I meant it in fun....and I agree with the above.

Good night

As most of you know, it's all about having fun for me....And it always will be. I'm a spur of the moment hunter in that if I see something I like I'll try to kill it. It doesn't need to be old or a P&Y. Yeah, I have my standards and I've let a lot of nice deer walk over the years, sometimes because of aslammer I've seen and others because it just wasn't quite what I wanted. The nicest deer I have ever seen was a perfect basket 10-point that probably wouldn't quite make 125in (P&Y) but the rack was just about as perfect as I've ever seen and I would have loved for that deer to have given me a shot at him.

I hunt for me...I hunt for fun and I will never stop doing that.

I shoot what I want to. Be it a buck doe or fawn. I suggest everyone else do the same.

I have no problem with anyone shooting what they want. What I do have a problem with are the folks that complain about there being "no big bucks around" or the folks that say "if I don't shoot 'em then someone else will". These excuses simply do NOT hold water in my book. Don't be part of the problem, be part of the solution. It is ALL of OUR responsibility to do our part to take control of the badly skewed and out-of-whack deer herds that years and years and poor management have led us to. Good luck and good huntin'

Mobow, I think we all are really deep down in the same boat, you said it best when you said when the right one steps out in front of you you will know. That is how it is with all of us you just know. I had a thread a while ago about guys throwing around numbers too much and I think you just summed it up perfectly for me. By throwing around numbers too much you start to make so other hunters uncomfortable with there decisions, just because the buck that makes me go that's him might not do it for others. So in a nut shell "SHOOT WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY"end of story every deer buck or doe is a trophy it just depends where you are at in your hunting carreer at the time.. Walt

I'll shoot when my brain says, " OHHHH! THATS A SHOOTER!" Its not complicated for me.

Deer Hunting Gospel

Peer pressure. I think it's more destructive than good. I'm sure it is.

As an obstinent man it has the reverse effect on me, but it obviously still effects me for the bad.

I'm a gin it.

I'm in it for the meat! A big buck is considered a bonus. I have let many smaller bucks pass though.

Given the severity of the poaching situation whereI hunt and the number of tags we have in Virginia (6, including two antlered tags) and the problem with the deer population here, I'll shoot whatever I can, except for 1st year animals. I'd like a trophy, but I also like meat.