Howler, I don' t remember Chuck ever doing anything that didn' t have a little kickback for his own wallet. But, he' s making a living at it so more power to him. What manufacturers is he working for these days and what are they trying to sell?

M.R. James, well, maybe he' s on the up and up about it. Alterior motives are pretty easily disguised and I' m not the blindly trusting sort. He' s a voting P&Y member and I' m not, so I don' t count. I just hope he and the others of like mind listen to the people that are in favor of leaving well enough alone.

As far as membership, if they change the rules and start allowing animals taken with anything that shoots an arrow they could pick up even more members. Do you think if they did relax the standards that they' d pick up as many members as they potentially stand to lose?

Also, when you start relaxing the standards, then you lose prestige. That' s why the Buckmasters world records don' t mean diddly compared to P&Y. If those records did mean as much, then everybody and their dog would be entering their animals in Buckmasters, P&Y would be totally irrelevant and we wouldn' t even be having this discussion.

But P&Y is NOT irrelevant, we ARE having this discussion and I hope they keep things as is so they don' t become irrelevant.