A little tougher question

[Doc]

I don't remember hunting being so competitive between hunters. For most of my hunting years, I was totally unaware of an antler scoring system. I have no idea when that all started. It seems to me that when people started talking about the scoring of antlers, the heavy competition among hunters began. Instead of competing against the deer hunters began competing against each other.

Yes there always was the guy who took the big 12 pointer, but nobody bothered to reduce the act down to some kind of mathematical achievement other that the number of points. Most of us made up our own goals and satisfactions and didn't really need ways of keeping score as to who was the "greatest hunter" in our group. It was a lot more enjoyable back then too when the competition was between a hunter and the deer he was hunting rather than hunter vs. hunter. I wish there was some way to get back to that more personal motivation for hunting.