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<blockquote data-quote="fairchaser" data-source="post: 4229350" data-attributes="member: 10373"><p>You ,make some valid points BSK. Not every hunter is a trophy hunter and my definition was a stretch. But, I still think its in every hunters DNA to shoot a trophy buck at some point in their hunting life at least once. That doesn't make them a trophy hunter! My brother talks with me about hunting mature bucks and loves to discuss the topic but he will go out once a year and sit in a shooting house and shoot a young doe for meat. I often ask him if he would shoot a big buck if it walked out and he definitely would. But, he won't pursue one. He's not a trophy hunter and would argue with me if I called him one. So, Ill give you that one. </p><p></p><p></p><p>All hypotheticals fail to perfectly explain a point. Just as you make the point "if you knew you would never kill another trophy buck you would still be just as excited to hunt". Can this ever be the true? Probably not. It is rare that two bucks will be standing side by side giving the hunter a choice of which one to shoot but hunters are faced with the dilemma often of what they will shoot or not shoot. How often do they choose the deer providing the best most tender meat over the larger or older or bigger racked deer? In this day where deer meat is not needed for survival, most of us have evolved into sport hunters versus subsistence hunters. Yes, we eat the meat and enjoy the meat and use it instead of other protein sources but our natural selection is predicated on larger, older, bigger racked bucks or does. I've never heard of anyone specifically hunting fawns even though that is the most tender meat. I just think we are programmed differently with regard to hunting compared with our ancestors. I'll stand with my hypothetical even though it is rare, it does focus on my point that our selection process as hunters has changed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fairchaser, post: 4229350, member: 10373"] You ,make some valid points BSK. Not every hunter is a trophy hunter and my definition was a stretch. But, I still think its in every hunters DNA to shoot a trophy buck at some point in their hunting life at least once. That doesn't make them a trophy hunter! My brother talks with me about hunting mature bucks and loves to discuss the topic but he will go out once a year and sit in a shooting house and shoot a young doe for meat. I often ask him if he would shoot a big buck if it walked out and he definitely would. But, he won't pursue one. He's not a trophy hunter and would argue with me if I called him one. So, Ill give you that one. All hypotheticals fail to perfectly explain a point. Just as you make the point "if you knew you would never kill another trophy buck you would still be just as excited to hunt". Can this ever be the true? Probably not. It is rare that two bucks will be standing side by side giving the hunter a choice of which one to shoot but hunters are faced with the dilemma often of what they will shoot or not shoot. How often do they choose the deer providing the best most tender meat over the larger or older or bigger racked deer? In this day where deer meat is not needed for survival, most of us have evolved into sport hunters versus subsistence hunters. Yes, we eat the meat and enjoy the meat and use it instead of other protein sources but our natural selection is predicated on larger, older, bigger racked bucks or does. I've never heard of anyone specifically hunting fawns even though that is the most tender meat. I just think we are programmed differently with regard to hunting compared with our ancestors. I'll stand with my hypothetical even though it is rare, it does focus on my point that our selection process as hunters has changed. [/QUOTE]
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