Back in the early '90s a friend of mine told me that he read somewhere that deer hunting stirred up jealousy more than most other sports. This friend is a great deer hunter and taught me a lot about hunting for mature bucks. He's taken over 20+ P&Ys and never entered any of them. If you didn't know this guy, you'd never even know that he was a deer hunter. Although we didn't hunt together much, we'd always help each other track and recover our deer. We also worked at the same company. The reason we were talking about jealousy was because of some talk going around about how we got our deer. You know....we shot them at night, illegally baited, trespassed etc. None of it was true, we didn't really even know these guys. We worked at the same place as them but never hung around with them. How could they know what we did? We would always congradulate people's deer no matter what size and be happy for them.

Why does this happen?