In the eyes of the law, no. It is still illegally harvesting game. If we all drew our own lines in the sand what would we have? Chaos. That said, for me, being in PA which is a one buck state, I have a hard time letting arrows go knowing that I can't shoot another. The situation that scares me the most is if I shoot a buck and am back out in the woods and see the monster of a life time. I hope that I would have the integrity to let him walk.