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<blockquote data-quote="jaybird62" data-source="post: 5247572" data-attributes="member: 3437"><p>"<em>In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted." </em>Jose Ortega y Gasset.</p><p>If I tag a buck and the season is not closed, it is my preference to continue my "vacation from the human condition" with an opportunity to put a tag on a second buck of my choosing. On the other hand, shooting does for meat and management purposes is more akin to work. </p><p></p><p>Your suggestion is that my "story" might become more meaningful if I allowed that second buck to walk. Instead, killing it becomes a marker to relive that hunt, and is not diminished by the size of the rack. </p><p></p><p>From a biological standpoint, you might also want to check out some of the posts by BSK on passing a 3 1/2-year-old buck to let him grow, thinking that he'll even survive another season or two. If I'm not mistaken, the percentage of bucks in the total population that reach the elevated 5 1/2-year-old status is not significantly greater today than it was when the season buck bag limit was 10.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jaybird62, post: 5247572, member: 3437"] "[I]In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted." [/I]Jose Ortega y Gasset. If I tag a buck and the season is not closed, it is my preference to continue my "vacation from the human condition" with an opportunity to put a tag on a second buck of my choosing. On the other hand, shooting does for meat and management purposes is more akin to work. Your suggestion is that my "story" might become more meaningful if I allowed that second buck to walk. Instead, killing it becomes a marker to relive that hunt, and is not diminished by the size of the rack. From a biological standpoint, you might also want to check out some of the posts by BSK on passing a 3 1/2-year-old buck to let him grow, thinking that he'll even survive another season or two. If I'm not mistaken, the percentage of bucks in the total population that reach the elevated 5 1/2-year-old status is not significantly greater today than it was when the season buck bag limit was 10. [/QUOTE]
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