QuoteOriginally posted by Bisch:
I like to get a "big one" as much as the next guy, but that is not what I do it for. I get just as excited about a raghorn or doe. The challenge of what we do, and how we do it, makes it not necessary to bag the biggest critter in the woods to be totally successful!!!

Bisch

For most of us, myself included, I feel that WHAT we shoot isn't really important, it is HOW we do it that matters to us.  Many of today's horn porn hunters just can't seem to relate to that.  Watch bow ninja hunter on youtube.  He shoots a compound, but other than that he would fit here very well.

I might post a score on the game I shoot, but I don't know the Pope and Young method for scoring dandelions.

The hunting shows, really, are just a half hour set of advertisements with a few kill shots thrown in to make it interresting to most guys. Now a company like Matthews is not going to pay that much money just to show some guy shooting a doe or a spike with their hot new bow. They need a 180 incher to show what you could get if you bought their bow. See? So its gotta be about inches or their would be no money in it. I wish there were more shows like The old Fred Bear footage used to be.

I agree with the OP (who said it first) and Bisch and all the others who said its not about inches.

I honestly believe that any hunter who doesn't get excited about seeing a big buck is either jaded from shooting too many of them or lying through his teeth, but I still find the hunt challenging enough and exciting enough just being out in the woods trying to close a deal with a deer, that I get really excited regardless of the presence or absence or size of the rack.

don't recall who said it but it was something g about any time we hit the mark its a trophy. that is so true. I get so happy when I put 3 arrows in a row in the lungs are my rhinehart!

It's more about the experience of the hunt than harvesting a animal and traditional equipment does that for me.

I would not have it any other way.

I loooooooooove looking at big antlers, you could pretty well say Im antler obsessed , but I like eating critters even better than looking at their antlers.

     I also get a thrill out of putting a plan together and getting some game. I won't kill a deer that I won't be thrilled with and Ive taken some just out of their spots.

   Also  with my work and family schedule, a deer in the garage beats two in the bush.

I think most of the fine people on here hunt Meat not Horns....