I have wondered the same thing, Antler Eater, although I did originally support the idea that only 20-30% of all participants would tag a buck.

The reason I may be waffling, besides that fact that it's an election year and that seems like the appropriate thing to do , is that I am trying to figure what type of hunter uses this board, and why.

I don’t know if we’re all a bunch of lonely hunters that don’t have any real life friends to talk hunting with, or if we’re the more serious hunters (that also have time to surf the web) that are looking for every bit of information to help us become better hunters.

I guess I’m beginning to think that there are more of the later group here than there are of the former group. I’m kind of in both groups. The circles that I run in due to my profession as a designer tend to be more white collar and many of them feel they are ‘above’ hunting. Some flat out do not like hunting, but most just don’t care about it, so I come here to talk hunting. I also want to improve in every way possible as a hunter and am always looking for that little bit of advice that may make me just a little bit better in finding deer, and particularly bucks.

I have noticed that people on message boards are much more willing to share tips and tactics with ‘internet friends’ who won’t be hunting the same woods with them. Real life friends, at least in my experience, are a little more closed mouth about what they do to locate the big bucks and ultimately harvest them. Maybe that’s another reason for coming to these boards.

Anyway, back to your question. I think I agree with you that more than five of us on our team will post bucks on this board before it’s all said and done. I think that we are all better than ‘average’ hunters, or in my case, just have a nice location to hunt in that has a lot of bucks.

-Brad