ORIGINAL: IL-Cornfed

My point was actually a question? Don't you feel kind of embarassed to take a 18 month old animal to the check station??? I see some folks around here will take in a yearling buck but then they'll be bragging about the 30 years they have hunted or the 100 deer they have killed?? It just has always kind of been that a little buck like that is kind of an amature thing..... you know..... something an adult actually grows out of....... a phase????

You know one of THE most successful management programs EVER conducted is the IL Nuclear Power Plant facility at Clinton Lake. This programed has an EAB program first. Once you shoot your Doe you may hunt for a buck. This is also THE most successful BOW hunting program that has PROVEN that bowhunting can indeed be used to manage the herd correctly. They have had to deal with unbelievable overpopulation and over browse conditions. Anyway my point is this. They have NO minimum size of antlered deer that may be taken on this special draw hunt, HOWEVER through a process of actually using hunter embarassment they have had a tremendous result on mature bucks taken. They actually POST ALL photos of all the BUCKS taken on the property on a "brag board". They said the results have been amazing..... it turns out that even the "average" Joe doesn't want to take a yearling buck and have his picture taken and then displayed with dozens of mature bucks! This proves that most hunters that take immature animals are NOT proud of them! MY question is, IF you take the life of an animal that you are NOT proud of then that animal shouldn't have been wasted! If you just hunt for meat..... TAKE A DOE! WHY shoot the lil' guys..... you gentlemen aren't first timers at this game? Is there no pride?

ORIGINAL: IL-Cornfed

Shoot whay ya want then... just don't cry about it or flock to the states that DO try to improve their quality? I personally would think that most grown men would feel embarassed to kill a yearling spike, 4 or 6 pointer??? What fun would that be after you've killed several of them..... what's the challenge at that point? [&:]