I just don' t see how you can sit there and expect people to believe that it isn' t easier to kill a huge buck where you are going then in most places the average Joe gets to hunt. If it wasn' t easier everyone would have a buck like that on the wall. If it is easier then it logically would be less exciting and rewarding.......like climbing to the top of a mountain.........but you started half way up.
And there you go, that is what you are not getting. A better example would be you climbing the biggest mtn in NY and me climbing the biggest mtn in my state (my mtns being bigger because of geography) and you saying my accomplishment isn' t as great as yours because your mtns just aren' t as big. Right ?
..........you should at least understand on some level how your situation can be viewed the same way from the outside...........
What outside Atlasman ? I hunt public land, I do not have a lease in my home state. I DO find the out of the way places, the special permits, the military bases and the bowhunting onl areas ... something a lot of hunters like you I think do not. Jay Hunter said
" And I can guarantee you if you do your research on special draw permits in NY, you' ll find more than one area that that applies to. I know its not in your blue hunting regulations book you picked up from the town clerk' s when you bought your liscense, but there out there, several being in bow only areas(hint!, hint!).
Did you read that ? Do you think he' s lying ? The opportunity of special draws for special hunts is in almost evry state if not every state.
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Geez, I wonder what you' re getting at?? I should feel less excitement and satisfaction killing a deer with a compound then you get out of killing one with your longbow right??
Thats EXACTLY my point. I won' t belittle your kills because you choose use high tech equipment thats easier than my choice of weapons. I would not post to your buck kills " well, for a compound its nice, but you' d get more respect if you' d shot it with a Bodark branch, cane shafts and obsidian head." You seem to think maybe its only about the area and quality of bucks there. I submit that its NOT only about that. Its about how you hunt and what you hunt with too. I' ll pass more quality racked bucks in KS these next 7 days than I' ll see in my home state all year. Choice, making the hunt harder for me. Whereas you might shoot the first spike that comes through, some hunters wait and wait for the larger bucks - its all choice.
BTW - your home state of NY has many more big bucks than mine as a general rule. Your deer are a sub-species thats just plain bigger because you' re much farther north. Does that take away from your kills ? No, not at all. Kill the best bucks your area has to offer - and you' ve done something. If its 120" great, if its 220" great too. Me ? I' ll take the 220" anyday over the 120" though if I get the choice.