If I was out hunting, and the buck of a lifetime stood up on the horizon and I only had a shot at his head and hind quarters (front shoulders obstructed), I'd put one right through his steaks, and finish him off quickly. I wouldn't think twice about it. Where I live, a gutshot or a steak shot is 100% legal means of taking, and I do not hesitate to act in such a manner.

I'm not gonna beat around the bush about this. I'm a hunter. When I'm in the field, I want to get a deer/turkey or whatever my quarry is. I do whatever is within the confines of the game laws to do it. I'm not on one of these holier-than-thou quests to see how humane I can be or try to act like god's gift to shot placement.

Yeah, I've gutshot a few, I've pinned them through the hind quarters. Fact is, I think I'm a very hard-nosed tracker and have rarely let a wounded deer get away. When it happens, it happens, and it bothers me, but I get over it and get back in the treestand.

Hunting isn't all peaches and lollipops. It's an activity that's not for the faint of heart and if you're so sad about shooting "Mommy" or "Baby" you might want to take up skeet shooting.

Every Pope & Young buck ever killed was some Mommy's Baby, and was probably some Baby's Daddy. Again, if that makes you sad, you should take up target shooting.

To each his own, I suppose.