ORIGINAL: Schultzy
I consider myself a so called trophy hunter I guess. I only shoot bucks that meet my limitations (130+ and up) or I'll shoot an older buck that has no decent looking genetics. Its not to often I get my buck I'm after and usually I'll shoot a doe or doe fawn in its place but not a young buck.
How is this not QDM? I've taken 4 times the doe's then bucks!
It is, but....in the overall realm, unless you or I (and I hunt the same way you do as far as what I'll harvest) own a thousand acres or MORE, we really can't accomplish what QDM biologi$t$ recommend. To us, it's QDM, but to the biologists, it's trophy hunting.
Jim,
I'll buy that vehicles kill a LOT of deer, but I'm sure that the number of deer killed by hunters vs. vehicles is significantly more in OH. I think hunters have killed over 200K deer each of the last 4 yrs, I'm pretty sure there haven't been 800K vehicle/deer collisions in that time. Can't speak for other states, but I'm pretty sure OH doesn't have more MV killed deer than hunter killed deer.