Good post bowdacious, I do not call myself a trophy hunter by any stretch of the imagination, when you have the deer numbers we have where I hunt I feel you are hurting the entire herd by not thinning them out. I do let fawns walk and until the day I have no venison in the freezer it has to be a mature buck before I will take him, I messed up last year and killed a 4 point that I thought was a doe, saw the whole body, no antlers I thought, heck his antlers were pinky thick and barely to the top of his ears.

Bowdacious hunting, be it bow, blackpowder, or gun is fun, it is not a contest for me, makes for some meat in the freezer though.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club