ORIGINAL: GR8atta2d
The records are not tainted. Records are made so that others may break them. It doesn't diminish the success of the past. Be it a a camp record, a State record or an all time record, one can easily gage the previous achievement by the length of time it endured. As that window gets smaller (the length of time a record stands) on can see where Habitat, Genetics..etc contributed. This doesn't diminish a thing!
I agree with this, I don't think that the records are tainted. By looking at how many are entered each year and compared with the number of hunters, a 125" buck is still difficult to get. Sure there are more due to QDM, food plots etc., but they're still not a dime a dozen. A mature buck is simply more difficult to hunt. If they weren't, everybody would have them.