ORIGINAL: atlasman
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.
How could any one have ever thought otherwise?
I don't think I've ever heard any one try to make the case they were letting the dumb ones pass so it would be harder to kill a big one? That's the whole point to growing more big ones and "letting them go so they will grow". It's crazy to even think there is any other reason than to allow a person who couldn't kill a big one when only the smartest deer had the chance to get big.