Interesting info 2Arrows! I sure hope they start giving those kind of clubs the boot. Only problem is those guys will just go somewhere else and do the same thing. Actually, if they got kicked off they'd probably have a hard time finding anything else to lease. You know how hard that is around here. Those guys should just grow up and practice even mild QDM for a couple years and they'd be shocked at how their deer herd would get better. I'm fed up with people that don't give a crap about anything but filling their tags. I'll admit I'm a trophy hunter, no doubt. I want the big racks and I'm willing to go buckless to let the young one's grow. Heck I haven't shot a buck sind '98 because I just keep letting the young ones walk, wating on that big one. However, even if you claim to be a "meat hunter" you should still be willing to let the young bucks walk for pure management reasons. If all you want is meat, go shoot a doe! What people don't understand is how out of whack the buck/doe ratio is and how too bad it is for their to be so few mature animals in the herd.
It's just like catch and release fishing, it's a simple concept and it works!

Ok I'll get off my soap box.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> Good luck with IP and your future hunting club!

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Hunting the Piney Woods of Deep East Texas.