Here is the part that I don't understand...............I thought it was about the "challenge" and getting close to a elusive "mature" deer??

Read the posts on this page alone..........written by guys who say when they started hunting their land their were no big racked bucks.......for decades in some cases. Now that they don't shoot smaller ones and grow them bigger they are seeing bigger bucks all the time and shooting them on a regular basis. Seems to me it was more of a "challenge" to get a big buck when you weren't passing them up and all you have done is make it easier for yourselves.

Just proves what many people have said here 1,000 times............passing on younger bucks makes it easier to kill bigger bucks.......not harder.......which goes against what drives most big rack hunters (or so they say).......the "challenge" is decreased.......not increased.

Couldn't be a more clear case of it on this page alone........35 years of hunting with the number of "trophy" bucks taken and seen in the single digits........now multiple "trophy" bucks are killed each year and seeing a bruiser is a "given" during hunting season.

Now tell me again which scenerio makes it harder to kill a "trophy" buck??