You wrote: "There are always people in any walk of life who want to set limits for others." Unfortunately, that is true. And also unfortunately too many QDM enthusiasts want to see other hunters' harvest and hunting opportunities limited just so that their efforts towards growing big bucks can be more successful. I deeply oppose that movement/viewpoint. If you want to practice QDM, do so on your own hunting land. If you don't, don't.
But I thought you were in favor of the buck restrictions that were imposed on the Tennessee hunters, ergo, probably support Al's buck limit?
Just tryin to help 49r out
In my opinion, the only role the lower buck limit played in fostering these improvements is that it fostered the
idea of "protecting" bucks from over-harvest, and when buck age structures began to noticably improve in the years after the lowered limit (even though the lower limit was not the direct cause of this), hunters began to see that limiting buck harvests really will increase buck age structure, prompting more and more hunters to be selective (by age) in their harvests. In essence, success bred success, even though the actual reason for the earlier success was not really caused by the lower buck limit. Through more older bucks being seen and killed, hunters began to believe that passed young bucks in one year would survive the season and be available for harvest as older bucks in following years, hence they gained the confidence to start passing young bucks; i.e. success bred success.
