RE: Success = Controversy
I’ve not personally experienced any of those problems you describe. I wish I shot enough big bucks on a consistent basis to be called a jack lighter.
My observations from PA are that jacklighting & poaching big bucks is a common enough practice that it is easy to see how a legitimately successful guy could be looked at suspiciously. Also consider that your average PA hunter is a complete moron, in most places big bucks are few to none and said moron hunter couldn’t find a buck older than 2.5 if he was dumped on a property with 50 of them. So if someone does kill big bucks consistently they HAVE to be cheating, because the accuser can’t comprehend being that good of a hunter, and the only way he knows how bucks of that size are killed is by jacklighting.