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<blockquote data-quote="hammer33" data-source="post: 5683854" data-attributes="member: 19900"><p>The more you relax about hunting the more satisfying it becomes. I have mixed feelings about bringing a newby out to kill a whopper, unless there is a special friendship there and you want to build a memory together. Killing a whopper can have mixed blessings. Often it creates unrealistic expectations that ruin hunting. If you are a newby without the experience to understand how rare an oversized deer is, and have one put in your lap, then that becomes the metric you measure your hunts by. Unfortunately, all the media is geared towards booner bucks and too many hunters fall for it and equate success with inches of horn, or "mature" bucks. Some of my best and most memorable hunts have been with friends where nobody killed anything or got a deer that would be sneered at or ignored by the hunting industry. Big bucks are nice, but with the cultural and hunting industry focus on antler size, it warps hunting to be about that, not about all the other wonderful things about a hunt, regardless of what you kill or don't kill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hammer33, post: 5683854, member: 19900"] The more you relax about hunting the more satisfying it becomes. I have mixed feelings about bringing a newby out to kill a whopper, unless there is a special friendship there and you want to build a memory together. Killing a whopper can have mixed blessings. Often it creates unrealistic expectations that ruin hunting. If you are a newby without the experience to understand how rare an oversized deer is, and have one put in your lap, then that becomes the metric you measure your hunts by. Unfortunately, all the media is geared towards booner bucks and too many hunters fall for it and equate success with inches of horn, or "mature" bucks. Some of my best and most memorable hunts have been with friends where nobody killed anything or got a deer that would be sneered at or ignored by the hunting industry. Big bucks are nice, but with the cultural and hunting industry focus on antler size, it warps hunting to be about that, not about all the other wonderful things about a hunt, regardless of what you kill or don't kill. [/QUOTE]
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