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<blockquote data-quote="Ski" data-source="post: 5506878" data-attributes="member: 20583"><p>That's where we differ. I don't necessarily want to change. If 150" deer were common and everybody was killing them, then I want to hunt only booners. Then if B&C deer become so common that everybody was killing them, I'd only want to hunt world records. At some point there will be diminishing returns and I'd no longer be happy with the change. To be quite honest I enjoy the difficulty of finding and hunting the biggest, oldest bucks I'm able to reasonably hunt. Sliding the odds in my favor with habitat work is a big part of that fun. If it became easy I would no longer glean enjoyment from it. </p><p></p><p>I love the conversations, debates, studying the cause & effect, habitat work, deer studies, and speculating on regulations. But I'm eat up with deer hunting so all this stuff interests me. It's not like that for most folks. The mass of hunters will kill a 120" 2yr old and it'll be a big trophy for them. They don't care about age structures, high grading, sex ratios, soil quality, or any of the sort and never will. What kind of person would I be if I tried to change that for them?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ski, post: 5506878, member: 20583"] That's where we differ. I don't necessarily want to change. If 150" deer were common and everybody was killing them, then I want to hunt only booners. Then if B&C deer become so common that everybody was killing them, I'd only want to hunt world records. At some point there will be diminishing returns and I'd no longer be happy with the change. To be quite honest I enjoy the difficulty of finding and hunting the biggest, oldest bucks I'm able to reasonably hunt. Sliding the odds in my favor with habitat work is a big part of that fun. If it became easy I would no longer glean enjoyment from it. I love the conversations, debates, studying the cause & effect, habitat work, deer studies, and speculating on regulations. But I'm eat up with deer hunting so all this stuff interests me. It's not like that for most folks. The mass of hunters will kill a 120" 2yr old and it'll be a big trophy for them. They don't care about age structures, high grading, sex ratios, soil quality, or any of the sort and never will. What kind of person would I be if I tried to change that for them? [/QUOTE]
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