USA,

I don't think the question here is IF it's enjoyable or even if it should be legal, or even considered ethical, the difference here and the question posed is basically - is it REALLY hunting when you pay $10,000 to shoot a huge buck on a high fence ranch where the deer are especially bred to be gentically huge over 180 B&C?? Is that the same "trophy" as some guy who shoots a whitetail on public land during the regular season that is 160 B&C?? For some of us, its a no brainer. The smaller buck is the better trophy. It was done on open lands with fair chase on a regular old deer herd.

I would love to go Africa one day, and when I do, sure I will have a PH, and yep, the guys will do the butchering caping etc. Those trophies will be special, but I will know the difference between them and the caribou that I had to back four miles through some of the nastiest swampy tusskocks over two days. The pleasure will be from the Africa experience, but I guarantee you I know what trophy was actually harder earned.

Call me an elitist, but watching 300 lb Billy Bob sit in his heated deer stand on a high fence ranch just is not hunting in my book.