I watch the show just for the sake of seeing beautiful deer. And they hunt deer in Texas totally differently then we do in Wisconsin. But it surely would be easier then how we have it.

We have an agreement with all the landowners around our leased land to not shoot young bucks. It lets them grow up to meet their potential whatever that might be (big racks or small racks). And we are seeing some pretty special deer on the land. It's fun to know there are some huge deer that you could get a chance at.

I get a kick also out of the body size of the deer and not just the rack. I would much rather take a nice 8-point 140 class bruiser that weighs 230 lbs. dressed then a 160 class Texas deer that might weigh 150 lbs. dressed. The northern (Canadian and northern USA state) bucks are something to behold when they get older. I've seen a 140 class buck being raised to weigh and his body length was so long they couldn't even get his feet off the ground. He weighed 269 lbs. dressed! Now that was a deer.

My retired BIL worked his whole life as a DNR technician and one year registered a deer that was just over a year old that would make the book. You don't have to feed them Tecomate stuff to have bucks get big.

Point of all this is people hunt differently in different areas and as long as it's not fenced in it's still hunting. We form our opinions from how we hunt in our state or province and anything else doesn't seem right. If hunting ever gets to the point we have to do it on preserves we have not bought licenses and supported our state game departments so they can provide us with public hunting land. Simple as that.

The western states now have license "draws" and huge license fees. They are going to elimate the average Joe from western hunts where it becomes cheaper to go on a local game preserve. And also hurt themselves.