Chit that hurts herds and horns are development, and crappy forest/land management, first and foremost. Second is buck/doe ratios.
I won't deny that dudes shooting the chit out of anything with horns on an overcrowded lease will keep critters from becoming wall hangers, but that's not my concern.
Points well taken. Management or rather bad management does a lot more harm had done more harm than hunters have ever done.
My reservation might also have a lot to do with the health of the herds where I hunt. In Central O R where I passed on the big buck those three years were we when poaching had severly decimated the herds.
