I tell you guys who pay for these bucks are NOT hunters, they are NOT sportsman, and I for one do not want to be affiliated with them in any way, shape or form
I agree 100%! These kind of things are happening because way too many hunters are becoming obsessed with antlers. Hunting is no longer a simple, enjoyable pastime that could also provide some meat for the table. I hear novice hunters talk about how they are holding out for that 140" buck and such. This is nuts! They maybe have a deer or two under their belts and now they think they are supermen holding out for the type of bucks they see shot on the TV shows. What real difference does it make other than having something to brag to your hunting friends how big a deers antlers are? Any non-hunter friend could care even less about it, and probably would have a good laugh at how stupid hunters can be in spending so much money just to shoot a deer behind a fence. It's all really pathetic, to say the least. Besides, with all these game farms, any record sized deer that is claimed to be shot in fair chase will automatically be suspect from now on. When trophies were shot years ago, we knew for sure that they weren't these genetically altered deer from game pens because such places didn't exist. These days there is no telling what some greedy hunters are capable of doing just to get their names in the P&Y or B&C record books.