C903 and luke make some good points about the ethics issue with SOME bowhunters that don't take the time to make a good shot or make sure they have there bow and acc. setup properly. I for one in my first years of bowhunting didn't always do the right thing by making sure my bow was setup proper and taking not very good shoots, I didn't have anyone to guide me at early age as to was is right and what is wrong and how to do this or that, this does not make it right but with age and maturity I have grown into what I feel is and ethical hunter and I am big enough to admit that I have made mistakes(and i am not say anyone else here is or has been unethical in the past) but I did learn from them but again that doesn't make what I done right because it wasn't but I did take something from it.
To say someone is not doing the right thing by shooting a young animal is flat out wrong IMHO but that is my opionion not anyone else's and I will not try and push this on someone or down someone that doesn't beleive the way I do unlike some who have posted in this thread.
To say it is not hard to take a young deer is also wrong, there is a reason why the conservation depts allow this so the deer pop doesn't get sick or over populated CWD ring a bell to anyone???????
I have had more young deer bust me than the larger so called smarter deer every nice buck I have seen walk into bow range has bit the dust but the doe and yearlying deer have faired much better against me. But that is my observation yours may be different. If you want to trophy hunt that is fine with me but don't put down me for the way I hunt either. If I go out today and have a button buck walk up it is getting a arrow and I will be here posting it so you can bash me but you know what I don't give a crap what you say I done what the law allows and I will be proud of it.
I kind of like to think ANY deer is a throphy not just the one's that get hung on the wall!!!!