ORIGINAL: rybohunter
Any of you guys fish? One of the biggestdevelopments to improve fisheries was the C&R movement. It was a long drawn out grassroots deal to get people to....heaven forbid, not kill every legal fish they caught. I view QDM and passing on bucks to be very similar. Someone has to spread the word to people to get a way of thinking to take hold.
Couple problems that I see with this analogy are that you can't toss a deer back..........also the C+R program was structured around keeping numbers of fish sustainable to generate interest in fishing.........in other words they just wanted there to be fish to catch.......It had nothing to do with satisfying the ego of guys who just wanted more bigger trophy fish to catch. Since slaughtering does goes hand in hand with QDM/AR......the two programs are working towards different goals.