Good question osaltydog.
What you might have here is some youngster who never has spent much time in the great outdoors. The majority of those questions meant nothing to me. So one was force to pick an answer which will just skew the data.

Like stated - When blood trailing a trophyanimal you are most interested in recovering?

Found that question odd and another similar one about turkeys. One answer I want the drums man. Hey I also want the breast meat too! So the wording on many of the questions actually turned me off and made me defensive.

JW

Exactly, the survey was made to force you in one direction and get the result the producer of the survey wanted. That is why I was suspicious. If this actually came from Field and Stream the creator should be summarily fired. I doubt if he ever hunted .

I went through it all and found it quite lacking. Had no relevance to my hunting reasoning or purpose.

Yep seem to be a stupid question or a "plant".

Cause you would find both the head and the meat together!

Ive never seen the head run one way and the meat run the other way.

Evidently you are using too small a caliber, didn't you know we try to take the heads clean off around these parts.

Should try one of these, it might help.

The head vs. meat question is ridiculous. For starters, it is illegal in WI and probably everywhere else to not recover the animal for meat, either for yourself or someone else. And secondly, for me, it would be no trophy, regardless of the rack, if the meat spoiled - that would qualify as a failed hunt. I would rather miss a deer than shoot it and then recover it days later when the meat was no good, even if I could have the head mounted.

This thread looks like a good wake-up call for publishers w/fanciful ideas concerning hunters and hunting.