How is that guy any different then the one who would do the same thing.........but only if it had a bigger rack.


Filling a buck tag has NEVER kept me from the woods. You should know better then that by now.......I am out there trying to slam that freezer FULL. We get 2 buck tags.


I don't see a different meaning there............I would still think the guy obsessed with the biggest blue dot cares more then the guy who will shoot any blue dot and if it's a big one then great..........if not he doesn't really care because he still had fun.



I'm not..........do whatever you want..........have a blast.........wait on a 5,000 inch 85 pointer for all I care........I have no interest in telling you what you should or should not get enjoyment from. Please extend me the same respect.



And that is your free will to choose to do so............just as someone else can express their free will to choose what THEY want to do. Yes, often times those choices will not be the same. Such is life.



That analogy doesn't make sense. Re-read my cigar analogy and maybe it will sink in. You have it backwards.



Wow, do you have your wires crossed on that one

Yeah, a 4' fence is real tall.

I thought we were sharing pics of things we grew and harvested whenever we felt they were big enough.

Same principle.

Wanna join the QGMA???..........for $25 I will put your name in a book

We have good genetics around here..........gotta keep the cull cucs out of the mix though. Once I see that a cuc is all it's ever gonna be it needs to be removed. There is some interesting research out there though saying that even tiny thin cucs can grow to be massive. The debate whether or not to harvest spike cucs rages on.

Atlas I can not tell a cucumber from zucchini I think they would kick me out.

Dude that is TGMA[:'(]

If all one is looking for is antlers then they are missing the big picture. There is to much more out there than that.

That buck/doe thing meant to have another part to it, but I was in a hurry and left it off by accident.
The guy shooting the buck would say "you can't eat the horns, I just wanted some meat". But the doe was bigger, comes the retort. "Yea, But this one was a buck"
Not quite the same effectI was going for since it's split up.


See what's gotten lost in here, is that I really don't care about the guy who wants to shoot a buck cause he is truly happy with anything, I'm happy for him too. But what REALLY ticks me off(and you may not think there are that many out there like it, but there are around here) is the loud mouth, chest thumpin, measure of a man"I got my buck" crowd. These guys want a deer around every tree so they can stroll into the woods hungover at 9 am and still have a chance at getting a buck. They wouldn't shoot a doe if they were starving, cause that's not 'manly'. They take no real enjoyment in the prize they have taken other than to gain the illusion that they are 'cool' when they are back at the bar or hanging out with buddies/coworkers. Those are the ones that bug me.

There is one other "group" that I have no issues with other than I just don't understand them for the life of me. That's the guys who have become quite proficient hunters, yet still just whack the 1st little buck by. Yes they may still be happy with it, and that's cool, I just don't understand how the 17th forkhorn is just as fun as the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd? I know I'm not alone in this thinking as there are alot of others who 'step up' and don't bother to shoot little bucks cause they get no enjoyment from it. I just know that since I've stopped shooting the 1stbuck to comeby, my hunting has become even more fun than it was. I'm out longer, I get to do what I love to do longer, and I put myself in a position to shoot a nice buck each year. If it makes you guys truly happy, then fine, I was there too at one time, but I can't comprehend still being there.

Heck no, you're not alone. I don't either. Hell I know guys that will shoot 3 freakin scrubs in one year, that hunt on the same place I do. When I see these little ones I try to do some telepathy and tell them "to hide until dark". It's crazy. I've hunted with some of the same guys for 20 years and their still doing the same thing...nothing makes you wonder like a whole truckload of dead 4 pts[:'(]...for the 15th time[:'(]
I continually try to talk them out of it.

Yet...

I do not think that state mandated A/Rs are right. I'll try my best to fight my fight with the people I hunt with on the places I hunt, but I do not think there should be a law...because ultimately it should be the choice of the individual to hunt the way they want, in this instance.

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Yeah, a 4' fence is real tall.
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Great observation Dan. Them 4 foot barbwire fences are really known for containing spikers.