I have to agree with Sylvan on this one. IL-Cornfed is showing his youth, or juvenile attitude. I'm not saying I don't prefer larger deer and feel a little more pride about a difficult kill, as it has been pointed out, larger deer don't necessarily translate into more difficult deer. Part of the appeal though is the uniqueness of a larger deer. Increasing the average age of the deer will increase the occurance of bigger deer but I think they will always be uncommon enough to be unique.

I would like to redirect this thread from focusing on the arrogance of both sides of the discussion, which I dismiss as being the result of poor debating skills, unfortunate selection of words, or underdeveloped hunting attitudes. Instead I would like to address the substance of some of the points brought up by Sylvan's earlier post concerning the effectiveness of the QDM program, as it was intended to be implimented. I am reading his referenced article and will respond to it and his other questions as soon as I am able. In the meantime, if I may, I would like to encourage other posters to try and address a reasoned discussion of the pro's and con's of implimenting a QDM program, and for the sake of this discussion let us assume that it is a VOLUNTARY implimentation on a fictitous section of land and take the discussion from there.