ORIGINAL: Monster Bucks only
There are deer hunters and then there are deer killers.
Deer hunters care about the deer herd more than about killing deer. Deer hunters mature as they gain experience and grow past the point where they have to KILL every dink buck that they can to pacify their fragile egos. Deer hunters realize that the herd needs to be controlled and the way to do this is by shooting does rather than the easiest deer in the woods, a dink buck. Every deer hunter went through a phase early in his career when killing deer was important and in most cases a few dinks fell. Some people mature past this phase and others remain kill-mongers.Deer Hunters have ethics that go beyond what the law allows. Deer Kill-mongers use the law as an excuse for their actions. There are deer hunters and then there are deer killers. Some deer killers will grow out of it and some will not. That is simply a shame. We are all at various stages as hunters and all have different goals. Sadly for some their goal never changes - to simply kill something everytime they head to the woods. They think they are real hunters but havent a clue how far from it they really are. Hmmmm
Oh ... and for the record I hereby crown GregH as the ultimate authority on deer hunting .... along with the guy that started this thread .... and if they have another opening on their committee, I nominate myself as well. :^) ha ha ha
This is by far one of the more off the wall comments I have read yet! Here is a clue......we are ALL deer killers!
Do you really expect me to believe that you NEED to kill a deer to survive? So please spare me your decent to others who choose to shoot and KILL what they want, when they want to. Everyone who is on this site hunts for pure pleasure. Sure we enjoy the meat but we don't depend on it. If that was the case then you have no business owning a computer and spending money monthly for an ISP when you could use that money to feed your family, so get real.
You want to hunt big antlered deer and does only....good for you but don't piss in my ear and tell me it's raining saying you do it for "the health of the herd" you do it so you can make easier to kill big antlered deer.
You expect me (and others) to believe that just because you hunt only large antlered deer and does that you are some kind of true hunter????
Because others chose to kill a younger buck they are just killers??
I don't know why I even wasted my time responding to this post.