ORIGINAL: Sylvan
Please explain to me why you think its bass ackwards.
Because imo natures way is to make the easiest kill and the mature buck would be the most difficult. Theoretically the inexperienced 1 1/2 year olds would even be easier than an adult doe. Probably not all doe but many would be older wiser and maybe even a little bigger and stronger.
But its not always that way in nature, as I stated earlierI have seen it with my own two eyes. Wolves are opportunistic, they will kill the sick and injured. But, that is not all they are killing. The average wolf eats around 17 deer per year. Of these 17 how many are sick or injured? I can't give an exact number, but not nearly as many as one would think.
Now as I stated in post #39, after the rut there are more sick, injured and run down mature bucks. In the natural world, the wolves being the opportunistic killers that they are, would be taking these bucks out of the herd. Therefore if we shoot the mature bucks we would be taking the place of the natural predator that no longer exists.
Does that make sense?