Nonpardaid,

That recent Amish buck-do you know the one I'm talking about? He was no more free and able to escape the areathan my axis buck. Eventually he got tired and someone got him. It took the folks around him three years tofinish the job. But, they got him. Yep, he'll make the record book. But that "Frankenbuck" was doomed the moment the first set of eyes located him.

Give me a break,. How hard is it to pattern a buck, locate his core area (a place he spends his entire life), his bedding area, hang a tree stand and lay an ambush? He comes by trailing a doe in estrus and you wack him! His bedding area might be less than an acre! How hard is it to drive deer past posted hunters (as they do in Pennsylvania and else where)? Is that hunting or is that shooting? Stop for a second and reflect on your style of hunting. How many trail cameras do you scatter about the forest?
What, you can't get out there and find them on your own? Should I hold you in low esteem forplacing camera and tree stands?

I'm not trying to justify anything. My message was, has been and is "keep an open mind". I would hate to see you handcuffed to to a single philosophy. There's so much hunting out there-a heck of a lot more than just white-tailed deer. Take advantage of it when you can. Hunt your way and let me hunt mine-nothing more, nothing less!

For the record: The man that shoots the axis deer will make two record books that I'm aware of-if he so desires to enter his trophy.