I do O.K. with a rifle myself, but I hunt hard. I don't even go out the first 2-3 days of the gun season. Two years in a row I did not even see a doe the first two days of rifle season, even with 30-40 hunters moving around on the mountain. Compare that to the guys that passed up smaller bucks during bow season to kill a big one in their back yard. We can't all have our little private preserves. One year I was dragging one out (Over 2 miles, I know because we were able to drive down the tracks years ago) and two guys near the road stopped to talk. The deer I had was beat up, one side of the rack broken off, and these clowns start down grading it and telling me about two deer they shot in Illinois that year. It is quite a feat to kill a deer on that mountain the second week by sneaking around. A lot tougher than killing one with a bow at a pay to hunt place. About the only people I know that support fence hunting are fence hunters and operation owners. Even poachers have to put some thought and effort into what they do.

The end of hunting started when it became a business, just like any other sport. There has been a lot of high profile pro hunters busted in the last 10-15 years. It has become a money racket.