The longer I am on this forum and the more I read from the so-called trophy hunters......the more turned off I become to them.
And, I gotta add, I do find it amusing that most of them have never posted any pics of any trophy deer! LOL
I'll never understand it myself. I've only killed one racked buck in my LIFE! It was a small 8point that I hunted my ass off to kill about 3 or so years ago. Some folks just don't have the opportunity or land to see a lot of deer and they take advantage of what they do get to see.
Fast forward to this year and I'm in a really good club in TN. I've had the best season I've ever had as far as deer hunting and seeing tons of deer (bucks and does) in the woods. I haven't pulled the trigger on one yet, but then again I'm seeing TONS of deer and simply having the opportunity to kill deer makes you a different hunter. Looking down on others that may not have that same opportunity is selfish and quite frankly those folks that do that looking down can go phuck themselves.
IDOT I remember when you killed that deer and everybody on this website was tickled to death for you. But like you said you'd probably rather let a buck just like that one walk off and enjoy watching him more than shooting him now. I haven't been a deer hunter very long either and I've never killed a real big deer yet. I've always been a turkey hunter and I just never had a lot of interest in it. T Winters carried me with him a time or 2 and I kinda got hooked on it once I realized there's a lot more to it than just sitting down and waiting for a deer to come walking by you. The first buck I killed was a pretty little 3 year old 8 point...... I had found some good sign and figured there might be a good deer in there and caught him checking a scrape one evening right before dark. I was tickled to death and couldn't have been prouder. Fast forward to last season and I stayed in the woods a little too late and shot a pretty little 3 year old with a big body chasing a doe right at dark. It was basically a twin to the first buck I killed but instead of being proud of it I felt sick because that deer could have been a real stud if he had lived a couple more years. It sounds like you and I both are progressing as deer hunters and we've figured out its a lot more fun to just let the younger bucks walk and watch them as opposed to blasting them. That seems pretty natural to me. I think what the original poster was referring to was the guys that just keep piling up 2 year olds year after year. Some of them are really good hunters but they are just bloodthirsty. Most of the guys like that don't bother stopping at 3 bucks a season either. So when it's put that way (and I do believe that's how the original poster intended it) I don't see what makes a grown man wanna keep shooting little tiny yearling bucks and 2 year olds either. I don't think he meant it to apply to people that have either never killed or seen many deer or to people that only get to hunt a couple times a season.
