I haven't read through all the post but I can explain how I am as a hunter. I hunt antlers and mass and its fair chase on public lands. I live in the Kootenai National forest and see deer, bear and the occasional moose comes by my kabin here. Four years ago I had the montana state record within 20 yrds for 10 minutes when I was hunting in a blizzard during the peak of the rut. I swear, it had more than 200"'s of mass. Maybe the law of average will catch up with me and it'll come back. Since then I have passed up on some of the biggest bucks than I have even harvested. For this reason, I'm eating my tag, its not because I didn't have the oppurtunity to fill it, its just that I didn't see a mature enough buck to tag. I also lost a lot of focus from deer hunting and chased some wapiti's across the state on different special hunts.
Even though tagless, the seasons priceless.

Bobby