as i posted before i joined buckmasters for life back when it started around 86 or so. back then it was pretty much the only deerhunting only club that concentrated on bowhunting. anyway this thread has caused me to start looking more closely at what they are actually printing. this cracks me up and buckmasters should choose their material a bit more carefully. this months issue has a story in it entitled "the grandpa deer". this lady during the illinois shotgun season...you know illinois, the land of the huge corn fed 300 lb whitetails. well this lady shot a "sika" deer during a whitetail hunt. sika deer average between 60 and 100 lbs on the hoof and look like a cross between a billygoat and an elk. the caption next to her pic of the deer says she's not quit sure what she's holding, and several days passed before she found out it was a sika deer. buckmasters makes it out to be one of the neatest cases of mistaken identity that they've ever seen. the authorities said that it was probably a captive deer that escaped and went unreported because it was illigal to import non-native species. the lady tagged it which by law she didn't have to do the article said. but it just gets me that she shot it because she thought it was a whitetail, and it looks like a minature elk. i can't believe they printed this story about mistaken identity and didn't say that anything was wrong with that. what if it had been a couple of mischeivious kids that strapped antlers to the family dog? mistaken identity is mistaken identity plain and simple. if it looks out of the ordinary you don't shoot. and if you publish a magazine you certainly don't glorify someone who doesn't identify their target!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!