Originally Posted by
Oldtimr
I don't know who you think lumped you in with high fence hunters but I certainly missed it. This would be the only post I saw that could be construed to include you, and frankly it did. It certainly didn't indicate you hunted high fence. "There are a couple of others here that target huge racks, however while they talk about it, I have never seen them denigrate others who don't hold back on a smaller buck for their benefit".
Hey I saw that and figured I was included in that and I do appreciate that. However you have in fact used phrases that include me and lumped them right in with these other things like I pointed out earlier in this thread.
"those who covet big antlers" well that is me I covet big antlers. you lumped that phrase right in with killing sport hunting and hunting for the sake of the enjoyment of hunting.
I hope you can see "those who covet big antlers" is far to broad of a term and includes way to may good people....As well as the term "trophy hunting"
The only time you will see me telling people what to shoot/not shoot is when I get the impression that a big boy is what THEY want. I will sometimes encourage people not to prematurely hang their tag on something that is not what they really want.
I run a hunting operation and have zero restrictions. The people that hunt my properties have the opportunity to hunt the deer THEY want as deer of all ages and sizes are there but they have to do it themselves. I give suggestions and ideas but I do not hunt the deer for them.