davidmil, Good post. I have read a few of the responses for and against. I have to agree with you what you say but like everything, things change. I hate to say it but when I was in college the one thing that drove me was getting a good job and being able to buy my own land. I have alot of time to hunt and I am able to dosome of the things that you dislike in your post. I am able to let deer walk by. Although I am more impressed with a big 200lbs 8point then I am a small bodied 200inch deer. I love to hunt and have great passion for it even though I don't hunt like like dad or my grandpa or even you. I don't think there are a great number of sportsmen that would hassle someone for shooting a small buck. At least I haven't seen that much of it. I would like to believe we(sportsmen) are a different kind of person.The feeling I got from your post was you feel people are spoiled. Sure there may be some that take things for granted but I believe it to be very few. I feel extremely lucky just to be able to hunt and just becauseI chose to or not to shoot a deer doesn't make my ungreatful. My dad hunted in the conditions you mention. My dad is as far from a QDM guy as you can get. He will shoot a small buck, a doe, a button buck but because he like to hunt. I am more then fine with that. He also admits that some of the efforts that I have done such as food plots have really made hunting fun again. He remembers the days where if you saw a buck it was a good season. Believe it or not I do give thanks for the way things are today even though I never hunted in the yesteryears. I don't think I am the only one out there. I am done making no sense now. Your veiw is respected though.