RE: Is the obsession to shoot big bucks corrupting bowhunting?
I myself would also agree with the rest of you. Why is it that you hardley hear of any pros shooting a fork or a small 6 or spike when they have then right in front of them a perfect shot, then a nice bick 10-14 pointer will comeout and theyll take a shot and screw it up. Yet part of me also has to disagree. This year there are 3 of us that hunt 300 acres and with the amount of does and fawns we had last year, some of you remember my horror stories, we have decided to take only 130 class or higher bucks this year and we must have them mounted. In the past we have been harvesting too many young bucks that had great potential. No more. We know we have some really nice bucks on our property, now its time to work for the big ones. The only we time we are allowing ourselves to shoot any cullbucks is in the last few days of the archery season, during the gun season we are going to take anything withantlers 5 points or more. We beileve pacing our our management isgoing to help out our herd and allow for bigger healthier bucks and give us the sucess that we are looking for. 52 days left till opening season, that reminds me, I have to put out another 20 lbs of mineral at one of my stand sites, the deer have gone trhough 60lbs of mineral in a matter of 3-4 weeks.