frontier gander, it makes no difference if your dad told you to shoot it or not. What you did was illegal. You can justify it however you want, but it was illegal.

I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Phil about the story tellin. Starting with the 160 yard shot offhand. I seriously doubt many of us would even try that shot, ever, let alone with darkness closing in on the last day. I think many of us would not take a 160 yard shot on a deer even with a dead solid rest.

Each one of us has to decide what is right and wrong. I just disagree with your thinking.