RE: poll on quality deer management
My first 3 years of bowhunting I would shoot anything. I was just wanting to get my first deer with a bow. Well last year I harvested my first deer with a bow, a doe. This year after reading about QDM and figuring out that letting small deer go will only help out in the long run I decided to let small buck pass. Of course I only had 1 opportunity at a buch my first three years and after deciding to let them all pass this year I had the chance at 4 different bucks. One of them twice. I did manage to get a doe for some meat. So I guess I consider myself a trophy/meat hunter. Any deer is fun to kill for me. But if I'm gonna take a buck I want it to be a wall hanger!