the top of a 4 mile long canyon with a road the skirted its top. at 9AM that last day. I worked that canyon slowly with my bro waiting for me at the bottom. Well, I was pretty sad as I had about 1/4 mile to go (and could see the truck) when all of a sudden a pinto colored whitetail jumped up from some tall grass and ducked into a hollow in the canyon floor. That rascal thought he was hidden but his upper body and head was framed by the bushes in the hollow directly dowwnhill from me at about75 yards. Boom that was it. Dragged heim the remaining 1/4 mile to the car. A very similar scenario happened the year before. And the same with the last elk. There aint a wholr lot of give up in my group. Especially when my buddies are already harboring.they all call me crunch time now.