The abovereminds of of a scene from a movie I saw recently, Gone Baby Gone.
It had to do with a kidnapping and there was one scene where a man confronts a child molester who had just killed a child and the way the scene unfolds is probably very accurate, but how the "good guy" feels later is probably accurate as well. Lets' just say he was right but there was no joy in what was done.



As far as killing deer, turkey, animals. I am no cold blooded killerbut at the same time I don't get too mamsy-pamsy about it either.To this day I can remember the first animal I everkilled(squirrel) and the way I felt immediately afterward, it didn't make me not want to hunt any more but it was there. I guess it is a mix of sympathyandcompassion, it's hard to sum up in words.

That feeling is a necessary one and IMO a good one. Kind of like the feelings of excitemnet and anticipation before and during a hunt. If I ever lose any of those feelings it might be time to take a break.
Hunting is a very personal, often solitary experience for most of us and I have found there is a broad range of emotions I feel while hunting and taking animals, those emotions are a huge part of the hunt, to me anyway, and I just don't think it would be the same if I were void of any of them.