Quote "I have yet to see any good reasons for an experienced hunter to harvest a young, small spike, forkhorn, button, or basket rack buck. "
You have recieved several answers to your question but have choose to ignore them.
Let me ask you a few:
Why is antler size so important to your hunting?
Can you see that it is not that important to alot of people?
I agree with most of your points (prob. all of them) but just don't think that others have too. What worries me about these threads is that alot of young people are on this site and get ripped for shooting something that is not big enough.
All this QDM is great for the big bucks but that is all it does is help produce big bucks. Healthy deer herds? Nature will take care of that? People argue about habitat man is destroying and justify more intrusion by man with QDM with this argument.
QDM takes a large amount of land to be effective. You can not effectively manage a deer herd without control over the land they are on. This ultimately ends up with a group of people controling this land and telling others what they can or can't shoot.
I think it is great that you and others have choosen to only shoot mature bucks, I won't argue that this leads to better genetics and healthier deer ultimately.
I think that sometimes in our search for the next bigger and better product we often lose sight of what our goal was at the start.
Enjoy the right you have to hunt and let everyone else enjoy thiers.
By the way this has been the best debate I have been in for awhile and while I don't think we will ever totally agree on this subject it is fun.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
<img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle>I have noticed that you are not responding to any of these arguments I have put in, whats up?<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
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