Originally Posted by Mbrock
Originally Posted by twaldrop4
Devils advocate but what if those younger bucks got the other people on the other land excited. What if that was a trophy to them. What if that’s the biggest deer they ever saw. What if they enjoy hunting for something other than an age class/ horn measurement. Are they wrong and should they be regulated

I say no. I am very much in favor of people hunting how they want to and not being mandated into a state regulated trophy management mindset. The cell cam and corn combination has made it very easy to kill deer. There’s less deer making it into the older age classes because of it.

I am very much anti-government so the way I feel about it and the way I often phrase my thoughts regarding any potential regulation is "Education is more effective than legislation".

Buck harvest is definitely trending towards an average age higher than in times passed, largely because of all the education that has been put out over the years through groups such as the QDMA (NDA).

In the meantime, I'm just saying that it's very frustrating when we put so much time, effort, and money into growing an impressive upper age class of bucks and the neighbors are just shooting them as babies over a corn pile and cell cam.

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