We don't intentionally kill BB
Oh, someone else pulled the trigger did they? EVERY deer kill by a hunter is intentional. You could describe it more correctly by saying that you didn't care enough to take the time to determine what you were shooting beyond the fact that it was a deer or you decided in advance that it didn't matter if you killed some BB's as long as you got to shoot something. i think the answer is in the rest of your statement....
we simply decided that it was necessary to harvest any legal deer in order to control the herd because we were not getting the opportunity to harvest mature doe.
OK you believed were doing the right thing to control the herd........... but wait, aren't you the spokesman for those who believe Alts OWDD goals are way too low? I guess that only applies to other people.
I'm beginning to get the picture now....
There is no real incentive for us to protect BB since we will just be saving them for someone else to harvest.
Translation: the good of the resource means nothing to us. We'd better get ours before someone else does.
[quote] We'll take a buck if one happens to walk by, but we aren't going to be on stand an hour before shooting time with the hopes of getting a buck. Bucks simply aren't as important when you are 60 compared to when you are 20+.
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Translation: My sport is no longer worth much of my time or effort and Alt's making it harder for me.
What you can't seem to comprehend is that the average hunter doesn't want to go 6 or 7 years without harvesting a buck, just so the buck he does havest is one year older.
Translation: Our group doesn't want to go 6-7 years between bucks so it's the PGC's job to make it easy on us.
Oh and by the way, the average hunter went that long before AR!
Once again, a perfect example of a tired, mediocre hunter who won't change, or expend much effort to pusue his sport and doesn't really care about much else beyond his own little world.
If I get that tired or lazy, I should hope I have the good sense to give it up and start golfing.