<font color=green>WHAT IS THE ETHICAL ANGLE TO SHOOT A DEER AND HAVE IT DIE QUICKLY?</font id=green> I think this is a good question. I also think a deer doesn't have to be quartering away or broadside for a good shot. But I guess thats not ethical, I have one bear to my name and alot of small game, a few geese taken with a bow. I have had many a chance for a deer but couldn't get close enough, the only shot I have ever taken at a deer out of all of my chances through since I was 14 was at a Spiker in late winter season, and I missed. At the time I was my towns top 3-D junior and could even out shoot alot of the adults. When you study an animals anatomy you can figure that there are alot of shot angles that are produced that you can use. It's only really a matter of the shot distance, and your accuracy at that shooting distance. If you can group in a quarter at 20metres and you know an animals anatomy well you could pretty much pick a major artery and drop the animal quickly. In my time in Fort McMurray, I have seen and heard of people with rifles, hunt in groups, they see a deer on the side of a logging road, they all hop out and start shooting this poor doe, by the time they are done, it is riddled with holes, the deer never went anywhere. Do I consider this humane and good hunters ethics? Heck NO. This is the reason that it was hard for me to get close to deer for so many years hunting around Fort McMurray. After moving to calgary to go to school, this was my first season back in about 1-2 years, I only went hunting about 4 times, Chance were presented, but I never took any shots. I havent had a deer with a bow in all of the seven years of hunting with a bow and with the 12 years of shooting experience. Do I find this sport challenging, heck yeah, do I still love it even without shooting a deer as of yet, heck yeah, do I still beleive in hunting and think that people should hunt even after hearing about all the woundings, yes. The day we start hunting at night, that will be the end of hunting. But I don't think that
technology is that bad for hunting, I do on the other hand feel that lazy people are. The challenge of hunting, is shooting an animal for its meat, sometimes rack, tracking the animal after it has been shot and finding it no matter how far you have to walk. The challenge is also getting out in the woods and trying to enjoy yourself with out thinking about anything but the great outdoors. Technology can infringe on us, if we allow it. But you don't have to have all of the fancy equipment to get a deer and enjoy yourself.
Enough is Enough when you say it is enough.
Good shooting
and hunting.
Dylan

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