I don't agree with it as it has become antler management and not herd management. If people want to practice it on their own property that is fine but I echo the other sentiments that I don't want it shoved down my throat. I don't think it is fair for me to try to dictate what other hunters think and shoot so I can increase my chance at a big buck. I think CharlieP summed it up pretty good.

I didn't know much about QDM. A few marathon threads last year so I did some research. In its purest form I think it is a good thing. How can you argue with a healthier deer herd? What I don't like is that it is being used as a facade to try to grow trophy whitetails. I would have a lot less problems with it if people wouldn't lie about the ultimate goal. Wouldn't be as easy to feed that goal to the public and general hutning population however.

There was an article in Field and Stream last year when the QDMA arguments were taking place. The article was on a hunting club in the south, very exclusive and expensive. Deer were fed and watched, they knew every buck on the place, they knew their age, etc. If you shot a buck under a certain age and size you were penalized within the club. Went on to discuss how the QDMA had really paid off and the club members were now shooting huge whitetails in an area not known for them. Thepresident of the QDMA was quoted in the article as saying that this hunting club represented the pinnicle of QDMA and what they were trying to accomplish. This was their poster child for all the world to see. Wasn't alot of press about does and balanced herds and healthy deer.

Were it about the deer and not the horns I would be more supportive.