I trophy hunt in order to keep from screwing up the hunt with a loud noise and messed up morning. I trophy hunt to let bucks have many years to spread their genes. I trophy hunt because I love to hunt, but not kill things.
Finally in Jan and Feb this year I 'shot' a couple of does because the game dept said the ranch had 35 too many for the welfare of the property.
Most years I may see a 150-300 deer. I haven't killed a buck in 4 years.
When I do kill one, he'll have had plenty of opportunity to have spread his genes around. He will be getting old with no dentist or dr or nursing home. He will have died quickly and not been starved down, before the coyotes fed on him a while before he fell to the ground.
Last edited by eyeball; 04/22/14.
