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by nonameface 4082 days ago
Not all hunters are trophy hunters, that is just a subset of hunters. Numbers from my state show close to a 50/50 split between antlered/anterless (Note: Anterless may contain some bucks, but the hunter thought they were shooting a doe)

http://wvmetronews.com/2015/01/16/final-numbers-on-2014-deer... The breakdown on each season: Firearm Buck season 37,766 bucks, antlerless firearms hunting, 39,514 antlerless deer, archery season, 21,653 deer and 5,290 deer during muzzleloader season.

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But are the anterless hunters doing it because they want to? Or because they are forced to by law?

Meaning, all hunters are actually trophy hunters, just that for every trophy they bag, they must haul out -- at their own expense -- non-trophies.