I agree, with a lot of you guys, not really thinking the staging system fits my style of hunting or the "level of maturity," I am personally at in regards to deer hunting. No change it to ELK hunting, and I'm a definite STAGE 1, but as far as whitetail hunting goes, I'm like several others here, a combination of 3,4,5. I also think we change a little during seasons, from season to season, from place to place. I've hunted places where the landowner wanted animals killed, therefore I was a brown is down hunter per owner request, and I've hunted places where the landowner didn't want us killing anything but MATURE deer.