Since I' m already mud here, I' ll go even further and say what I really think about this. What I' d like to know, if Beatty had taken that buck with an old Bear Whitetail Hunter, would there be any of this outrage over the rule? Of course not. But he took it with a Mathews (hmmm... Matt McPherson AGAIN) and the Mathews cult has gone bonkers over it. And those of you not in the cult have fallen into formation and goose stepped right along with them.
Classic example of what turns me off about this entire P&Y letoff issue! The Beatty buck is an awesome display of a true monarch of the whitetail buck! But yet , because he (Beatty) wasn' t in compliance with P&Y rules , the buck isn' t recognized. This is where I draw the line! How is this respecting the animal?