That is a very hard question to answer. ...... Diplomatically!
I enjoy the hunt and the kill is inevitabley part of that. Hunting means to me that I am bound to take another animals life for the sake of food and pleasure. When I arrowed my first deer I was exstatic. I have thought about that moment ever since. It also wasn't the same as a rifle or muzzleloader hunt. The game was generally closer and I was more excited. That young buck bawled for 50yds and then fell over stone dead. I didn't feel too good about the noise that he made, but whenI found him dead at that distance I felt good. It felt good to make a good (decent on this one) shotandTO KILL QUICKLY.
I have lost game when hunting. 2 deer to be exact. One was mine and one was a friends.We trailed these deer for miles until it became too dark and then rtn'd inthe morn.My deer had been eaten by critters. My friends we never found....... it had snowed 6" overnight and I still was marking her trail for another 300yds B4 we lost her in the morning. I beleive this is the hardest thing to deal w/ when hunting. LOST GAME. I had limited satisfaction in my deer.... the fact is it only went another 100yds B4 bedding down and dieing. It was just too thick and too far in the bush to go any farther.
I also got satisfaction from the fact that I/we did the right thing and went back in the morning to search for my friends deer even though it had just snowed. The satisfaction also came b/c I had found her trail and worked it for another 300yds, losing it on so many ocassions that I can't count and then back-tracking to find it again. No blood just hundreds of deer trails and only one dragging a front leg in the snow. Consolation prize during this tracking job was the fact we had jumped a REAL nice 5x5 from his bed in a clearing.
Do I enjoy the act of killing. No Itake satisfactionin the act of killing quickly and efficiently.
And by the way my cats name is FINN, and I got him the yr he passed away..... I'm a big fan of his work and think that he was a true outdoorsman, scholar and a gentleman. I greatly miss his work.