In fact, I'm not sure what hunting would be like with no goals? Do you just shoot anything that walks by, or decide when you see it, whatever it may be?
Like I said in an earlier post, having goals associated withkilling somethingisn't something that even enters into the equation for me. Just as you can't seem to relate to hunting with no goals I can't relate to hunting with them.Like I said before, deer hunting is just what I do. It's a choice and a life style. Kinda like flying planes wouldn't be a goal of a pilot but ratherthat's just somethinga pilot doesthen for me killing a couple of deer each season isn't a goal, it's just what I do. Now of course I would prefer to take a trophy buck just like every body else and pending on the year I may pass on several small buck in the hopes of a chance at a bigger one but sooner or later I wind up taking a couple deer.What theywind up being isn'tall thatimportant to me. Might be a couple doe might be a couple small buck or some combination. Again, it really doesn't matter.I don't set out each seasonto take an animal that fits some arbitrary criteria but rather to just be a deer hunter and enjoy the entire process and the outcome whatever it turns out to be.
Now BobCol19-65 said he has a goal to shoot striaght. That does make sense to me. Devloping specific skills to become as good a hunter as possible are goals that I can relate to. Just like the pilot may want to develop/improve his navigational skills. But again, flying planes for the pilot and killing deer (sometimesbig ones)for me are just a given part ofa life longprocess. I don't seethem as goals.
But again, I'm sure I'ma bit on the odd side of this...
but I find it a little strange that people actually set an actualgoal of killing a deer that fits some pre-specified criteria. It's fine with me that so many do this, I just can't relate.