Unfortunately, there are people in the world that will alwayschoose the easiest way of achieving a goal.Just as people in PETA willmutilate an animal to show how sadistic we are. There are "hunters" who just want a big rack, skull, hide etc.on the wall, andwill pay any price to get itthere. We are not special, or immune, to the morals, or in this case the immorals, of modern society. People cheat, lie and steal everyday. It hurts us when it hits this close to home. We consider hunting a privilege and we know any privilege can be taken away.
Perhaps the scariest part of all this is how it may taint our record books. It's only a matter of time before some farm raised deer somehow becomes the new #1 Whitetail in the world. Someone will sneak it in..it will happen! We've (collectively speaking)been lucky so far and have caught a few that have tried. We all marveled at the pics of Golaith and the other home grown monsters. There are others we have not heard of, perhaps no one has, except the breeder. He releases it and harvests it and then boom..instant celebrity!

So I guess what we as ethical hunters have to do is keep our voice heard and let the sponsors and tv channels and maybe in a bigger sense the non-hunting community know that we police our ranks. This is something we must do as a hunting community, this is where we put aside our petty indifferences such as rack hunter vs meat hunter etc. We can still have out internal discussions about these topics but the note that should ring the loudest is that We are Hunters, we are proud, and will will fight for our heritage of Hunting Fair Chase.