The more we stress killing just the big racked deer the more we will loose support from the non-hunting public.
After the shooting of the hunters in Wisconsin I spent some time on non -hunting boards and couldn't believe what many people think.All we care about is the rack and nothing else but the kill matters.
If a guy sits quietly and waits for a deer to come I can somewhat understand.
Many feel this is the act of a coward, read that too many times in the last week.
But I fail to see the sportsmanship when a group of guys get together and "drive" or push the deer through a woodlot to some other guys waiting at the other end.
Many see absolutely nothing sporting about hunting.
Go ahead and root for the deer. I've read so many posts in the last week were people are actually happy that hunters were killed and how heartless,and backwards we are,that I'm not shocked.
You think bowhunting is so much better then gunhunting, I hope you realize that HSUS and fund for animals are merging with one big goal to ban bow-hunting. You know the wounding rates and it's inhumane.