RE: Clarification please.
I read all this stuff about QDM and it all sounds good as long as you have control of enough land to make it work and all hunters work together for it but I don't know of any places like that here in WV. I enjoy deer hunting and it's my goal to put 5 or 6 deer in the freezer every year. I hunt with a bow, a high powered rifle and an inline muzzleloader and I enjoy them all. I took 2 does and a racked buck with my bow, a racked buck with my 270 and another racked buck with my muzzleloader........all legal here in WV. I also passed up on 2 smaller bucks which would have been legal to take. Although I'm proud of the bucks I got, there not as big as a lot of the bucks I see pics of on here. The biggest of the 3 might score 110. I hunt an area of about 150 acres along with 3 or 4 other guys and I have no control of what they take nor do I care and they feel the same way. We do make a concentrated effort not to shoot button bucks. All this being said, I say to each his own as long as it's legal. Life's too short to get hung up on antler size. Just hunt and take what you can use and no more. By the way, I usually take more does than bucks. WV has put in a 3 buck limit for the 2005 season and I think this will help.