ORIGINAL: TXhighrack
Atlasman
Personally I dont worry about the "challenge" to much.
At least you are honest.
When I go hunting, killing A mature buck is nota hard thing to do
Wow........there are a lot of people here that disagree with that. Once again..........thanks for being honest.
But the "challenge" comes and the excitement comes when you try to find that ONE special buck. He might be the highest scoring buck on the ranch, he might have a drop tine, he might have alot of trash, he might be a huge 8 pointer, or any number of things that interest you and makes you want to hunt that deer.
I understand what you're saying but I hope you are not offended when I say that sounds a lot more like "farming" then "hunting".........sort of like picking out the nicest pumpkin or christmas tree in the lot.
I am NOT knocking it........it's just worlds different then anything I have come to love about hunting. If I grew up in your area I would be embracing your style as well I am sure........I doubt I would ever try and pressure others to follow my lead but that is a different story
I remember back in college we would go out on some of the biggest and best known ranches in the region doing deer captures. We would have helicopters out there, the gunner would net the deer and the students would take information and data from them etc. Each year we caught several hundred bucks. I think we caught about 2000 bucks by the time I got out of college andI bet we didnt catch more then 50 bucks that would break the 160" mark, and keep in mind we where on the best ranches in the state I mean these places where getting $10-$20,000 for a 5 day deer hunt. Just these deer captures alone prove how hard and rare a true trophy buck is,.......
That was then............I don't know your age but I would guess that today's world of "growing" deer via nutritional supplements would have those figures skewed differently.