I came from brown and down ancestors, but I took a different road starting at about 22 yrs. old(I'm now 39)... Since then, I feel like I've been a good steward of the herd in both counties I hunt. Both have historically been on the high end of bonus doe tags, and I have rarely killed more than a buck, and one doe, during any given year, and went home some years with a belly full of tag soup.... I've done my part to conserve the herd, and as stated in my first post I intend to return to a "let 'em go" mentality later on in life. A growing and hungry family is the #1 factor in this temporary change, and it wasent a change I came to easily... but as I was thinking on the matter, one thing I concidered is all my neighbors. I didn't use to have any neighbors on my best place...I could let deer walk and see 'em again in a couple days. Those days are gone. I'm surrounded on every property line by brown and downers(or at least I assume so, from all the shooting) It's gotten so bad I've really made a different place my primary. Well, if they want every deer on that end of the county dead, I will help 'em out, I could use the groceries.... Maybe when all the deer are gone, all the people will be gone too, things will come full circle and it will just be me and Jesus on the hill again...