Watching TOC this morning, the guy shoots a very nice 8pt, 130-140 class deer. He proceeds to say "I didn't get the trophy I was after, but this management buck will have to do".[:@]

Since when did a 130-140 class deer become a management buck? THATS A FREAKING TROPHY IS MOST AREAS OF THIS COUNTRY>

I think we hunters are getting too obsessed with bone these days. Unless you happen to live in Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsic, etc, odd are you will never see a deer over 160 in you life, much less actually harvest him. These pukes making all these videos on the fenced in ranches are slowly changing the perceptions of what a trophy deer is. Also, every hunt you see is in Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, IL, I feel it gives a lot of hunter a false sense of what they realisticly expect to see while hunting.

I remember when any buck was a "trophy" with a bow. Now, it seems if you don't make P&Y, you don't have a trophy.

Hunting mags and vidoes are doing to us hunters what the TV and fashion mags do to women, giving unrealistic expectations.

Don't get me wrong, I like killing nice bucks as much as the next guy. But, I wonder if I have set unrealistic goals for myself. I've let some really nice bucks walk, only to not fill a tag, waiting on what, may or may not even really be out there in my neck of woods.

Holler if ya here me............