Most of the trophies that you listed are TEAM trophies. Most are displayed in a TEAM facility. And there are players and coaches on these teams that never play but get to cplaim the trophy , just the same. Only the Heisman has anything to do with individual accomplishments and even the Heisman is somewhat tainted because it is an award that is voted on and not actually WON on the field of play. I put little stock in the Heisman.
Harvesting a 130 inch buck is more of an individual accomplishment unless you take the deer on a "deer farm" or a guided hunt where someone takes you out to a stand and tells you to sit there and just wait....then it's something anyone can do if they can shoot.
What makes a 130 inch buck special is when you work for it, do it the right way, and it's the first 130 incher that you harvest.
If 130s became the norm, then 150s would be special.....
BH
I think some of you are missing the point of this thread. I wanted to show that a true trophy is something that you work for and is not readily attainable by any one that walks into the woods. If there was a 130 or 140 buck behind every tree(I know this is not possible) what would make killing one special?
Actually...i did understand your post and I will follow up with these statements.....
I was fortunate enough to grow up during the time when I still remember black and white TV (with three channels), land line rotary phones and LPs. I knew people that had "party lines" and no indoor plumbing......I say "fortunate" because I know what it's like to live without some thing that today's kids see as "everyday" and somewhat boring......
I know what it's like to NOT see deer and have a one buck limit and no doe tags....
I know what it's like to mount a 65 inch 7 pointer because it was a BUCK!
Now, I know what it's like to kill multiple deer over 120 inches and to even fail to get the job done not once, but twice and watch a true GIANT fade away into the trees as I stood there watching helplessly.
I know what you're saying about 130s being the norm , but just with anything else.....once the prize is obtained , the prize winner wants more and more....
Knowing what it's like to not have things makes having them even that much more special. Killing a 120/130 inch deer back in the 70s would have been huge around here. It was done, but with far less the regularity that it is now. These days, a 120 inch deer is a NICE deer, but back then it would have spoiled in the back of someone's truck.
A simple statement that I find so true in life is this.....
Even the rich get bored, they just get bored with more expensive things.
I guess that having a 130 behind every tree would be great until the bar was set higher and then we would all be passing on the 130s. That would be a great day, IMO...
BH
