Certainly!
However,I do see both sides and respect both points of view. It really is a matter of choice. I aways said if I ever shot one big enough to make the book I would quit hunting. <img src=icon_smile_clown.gif border=0 align=middle> Years later it happened and I had to eat my words.<img src=icon_smile_blush.gif border=0 align=middle>
I used to think it honored the animal but I have second thoughts about that now. Unless it is a world record there are no pictures, and no deer names like Rudolph, Dohner, and Blixen to render honor to... just a few numbers, kill location by county & state, and the hunters name. I see no glory in it for the animal. If you want to do that mount the horns or head on your wall. So far my bucks that are in the book and a few more that qualify are suspiciously silent on this issue. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>
That being said I do think we need organizations like P&Y and others that help hunters unite and be heard.
As far as the let-off rule goes. There are a lot of bows out there that are P&Y legal. For the sake of time I won't go into it now but there is a big difference between "effective let-off" and "AMO let-off". In addition as with a couple of my bows, when the let-off wasn't P&Y legal I ordered a 65% module to make it legal.
For those who wrestle with the question of adjustable let-off (was it set on 65% or wasn't it?), poached bucks, finds claimed as kills, etc. I can only say that those people have to live with themselves. As long as I am not being affected spiritually, financially, and/or physically, I don't worry about anyone else's character but me and mine. I can't control that anyway, to thine ownself be true.
I consider it an honor to have taken bucks that are in and qualify for P&Y, but that is where it ends. I don't view it necessarily as a testament to my hunting skills or male prowess. This is not rocket science and we are not curing cancer here. We are simply participating in a pastime we love, and if we do everything right (and even sometimes when we don't), we might get lucky. <img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>