This isn' t a farm, or a ranch, or anything like that, so the question was irrelevant really.
It is relevant..........It reveals what you value more, a big rack or the satisfaction of knowing you worked your butt off for your trophy. Anyone can kill a huge buck on a farm if you have the money..........rack over hunt. Some people go to extremes that most would never even think of to obtain a monster.......hunt over rack. Your case is a little of both......the rewards of a great rack with a lot of the hard work taken care of because you know where they are already and the hunting pressure is limited by the tag draw........best of both worlds. They aren' t gonna jump in your truck themselves but if eastwood is right and his 2 buddies shot 200" deer then I would say you should be able to do the same. How many people leave the house at dark knowing that??
So if you would take a 200" on a farm over a 150" at your place you are strictly concerned with rack score.........and let' s be honest here, the only difference between your place and a farm is no fence right?? Both have deer grown specifically for racks as trophies with planned nutrition and mananged hunts.......only yours can get away if they run far enough...........to where there are no food plots and lots of hunters
Did you know that in the White Sands missle rangd in NM you can draw for an Oryx (gemsbok) tag ? Its $1500 (or was last time I tried drawing) but where else can you hunt free roaming oryx in the US ? Many people do not know that tag exists, doesn' t mean it isn' t there though.
My brother in law lives in Albequerque (sp?) and sends me Oryx steaks and javelina and Elk and whatever else he kills too much of LOL. I don' t really see what your point is.........I have no desire to travel the country in search of tags to hunt. I hunt where I live. The fact that I don' t live in the monster buck capital of the world doesn' t bother me. I hunt the land I have and based on what comes off that land year after year me and my family are very successful.........I am fine with that. I am not the kind of person that is always dreaming of greener grass. I make the best out of the cards I am dealt and don' t try and pretend I am somewhere I am not.
I didn' t pay to hunt this place
The tag was free??
for a small tag fee
I guess not
A lot of our lack of communication has come from our different understandings of what tags are versus licenses I think. Where I live you buy a license and depending on which one you get there are tags on it for a certain number of deer. You can also get 2 doe permits for designated areas if you wish. With this license any person can hunt anywhere that is public and you can fill every tag you have for that season then you are done.
If I have cracked your secret code...........I think you are saying that hunters don' t have a " license" so to speak where you are but the " tag" serves as a license to hunt. I' m sure you would need a license to get a tag but a license alone does not give you free roaming rights to every part of the state.
If I am wrong please correct me...........I wish you had explained it better early on as this whole blab fest could have been ten times shorter.
BTW the babe analogy is right on.........he just went in and bagged a different kind of trophy that' s all
One he could have desired and searched for his whole life and never even come close..........until he found a place where getting access is the hardest part. No pun intended
Dude, have fun......kill 10 of them if it makes you happy. If your happy, then I' m happy for ya. I just stated my opinion that I think killing a huge deer in a place where huge deer are common is well...........common, and therefore takes some of the WOW factor out of it. It' s just my opinion.......I' m not trying to force it on you or anyone. Just saying what I think that' s all.