Originally Posted by
livcoop
It must be nice to have the option of choosing between shooting a mature or young buck. In Vermont if you don't shoot the first legal buck (2 points on one side) there is a decent chance you may not see another legal buck the rest of the season. We don't have the firearm option for does. Bow season and muzzleloader by lottery only.
That is not how it works for most of us. That is how it works on TV.
Most of us regular folks take that same chance of going home empty handed.
That is the price you pay to harvest the big boys.
I spend hundreds of hours in a tree from the time mosquitoes are swarming my face all the way through the time when I'm hunting in sleet,and freezing rain just on the hope that I get one chance.
Most of us don't just simply get to choose..... We pay the price to earn an opportunity.