RE: Is the obsession to shoot big bucks corrupting bowhunting?
I liken it to golf
There is a way to play golf. There are written rules, there are unwritten rules.
If you go out and play golf, and you hit into the brush off the tee, you don't get a "mulligan". You don't get "an extra ball". You don't have a ball in the rough and "nudge" it out onto the fairway. You don't cheat strokes.
Now, you CAN do all the above. And have fun doing it. But it aint golf. You're playing your own little made up game that looks an aweful lot like golf - but it isn't really golf.
You can go to a high fence ranch, have a little "canned hunting", grow your own big bucks, super size them bad boys, buy the best breeder bucks, keep that doe to buck ratio in line, yada yada yada and in the end boys ? You aint playing the game fair.
And you know it