Trophy or meat hunter???

[pianoman9701]

I enjoy the meat and eat it all year long, as well as fish, mushrooms, clams, shrimp etc that I catch or pick myself. However, I honestly believe if its just meat you're after then buying beef is way cheaper... I spend stupid amounts of money on hunting every year. If I just bought a beef cow I would spend a whole lot less money, but I enjoy the thrill of the hunt and the experience, a cow elk is still a trophy to me. I have to work my butt of for every animal I get, so if I am lucky enough to be successful on a hunt then I consider it a trophy, big rack small rack, horns or no horns. I voted trophy hunter.

What would be really great is a cattle ranch that lets you take your cow with a bow! Best of both worlds.

[PolarBear]

Trophy.  I'd rather eat a tag than a dink or a doe.  If you don't really need or want the meat, why shoot one just to fill a tag or an ego? Leave em' for the folks that really need them.

[PolarBear]

Wouldnt mind finding a really nice .......trophy piece of meat

Are we still talking deer and elk or some other "wild game" ?   

[Houndhunter]

I'm a trophy hunter for deer, I've ate my tag the last 2 years because of it. I'll shoot a small one last day of the season if the freezer is empty, otherwise I let the small-avg buck walk. I've passed on a few small bears, but typically will shoot any above 100lbs. And elk is anything legal with horns lol

[Skyvalhunter]

Show me the meat!!!

[TopOfTheFoodChain]

Meat hunter all the way. I shoot the first legal buck, bull, cow or doe I see.

[Dave Workman]

What dumb sonofa------ thought up this one? 

I'm a WASHINGTON hunter....so I don't get meat or trophies.....unless I can stuff and mount a tag.


    

[Dave Workman]

Luckily I live in New York (never thought I would say that) so I have three doe tags and two buck tags.

That explains a lot.

 

[npaull]

Meat hunter all the way.

[elkoholic]

I was a trophy hunter this year for deer, missed a nice buck but ended up taking a trophy doe the last day 100yards from the truck at last light. Usually I will wait and try for a buck but my family loves deer , elk is a different story , the first big cow I am able to get a shot at I will take it..

[E-Town Hunter]

Doesn't matter if its a spike white tail buck, they are all trophys to me. I usually shoot the first legal buck I see because were I hunt, if I don't the next guy will. Not to mention I love the feeling of a tag filled and meat in the freezer.

[PlateauNDN]

Show me the meat!!!

   I know what your saying but it just doesn't sound right.

[Wacenturion]

First and always, I enjoy the meat that a animal provides to my family. That being said I am more of a trophy hunter for deer then a meat hunter. I would rather let a smaller less mature buck walk away to live another day, then fill my freezer that has plenty of meat in it.

   I adhere to the saying, you'll never kill that really big one if you don't keep passing on smaller ones.  Besides....you get many more memorable hunts that way.

With that said, back in 93', I had the opportunity to kill the biggest whitetail I have ever had in my sights....and for over an hour at 80-100 yards on the first morning of my modern permit hunt.  I passed as it was the first day and I had planned to spend almost two weeks in my favorite part of the world chasing whitetails.

That buck was an honest 190-200 class whitetail.  Looked like a small rocking chair on top of his head.  Very symmetrical 6x7 typical with a split G2.  All the tines on the main beam were evenly long (in excess of 10-11 inches) with great eye guards.  The G2 split halfway up and both split tines were approximately 6-7 inches above that split.  He was tending a doe and had no clue I was even around. 


I named him the "*censored* Buck", in honor of what my son referred to me as, for passing on him, for the next 8 days of that hunting trip.

The other old saying that is very true is...."If they look big, they are big!"  Don't be a *censored*....

However on that trip I had four memorable hunts on bucks that were above 150 class, that I also passed on.  Ended up shooting a typical 4x4 125-130 class buck on the last day to appease my son, who by then was thinking I was ready for the funny farm.  Whenever I look at that typical 4x4 on the wall that I had mounted, I see the others including the "*censored* Buck".. Great memories for sure.  Just doesn't get any better.

[link]

Trophy.  I'd rather eat a tag than a dink or a doe.  If you don't really need or want the meat, why shoot one just to fill a tag or an ego? Leave em' for the folks that really need them.

My thoughts exactly. I do enjoy the meat, but I don't "need" the meat. If I get that hungry, Safeway is just down the road.

[BOWHUNTER45]

meat hunter / horn hunter but I do not believe in eating tags ......