No apologies needed. I think we all know what hunting means and all of us have our own set of standards we have set. Mine does not include the necessity to kill a deer, if it did I would shoot every buck that got close, but that is the ultimate goal that I try to achieve each season. And the more effort required the more I enjoy that ultimate goal.

I did just get back from hunting and had a big 8pt manage to slip around me without offering a shot this morning, didn't matter that I had the compound. I also had a doe at about 10yds that spooked when I drew on her last week that would have been a perfect set up for a quiet recurve, but the sound of my arrow sliding across the rest was more than she could take.