ORIGINAL: Sooner State Hunter

My primary hunting spot is 3 hours away so during the week I hunt a few miles from my house in a small woodlot surrounded by a bean field and cow pasture. My goal for the spot was to shoot whatever got in range.

Well almost every night I've seen a doe and fawn but usually fromoutside of shootingrange. I watch the fawn playing with his mother and just doing what does and fawns do. I've never seen anymore than those two and I assume it's the same pair I see each night.

Yesterday, while I was moving a ground blind to a better ambush spot, a feeling came over me of sympathy and now I'm not sure I want to shoot either one. If there were others with them it would be different but I've enjoyed watching them every night and just not sure I want to kill 'em. Plus, if I wait a couple weeks a buck or two should start showing up.

In the past I've shot whatever and whenever without any remorse and I've stated so in past threads. I don't know if this is a sign of weakness or maturity? Anybody else see the same deer over and over and somehow lose the "want-to" to shoot 'em?