Holy hypocrisy now everybody is the victim.

These guys have went on about how trophy hunting is ruining hunting, fueling the anti's etc. yet claim they don't try to tell others how they should do it or what they should hunt.

Then on the other side you have guys that "do it for the challenge" but are also mad because its not easier?

I kill 4 or 5 deer a year usually. Generally I kill a yearling and eat it almost entirely fresh(never been frozen), I kill 2 or 3 adult does and 1 or 2 mature bucks.

I love to hunt mature bucks but the whole reasoning for that would be lost if everybody else just let them go. That is the whole point. I want to hunt the elusive animals......the ones that are big and old because they are hard to hunt. Isn't that the whole point of a trophy or are we getting into the adult era where people were raised when all the kids got a trophy?

I don't care if you let them go or not because I want the one you couldn't get not the one you let go. The rarity is half of the appeal.

As far as the meat hunter side you lumping me in with these people that hunt high fences and those who waste the meat is akin to me lumping you in with those who shoot doe out the truck window and drive off. It is you that fuel the anti fire by giving these crazies a bigger platform and trying to stuff "trophy hunting" all into one box or at the very least not specifying that what you are really talking about is an extreme minority of the hunters that waste the animal. The phrase trophy hunting has become way to associated with wasting meat when that is very rarely the case and it is you that is to blame for that not me.

I have never wasted an animal by choice, I have never hunted behind a fence, and I have never paid somebody else to do the hunting while I pull the trigger and I am a trophy hunter.

That is what a trophy HUNTER is. Find something else to call the people doing the stuff we all disapprove of and if you want a challenge hunt for bucks other people can't get instead of expecting them to let them go for you.