DoubleA:
Don't want to get to deep here and this is just MY opinion. In those area's where you have little or no puplic land.....You have no more honest trophy's in my opinion.
I know we could get into the debate about the square mile of public in the middle of low fenced private.
Times are changing and so should the criteria for the honest (WILD) trophy.
I don't know......... When I think of a trophy book animal I picture a guy out in the public woods scouting and hunting hard trying to get that monster the community has been trying to harvest for years.
Not the guy who waits for hunting season to drive his ATV to his heated stand in the middle of his food plot.
I don't put much stock in record books anyway. I use them as a tool for genetics in a certain area that has lots of puplic land. Which as you stated is a shrinking commodity.
Just my opinions of course and we could devote a whole site to the issue.[:-]