Maybe I am unethical. Maybe not. But its just me. I see 30 or 40 deer on the roadside just on the way to Morgantown WV, every fall. Maybe its cause we are so overpopulated with the deer. But it doesn' t break my heart to find deer that noone recovered. I don' t know if the ones I see that wasn' t recovered was shot with a bolt, or a semi. Maybe you can tell the difference. Hey maybe I am unethical.

But there was an incident that really bothered me last year.
I shot at a nice sika deer 6pt last year at 130 yards in the swamps in MD with a coppersolid slug out of my 12ga with rifled barrel and scope. I shot his whole front let off. I waited for the animal to lay down for an hour. Then low and behold, I see this deer hobbling thru the woods behind me. He somehow worked all the way around me. I took a bad shot thru branches, and grass, just to do anything to get him out of his misery. Well of course shooting thru brush at 30 yards is a waste of time. I never could find him. I spent 5 hours searching for him pissing off other hunters by walking near them splashing around. but in swamp water, blood is hard to see. All my hunting buddies, said don' t worry about it. But something about this deer really upset me. I mean I practiced alot at 100 yards. And took a few shots at 150 yards. I knew the bullistics. I was in a tree stand with a great gun rest. All things felt good. maybe I hit a branch. maybe I pulled. But these slugs are very expensive. Hard to do much practicing.