ORIGINAL: Plus One
You know, I was sitting here eating pretzels and enjoying the tennis match until I read this one and for some reason it got to me.
ORIGINAL: HuntingBry
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Gary.....most guys in your camp don't want to talk. They want to cram their ideaology down everyone's throats. "Work together"??? Who's asking for help? I don't see anyone asking? I see a lot of "telling", though.
Jeff, while this may be true in many cases, I think that the "telling" is borne out of frustration. We all know that for a buck to reach trophy status it must be allowed to age. For those that want to hunt a trophy buck, but don't have the means to own land or access exclusive private property or leases, they have to try to work with other hunters. When their initial suggestion is met with, "I'll shoot what I want." they have to turn to trying to convince the others to see things their way. When this is met with resistance it causes preaching and animosity.
It's easy not to preach when you're not the trophy hunter, all you have to do is pull a trigger.
HuntingBry, I'm not trying to poke at you or anyone else on here, please don't take this personally, but its smarmy parting shots like this that will turn people off. If people are from the Brown/Down clan or QDM clan, it doesn't matter, you reap what you sow.
Ken
Ken, I definitely don't take it personally. The parting shot was meant to get a reaction, and it did. I'm not a trophy hunter, in fact, I have yet to shoot a P&Y class buck. I also don't push my agenda on others, but have seen what having a large population of "it's brown it downers" can do to a deer herd across a state, and it ain't pretty. In fact, my agenda is to shoot something bigger than my previous biggest which requires nothing from anyone but myself.
My statements were basically to say that a trophy hunter needs bucks to be let go to grow to their standards. Those that shoot anything legal are not restrained by anything but the law, so their actions are interfering with the trophy hunter's goals. While what they are doing is perfectly legal and there is nothing wrong with it, the trophy hunters get frustrated when they see tomorrow's trophy in the back of a pickup as an adolescent. I'm not saying it's not wrong to push others to stop doing something that makes them happy and is perfectly legal, because anytime you push your ideals on someone else it is wrong (that's what anti's are trying to do to all of us). I'm just saying I understand why they get frustrated.
Atlas, why don't you shut up and shoot a button buck.
Just teasing, good to see your paying attention.