I can't consider a trophy animal one you pay to hunt a property and take after someone else doing the homework for you. It's kinda like entering your kid in a marathon, driving him to the finish line and letting him cross the line first. "Here's your trophy, kid, you're a great athlete!" I believe the only way to truly EARN a trophy is to study the land and habitat, study the creature's habits, pattern the animal and truly hunt it. Not listen to some local kid/farm hand ("guide") tell ya "I've been watching him everyday now for a couple months now (when you've been home changing diapers, mowing the lawn and punching the time clock). Sit in this stand/blind, and if the wind is right, keep your eyes peeled to the creek bottom and about 4:35 or 4:45 he'll be pushing thru here. Call me on the radio (if he ain't spotting for you and calling you) and I'll have one of the boys jump down there with a four wheeler and take him out for you "
Well I don't guess it really matters what you consider it. I pay to lease a property for a week in IL. The guy shows me where the proerty is and says have at it. Now lets flip that coin, if I go in and scout and and hang my own stands without any input from the farmer and I kill a deer without the several months that you have to scout, does that make be a better hunter than you? You know not of that which you speak. You can lump everyone that pays for access into the same group. I take a piece of property, digest everything I can from scouting it in one day and then hang stands and hunt (by myself not accompied by a landowner or anyone else) and since I didn't need to scout it for a month my deer isn't a trophy
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