Here is a diffrent view point.

The type of hunter you are, may make it harder to remain legal and " ethical" .

Let me explain that statement, as it sure needs some explaining.

Hunters hunt for many diffrent reasons and combinations of reasons. If hunting for you is recreation, a pastime, a sport, a relaxing get away for your usual life, then you are not really too concerned if you kill something or not. You have a good time and obay the laws and hunt " ethically" and in a " sporting" manner.

If you were in a survival situation where you had to kill an animal to eat, the law and ethics would go out the window in a hurry. The Bushmen of Africa and the Aboriginies of Australia hunt to eat and are not concerned with " fair chase" and " ethical" hunting.

I believe that there are hunters among us who do not choose to hunt for sport and fun but ARE HUNTERS BY NATURE. They have the deep primative instinct to hunt animals for food. To them success is not just the icing on the cake it is the cake. They feel failure if they don' t succeed. For them it is very hard to not take a shot at a deer because, it is not legal to do so. Some do what ever is legal because they do not want to get caught and punished. Some bend the laws here and there. And some become what we call " poachers" .