RE: Catch and Release Hunting? - 8/22/2005 8:54:52 PM









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immobilized the animal long enough for a photo-op, and you would then simply make sure that the deer recovered and climb back into the stand.[/blockquote]

i'm not a "trophy" hunter, my primary reason for killing a deer in the first place is to eat it, if its a "trophy" thats just a plus, and i have killed my share of decent deer,i'm sorry but this does not sound like avery practical plan, alabama's dnr is urgeing people to kill more, of course i guess that people that shoot them in pens, and drug them and have to be lead by the hand before "they" can kill one, this could work for them, other than that it sounds like somethinga tree hugger would come up with. "oh we could just let the deer go" don't think so.

btw this is how i like my season to work

bow hunting, i will shoot the first thing i see, by this time of year i am running low on deer meat, we use it in place of ground beef 75-90% of the time, i will try to kill 3-5 does with my bow, since our buck/doe ratio is so out of wack, if a nice buck comes by more the better, at the start of m/l'er season if i have had a dry bow season i'll go for the first deer i see most times, if its a buck more the better, rifle season, i hunt so many different pieces of property some hold some good deer 100+", others just hold little basket rack 6 pointer and the like, i like to kill a buck, and i will take a small buck or whatever, when i've done all these things i will only hunt (if i have not killed something bigger in the other hunts)for a "trophy" and i don't need to see him on the ground to know he is a "trophy". i hold out for 125-130+" deer for this,an average season for me is 5-7 deer i have killed as few as 2, and as many as a bunch[:-], all legal btw. but putting them to sleep for a camera op does not appeal to me.