It reveals what you value more, a big rack or the satisfaction of knowing you worked your butt off for your trophy.
Thats what you' re getting hung up on ... killing a buck in this place is just as difficult as it is elsewhere IMO, just the racks are bigger on the average deer and on a big deer much bigger. Why ? They are given the chance to get into the 4.5-5.5 and older age class.
.........and let' s be honest here, the only difference between your place and a farm is no fence right??
I thinks theres a much bigger difference, you might not - your perrogative.
My point on the Oryx is most people don' t even know that hunt is available to them. I didn' t know this hunt was to me until 2 years ago. Some of THE best hunting is not well known IMO.
I like my hunt. I like my yearly elk hunt, I like my whitetail hunts in KS. Its do it myself on a budget, no guides or anything like that. I do have to pay one guy a bottle of Old Charter to hunt his place though.
You buy a license in my state, and special tags are drawn seperately for special hunts.
I know if I have the chance at a 150" buck and get him, there' ll be nothing less about him that had he been a 100" buck just because he had the chance to grwo older and smarter. The hunt will not have changed that much, only the headgear that the bucks wear. IMportant ? Hell yeah it is. Is it why I hunt ? No.
BTW, I shoot a longbow