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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: neolib who wrote (15736)8/13/2007 6:00:47 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 36917
 
AFAIK, hunting specifically avoids the 1'st year young ones, predation almost certainly prefers those.

True. But there's no problem there.

I'm pretty sure the overwhelming majority of hunters prefer a trophy animal to one which is not. That is why earlier I posed the question of how many hunters would skip a truly excellent trophy buck in their sights and opt instead to wait for a less magnificent animal? That is the question you need to answer to understand huntings impact on trophy genetics. I'm pretty sure I know which way the answer would go for > 90% of hunters. So that is your answer about the long term intelligence of most hunters.

What you're talking about is irrelevant. Almost all hunters shoot the first legal deer they get a shot at. Seasons are short and there's little time to "shop".