i have to chuckle a little at new hunters like that... we have to hope they have good teachers/influencers, but we don't always get what we want... and guess what, I'd be willing to bet that even the most ethical of hunters will have other hunters disagree with their ethics (look at the tag it or not thread from a few weeks back for a perfect example)... all you can do is plant a few "seeds" and hope they grow... these guys will learn over time what to do, not everyone has the benefit of knowing experienced hunters, so they learn a lot on their own... i wouldn't hold it against them in any way, we've all had to learn some stuff the hard way thru our hunting lives... of course, if i had been the newbie at the counter and someone started preachin at me about ethics and blah blah blah i woulda gotten defensive and probably shouted back at the guy and stormed out of there thinkin he was a major league pr!ck...

imho, better to have said nothing than to have alienated a new hunter...