After I put their tongues back in their mouth, put what antlers arent being mounted in a glass case in a room for all to admire, eat the intrials, and all of the other meat, make a buckskin coat, make a gun rack with it's feet/legs, and make abow stringwith the sinew, I dance around a fire and chant wonderful things to gods that dont exist and pray to the God that does exist and then offer my first born on a firey alter.

What is the so called stopping point of 'respect'. Is it clean kill? Making all efforts for arecovery? (obviously that much)

Is it making sure all of the meat is used?

Is it making sure all of the meat and some of the organs are used?

Is it making sure all of the meat and all of the organs are used as well as mounting the rack or not harvesting a buck at all if you are not?

I could go on with many combinations of meat usage, organ usage, skin useage, ect.... but you get the idea.



For me it is quick, clean kill, using the meat, POSSIBLY liver and maybe heart if I can get them without being messed up. Ive gotten to where I try not to take the smaller bucks, but sometimes it happens. Not for the purposes of thinking taking smaller bucksis unethical, but just in the hopes that they'll stay around and maybe one day be bigger thanmy biggest buck.

EDIT: and as un-Godly as I can be sometimes, I feel ashamed I forgot this part as I read over some previous posts that were made while I was typing....I say a small prayer and thank the Lord for the opportunity that he has given me. For some reason, that's when I feel closest to God...even when I go make it to church. lol