Big Racks Craze
08-31-2010, 12:25 PM
#31
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,282
Deer hunting now is not the same as it was in the seventies. My dad always said when he was growing up, especially around here, just bagging a deer was a good accomplishment. He said the herds just weren't as plentiful. You can make your own opinion about that...
I too think many hunters also have their own objectives when hunting. A lot od hunters, especially those new to the sport, will shoot anything. Many, like you Doetrain, just enjoy the woods, and bagging a deer for meat and pleasure. There is nothing wrong with that. But I don't care who you are, the majority of the human race is competitive. I think you'll find many guys go after trophy bucks for the challenge. I know I constantly try to look for more challenges in hunting, and in life itself. I know for me once, I was at the age & experience level that I had no problem getting deer with in range on a consistent basis, I became picky. It's a different type of challenge to pattern & kill a big mature buck.
Deer hunting is what you make it and what you enjoy...so keep enjoying it and until you decide to change your ways, keep doing what you're doing.
I too think many hunters also have their own objectives when hunting. A lot od hunters, especially those new to the sport, will shoot anything. Many, like you Doetrain, just enjoy the woods, and bagging a deer for meat and pleasure. There is nothing wrong with that. But I don't care who you are, the majority of the human race is competitive. I think you'll find many guys go after trophy bucks for the challenge. I know I constantly try to look for more challenges in hunting, and in life itself. I know for me once, I was at the age & experience level that I had no problem getting deer with in range on a consistent basis, I became picky. It's a different type of challenge to pattern & kill a big mature buck.
Deer hunting is what you make it and what you enjoy...so keep enjoying it and until you decide to change your ways, keep doing what you're doing.
Killing a Big Buck on a Do It Yourself Hunt is also a great challenge. What you see on TV is not always real world hunting for most of us, so take what you see on TV with a grain of salt.
08-31-2010, 04:48 PM
#35
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 489
I'll take a stab. "Trophy Hunter" never pulls the trigger but to shoot a Trophy male mature game animal. they never do herd mngmt. and also on the TV show's most of the time's those guy's do show herd mngmt, it's not all big rack's. I can't think of one show I watch that they don't pull the trigger on some does. I don't watch them all some just piss me off.
08-31-2010, 05:18 PM
#36
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
plenty of trophy hunters practice QDMA, I think there is a myth out there that a hunter is overwhelmingly some rich white guy who books expensive outfitted hunts and only takes a monster...
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!
08-31-2010, 06:26 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
Hey uncle matt, what about the guys I hunt with here in northern New England that can only shoot one deer/year and they hunt the big woods, no crops, no fields, just miles and miles of woods owned by paper companies. Plus some of these woods have less than 10 deer/sq mile, yet they shoot no small deer for the meat, it's all about tagging that one bruiser. And yes, they go home empry handed some years after the season is over but it's the challenge of trying to kill only that mature, big old buck.
08-31-2010, 06:41 PM
#38
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 489
and this is where I see it can get very opinioated. short season= small herd no real problem. yet where I am from we need to thin the herd, and I dont apreciate those trophy hunters we have 6 deer to harvest and 4 month's to do it. don't just start snapping off at the term "Trophy Hunter" I can understand if you don't quite understand the term. us as hunters have a duty to do what's needed for the herd's health an well being. if you have 10 deer per sq mile and only can kill 1 deer I would never shoot a doe either.
08-31-2010, 06:45 PM
#39
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 489
plenty of trophy hunters practice QDMA, I think there is a myth out there that a hunter is overwhelmingly some rich white guy who books expensive outfitted hunts and only takes a monster...
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!
09-01-2010, 01:06 PM
#40
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Where animals get eaten
Posts: 671
plenty of trophy hunters practice QDMA, I think there is a myth out there that a hunter is overwhelmingly some rich white guy who books expensive outfitted hunts and only takes a monster...
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!
even an expensive outfitted hunt doesn't mean you go home with a monster most times.
and many trophy hunters take does/cows for meat but pass on immature bucks/bulls.
In fact I would argue trophy hunters in many cases take more does than a lot of these so called hunters do, I know guys who will shoot the first buck they see, 1.5yo....dink, and feel like the man when they do! but take a doe? pssh they wouldn't think of it!