ORIGINAL: Big Duane

I've seen three type of replies

A) no, hunters who hunt to shoot animals and they aint that picky. Meat hunters, or just enjoying a nice hunt and a buck tag filled.

B) yes, and attaching that "yes" with a game management plan specifying astandardthey have

C) hunting mature animals because of the challenge


Now, the thread I mentioned ...... theSpider bull, that monster non-typical utah bull that is causing all the hype.Because he's drawing every outfitter's attention, he's got guys camping on him every night, every way possible is being set in motion for a guy to fly in first day of season and shoot him ....... I suggested the Utah G&F tranqulize the bull, and lop his antlers off to the 4th points.

what would that accomplish? Same old smart bull, same mature animal to hunt, the "loss" of inches of antlers to the guys on that thread was just absolutely something some of them couldn't fathom.

why ?

because it aint about the challenge of hunting mature animals, its about net inches

few guys who are "trophy hunters" have said they'd shot Spider bull with half his rack missing.

my question is why wouldn't you ? same old smart bull - the hunt changes not one single bit with part of a rack missing right ?