I can't tell you or anyone what to do or not to do, but any hunter that would tell me they would pass up a shot at a nice buck just because it was a few minutes before or passed the legal shooting time is probably lying through his teeth! They can pretend to be the goody-two-shoes and tell you that they wouldn't but I can assure you they would be getting the safety off and the scope on the buck if the opportunity actually presented itself. As they say, "talk is cheap"!