I guess it would all depend on what state - where you were hunting at and how many days you had to hunt.

Where I live, they have changed the rules to where you can shoot a doe the first day of the rifle season.

Nobody in my family will shoot a doe until atleast the first Saturday and most of us will wait until the last two days of the hunting season to shoot a doe.

Where as - if I didn't have any vacation days to hunt and only had the first day and the two Saturdays, I would have to think twice before I turned down anything that was legal.

I have had years where I didnt get a deer and I hunted 6 - 12 days of the season. When you have responsibilities and a family to feed. You have to decide if you are going to be honorable and let it walk - or if you are going to tag it and bag it.

Before you grill it, first you have to kill it.

I figured it out one year and a deer aprox. 125 lbs cost's me $4.00 a lbs to hunt it, kill it and process it. Which at that time, mininum wage was $3.35 a hour. Ground beef was $.99 a lbs. Now a good steak might cost you $10 and a good job might pay $10 a hour. Which would put the cost of hunting a deer up around $600 - $800 each.

Nobody could justify shooting a deer because their family needed the meat. You could make more just by going to work and buying it in the grocery store.