Gus...no offense...but last post on the subject...
Fair enough, but I'll answer your question.
Why is it OK to kill ANY ANIMAL you intend to eat? Why is the man taking his steer downto the abbatoir not getting the 3rd degree from people? He never claimed a glory story or that he was "hunting" either. He killed a steer
My question is not centered around the eating of the animal. That's the least we can do if we kill it IMO.
The fence and the deer are the problem. As you had mentioned many times before, you go to great lengths to advance the sport of bowhunting. ie; calling it harvesting rather than killing and not showing blood and guts in pics to the non hunters for fear of offending them. However you have justified shootinga fenced wild animal because it's simply "grocery shopping". How would those same people (that you fear offending) thinkof a hunter shooting a fenced deer..... doe or buck?
When you have to use the old "steer anology" to justify your means of hunting your argument is weak IMO. I'm sorry Jeff, but they are not the same.
Have a good one!