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Pappy:
I get into arguments over this all the time,when I first started hunting if you killed a big buck it was something that people talked about all the time but if it gets to where every other buck in the woods has big horns then what is the big deal.I am a trophy hunter till something else comes along.I manage the herd on my farm with the equipment I choose to hunt with.I hope I didn't
offend anyone with this but believe me it is a great bunch of bowhunters that do this every year.
It seems to bring us alltogether and that has got to be worth something.Dana we try not to shoot buttons here also but it ant for antler development it's cause they ant as much meat on one of them. ;) ;D Same thing with Jake turkeys. :)
   Pappy

DanaM:
I here ya Pappy and agree with ya, I will let a nubber or doe fawn walk unless its late in the season and I haven't shot anything else.
Here in michigan, as I'm sure is true in many states there seems to be a huge emphasis on antlers size. Your supposed to pay all your license fees, and other costs to go hunting then not shoot anuthing unless its a mature deer. Let the1 1/2 year old bucks walk and go home with nothing. You can shoot a doe with a bow on your combination license but not with a gun, seems to be a double standard there. Of course you can buy a doe tag depending what zone you are in, here in my area they had only private land doe tags available with a 40 acre minimum in order to qualify for one. Yet our area is probably 80 to 90 percent public land and no general doe tags available, go figure, land owners are being rewarded in my book. So this means the gun hunter pretty much has to shoot any legal buck he sees, legal being spikes 3" or longer. But yet if he does many criticize him for doing so. One of the biggest problems inmy book is the hunting shows and magazines with their emphasis on trophy's. I would love to see one of the hunting pro's come up here without a guide go out into our big woods, no farm land, no food plots etc, lots of deer but disperse over thousands and thousands of acres and come back with 150 class buck. >:D Ya right they go on guided hunts at what are essentially zoo's and shoot the monster buck and then tell us is we need to do this and buy the gadget their endorsing and we can get shoot the trophy also. What a joke they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Hunting is a personal choice it means something different to all of us, me I'm not a trophy hunter but would'ny object to a wall mounter ;D but I'm also happy with a fat doe for the freezer. Ok I will get off the soap box and let someelse have it for awhile. ;)

Hillbilly:
I don't go for horn porn or deer farming, either. And that's basically what the "management" that they try to cram down everybody's throat to grow horns horns horns boils down to-treating wild deer like private livestock, farming them. I think any deer is a good deer and worthy game, especially if you're toting a selfbow. I also think that deer did just fine for thousands of years without us trying to genetically manipulate them and improve their antlers. Hunting shows have done a lot to hurt deer hunting and turn it into a horn competition if you ask me-most people don't even see the deer that's under the horns, it's just there to give the horns a substrate to grow on. I like to hunt deer. Real deer. The kind with four legs, two ears, with or without horns of any and all sizes. They're all deer, and they're all good. I believe in backstraps. Button bucks are tender and tasty. You can go ahead and flog me now, Pat, but I still won't convert to being a deer farmer. ;D  ;D

makete:
What Dana said!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;)

Pappy:
I couldn't have said it better myself Dana-Hillbilly.I don't have a problem with people that want to
go after the big one,where I run into problems is when they tell me I ought to also.Nothing bugs
me more than for someone to come in with a 4 point,head down and start apologizing for it,
or ask someone if they have done any good and they say ya I killed a little old 4 point.If you
don't want it or ant proud of it don't shoot it if you or then act like you are. :)I think with a
selfbow are good ones and since that is all I hunt with they are all good. ;)
   Pappy

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