ORIGINAL: HYDE

What gets me is all this talk about game management. In MT the only game management practice we have is to shoot the little basket bucks to get the bad genetics out of the heard. And here you are all bashing shooting little bucks, when it does more good for the heard than anything. Shooting the little basket bucks allows the genes of the monsters to be spread throughout the entire heard. Wolfen68, you are from KS where there isn't a wild deer in the whole state. 95% of them are fenced in on a "game management ranch" if you want to hunt wild deer get out of the midwest/south and come to MT. I don't call that hunting when you plant food plots for deer and fence them in. Real hunting is done in the woods where you have to lay out your best guess of what you think the deer/elk are going to do on any particular morning/evening, the reason they are unpredictable is because they are wild. When you plant food plots you can be 99.9% sure they will walk the same trail morning and evening to eat the food you planted for them (not hunting, they are more like pets), but if you get a kick out of it great. You don't have the right to bash others that hunt wild deer.