OH bullhockey. Put it this way, if you wound an animal on the first day of a 10 day hunt do you burn your tag and quit hunting? I appreciate the animal and place value on them, but I refuse to put them on a pedistal and call them Gods. With your line of thinking if you wound an animal you got to tag it. We have things happen and mother nature cleans them up. Do you tag a deer if it runs out in front of your car? It's the same animal that you just fed to the coyotes... why wouldn't you tag that one. It has nothing to do with respect for the animal. Some people want to place the animal on a pedistal in one case but not another. I admire and love them, but I'm not willing to give them more value than what they are, a resource to be used and admired. They're nearing problem sized herds in many areas. One fed to the coyotes won't make a lot of difference. It's unfortunate, but those things happen. I'm not ready to declare myself the martyr and tag a sack full of bones. The law doesn't require it. In fact, if I shoot a sick deer they'll give me another tag in most cases. It's all in the management process. Kills, wounded and lost are all figured in. I don't need to burn that tag to prove I have respect for the animal. In war we shot someone and left him where he fell. No one expected us to build a shrine or offer up some type of token "Respect for the animal". I don't feel I need to do that for Gods gift to us... venison.