RE: Peeing contest about ethics.
OK;here's my take on the subject.First of all we all live in a world where we really don't have to hunt for your food any longer and and if you use the old I hunt to put meat on the table line then your just full of it,with that said I do like the taste of deer and kill them becaue I want to not because I need to.This does not make me unethical,my personel preference is to shoot does( both young and old for meat and I tend to lean toward the smaller does when i am going for meat for myself) I choose to only shoot an older class of bucks,not necessarily trophies in everyones eyes but they do it for me and that is after all why I hunt for my enjoyment not others.If this makes me unethical in the eyes of others so be it I sleep good at night.As long as hunters kill in an human way and don't waste the meat and show respect for the animal then I have no problem with the way they choose to hunt and what they choose to kill.That is what makes hunting so great,some like the hunt,some just want the horns and some just want the meat and there is room for all of us to hunt the way we like as long as it is legal.Steve had some great remarks in his reply,if you shoot the young bucks then don't bitch about there not being any big boys around.Don't knock another hunter for shooting a legal deer either just because you might not happen to agree with his choice, we all have different views and they are not limited to hunting.If everyone was the same then we would only need one brand of bow,imagine that.