I think you are fine. My suggestion....take a camera and a rifle. Hunt just as hard as you ever have. Take lots of pictures and if a sure enough buck walks out and you feel the desire to shoot him then do it. If you don't feel like shooting him then grap the camera and get some good pics. Alot of the really good outdoor photographers got to be that way because they still wanted to hunt but they no longer wanted to kill anything.

-john