No offense, but this sounds like a regurgitation of an article that ran very recently in a bowhunting mag.

I personally no longer get any sort of thrill or enjoyment out of shooting small bucks. I knew it was time to become a trophy hunter after killing my last average buck. I really did not get any sort of thrill or charge out of it. I killed it on autopilot, and it meant very little to me. After deciding to hunt for a P&Y or nothing, the excitement came back. I had a goal, and I had a lot of enjoyment watching bucks and taking does for the freezer.

Trophy hunting is not possible for many people, especially if you hunt public areas or areas that receive a lot of pressure. Some areas simply don't have the genetics and/or nutrition to produce numbers of large deer. I live in northern Missouri, and belong to a hunting lease with 250,000 acres in the three-state area. For me it makes sense.

MOCraig