re: these grown men should be embarrassed posting all of these 4 point and 6 point bucks

The fine parish of St. James.

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Generally when I see an antlered buck I have about 10 seconds to get the crosshairs on him and shoot.

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I know how you feel.

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antlers are inedible

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and whistling ducks are delicious. But I still want greenheads in the decoys

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Why is this so hard for y'all to swallow? I'm in a private hunting club. Our official rule is state law, but we each choose to further restrict ourselves. None of us are in this PRIVATE club wishing to only shoot trophy deer. You don't belong to my club, so why do you give a flying frick what we shoot?

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Does it embarrass you that someone in your state, on land you don't hunt, shoots a buck that he's not gonna "put on the wall"?

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If I wanted to shoot trophy deer, I'd join a different club in a different area.

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1. I clearly said I don't care what others shoot, or where they post pictures of what they shot.


2. People have many reasons to hunt, they all influence each other. I really don't understand why you are so defensive, you have your opinion, and I have mine.

I don't even know how it would embarrass me.

Or we can stop bitching about what we can’t control. If it’s a legal deer, let it go.

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Of course not when the entire state has the “if I don’t shoot him someone else will mentality”

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Maybe most people don't care about antlers.

It's showings like you're putting on right now that are a big part of the problem we have. And I'm not talking about caring about what other people shoot either. I'm talking about caring so much about the size of the rack. Not only is it causing problems in our own community, but it adds fuel to the anti-hunter fire.

It devalues the animal when all we talk about is the size of the rack, when the perception (and often times the reality) is that the only thing a particular hunter is after is the rack, is something to hang on the wall.

Don't believe that? Just go look at the data that shows support for subsistence hunting versus trophy hunting. More people oppose trophy hunting than simply hunting as a whole.

Now, if you want to make this about the health of the deer herd, maximizing meat yields etc., sure, that's a discussion worth having.

But you didn't. You came in here and made it about ANTLERS!

Hell, let's take this a step further. You think it's embarrassing to be proud of a 4 or 6 point (that might have been killed off public land, mind you)? You know what's really embarrassing? Parading around a 10 point that you shot over a corn pile like you did something special.

But do I really care about how he killed it or why? No. It's none of my damn business. What makes HIM any better than the guy who's hunting public land hard, and the only deer he comes across is a spike or a 4 point. He's supposed to pass on that deer because YOU think he should? It may be the only deer he has a chance at because he only gets a few weekends a year to hunt.

So maybe you should think about all of that before you judge those guys.

How about shoot what makes you happy?

If killing spikes makes you happy I'm all for it.

If you want to trophy hunt I'm all for it.

Agreed that group of coonasses have destroyed their home area deer population so now they have secured travel trailer spots all over our WMA's and every 500 acres they can lease with a family of 10 and decimate the population. Its horrible to watch that mentality of people operate in our state.

Anti dog hunters and trophy hunters have one agenda. Take away their hunting competition, have more land and less hunters for themselves. All in the name of “herd health” They know it, we all know it. You make more restrictions, less people are going to be interested in hunting.