Maybe you do show hunting in a positive light, and I understand it must be difficult to please everyone. I dont know you well enought to judge, but this time, I think you under-emphasized the importance of a thorough tracking and recovery job.
No we just disagree. I don't personally feel they are mutually exclusive. I think you can shoot two and still do a thorough job of tracking both. If you shot a doe and were sure you made a killing shot and 15 seconds later a 180 class buck runs in, you aren't going to shoot him? Now that may be an easy question for you to answer here but I wonder if it would be as easy while you were in the stand. It's one thing to preach your ethics from the pulpit but do you back them up in the stand. I am just telling you what I have done what I will continue to do. If that doe is dead she is going to be dead when I get there and giving her time only helps my odds. If you think it's unethical then you shouldn't do it because ethics are determined by the individual not by society or other hunters. The anti hunters don't think shooting deer with a bow is ethical at all, no matter how you go about it. But you don't want them deciding your ethics for you, do you? You probably wouldn't appreciate being called unethical by them just like I don't appreciate being called unethical by you because my personal ethics differ from yours. I may have been guilty or not emphasising the importance or tracking but no more guilty than you are for jumping to conclusions and being to quick on the trigger to portray another hunter as unethical. JMO