PY,

My complete respect! If hunting were easy, you probably wouldn't do it. I totally respect your conservation efforts and the degree of difficulty you have applied to your hunting. There's nothing wrong with your thinking...

None of us should frown upon record books, they fill a very important roll in the conservation and preservation field. If you think about it, without them, we wouldn't have a lot of the hunting opportunities we have today. I completely support SCI-not because I want to see my name (I admit it happens and I feel good), but rather to give back to the support of wildlife and our hunting endowment. Please do look into SCI's World Hunting Award Program. It challenges hunters on an unbelievable level. You compete against nobody but yourself. Horns and inches are a very small part of the over all framework. It's a great program which allows you to give back and feel happy about doing so!