What some don't realize is that while we are all deer hunters, we don't all hunt for the same reason...

How many own their own land??? How many farm this land??? Who pays to hunt big bucks???

I guess some hunters lease land and hold out for 1-2 bucks a year and maybe a doe or two...

We own 3 family farms, about 850 acres...I'll tell you the easiest hunting you can do in our area is to sit over a soybean field in October or November with a scoped centerfire rifle...It's much easier than sitting over an area where corn has been spread...The second easiest way to hunt is to sit in a white oak ridge during those same months...

We kill 40-50 deer a year off these farms, if we don't the next year the soybeans and peanuts are decimated...

I could care less about killing a big buck...Seems some don't think you are a true deer hunter if antlers don't do it for you...I grew up on these farms and have hunted over 45 years...I also love to cook...When I see a nice year and a half old doe, I think of roasts, bbq, backstraps on the grill, tenderloins in gravy and smoking hams...

So...Who is the true hunter...The guy that pays to kill antlers or the guy that hunts so he can use the results of his labor??? Seems to me that hunters evolved because they wanted to eat what they killed...Native Americans burned brush to run game to shooters...They also ran buffalo off cliffs, so they could eat...

Anyone here want to claim they are a better hunter than the Native Americans???

Game laws came about to preserve the game that we here...As long as you are within the laws provided, you don't have to justify what you do to anyone...