It's amazing how much proof on this site alone has piled up showing that simply passing on some bucks makes it EASIER to not only see them but kill them as well.........It is a mystery why so many "trophy" hunters still cling to the lies about it being about the "challenge" of mature deer and so on
Logic dictates that a true "trophy" hunter that enjoys the difficulty and challenge of finding and killing that rarest of the rare buck would get more satisfaction out of making that chore harder......not easier.
Weird.............BTW I am not talking about you rybo.
What is weird is your failure to understand the logistics of hunting mature animals.
Here is a quote of mine from earlier in this thread.....
Just because theremay be a few theredoesn't makea mature animalany easier to kill, it just increases your probability of killing one. Hope you can make sense out of that, I know it must be a stretch.
I guess I was expecting to much for some of you guys to grasp anything other then your ownthoughts.
Bigj
I am going to have to just say I disagree with you and your blanket statements of QDM. Much of what you say about who practice QDMisignorant, unfounded and untrue in many cases.
Of all the people who say they practice QDM, I bet only 1/4 of them really do. Just passing bucks is not QDM as I have said already. It is that 3/4's who give QDM the TDM feeling andpeople who view things such as you something to complain about. When you include me into your blanket statements of QDM it is pure speculation and BS.
What you may fail to realize is in an area such as mine(and yours IL)you don't have to practice QDM to grow large bucks...... I do it because I can afford it and number 1, I enjoy being out there and doing the work. It gives me personal satisfaction. It makesmy hunts and harvests much more exciting knowing allI have done to make my land a better place for the deer and other wildlife. I would rather shoot a lesser scoring buck on my hunting grounds then somewhereI have no blood and sweat into.
If there is something worthwhile to discuss I am in, otherwise I am done with these petty arguments.