RE: Situation Ethics????........2 Part Question .................................................
1. Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt. I didn't shoot the deer (or shoot at it). I grunted, rattled, snort wheezed, and then watched him walk by. It was an easy decision not to shoot, it's just the way I was brought up and the right thing to do. Did I "WANT" to shoot? Absolutely! But regardless of how bad I wanted to, I knew that it wasn't right.
From that point on, it was really easy... I knew that if I sat at that stand, I still wasn't going to shoot.
2. I'd kill him, and go get him... no questions asked. Sometimes (Flame me if you want to) morals and ethics outweigh legality IMO. Who's to say that the same thing couldn't happen if you were sitting 100 yards from the fence? I'd go get the deer then as well.