ORIGINAL: Arthur P

I don't know the full situation of what's going on with this piece of property. Don't really care. It's up to the landowners to decide what to do about it, or about someone who's trying to stir up trouble. But what manuman posted about QDM in general pretty much coincides with my view of it.

What most QDM fanatics don't seem to understand is there are a whole bunch of people who actually have a life outside of deer hunting. Who don't spend each and every spare waking moment sitting in a treestand, or scouting or planting food plots, pouring over photo dosiers from multiple trail cams or slobbering over whitetail hunting magazines. These people might get only one or two chances to get away from job and family commitments to go hunting every season. Wouldn't you say this describes the vast majority of hunters?

Most of these folks hunt legally and ethically, go out and do their very best with their limited opportunities to get within range of a deer. Who the heck are you to dictate to them they can't take a legal animal, probably the only one they'll have a chance at this season, simply because that deer won't pass YOUR minimum maturity standards?

When that guy takes that small basket buck, instead of shaking his hand and congratulating a fellow hunter on his good fortune, you act like he's just raped your grandmother. And in the next breath you wonder why hunter numbers are declining. It's called elitisim, fellas.