RE: Trophy or just a nice deer?
Charlie, I must have woke up just as grumpy as you , because the concept that the weapon you use dictates the trophy status of a deer is ridiculous. By Fieldmouses logic both the typical and non typical world recoreds aren't trophies. Not only is that laughable i think a person with those views is most likeley admittable. Fieldmouse you are simply stating tha the harder the weapon is to bag a big buck with the more of a trophy it is. And you actually set the cut off at a bow and arrow.
Here is a list of acceptable trophy hunting tactics
hit one while going exactly 5 miles per hour on a ten speed bike.
pelting it with snowballs, sorry no trophies in texas.
swiss army knife.
boomarang.
a rope.
If you use any other tactic that these you are simply a paocher that only wants to hunt canned hunts with sophisticated weapons where the deer stand no chance.
THats my story and im sticking to it!
(Note: I do not endorse or realisticaly believe in anyhting after the first paragraph. If i did I would be an egostistical elitest )