RE: Television show: Beyond the hunt?
...if you have no emotion when you take a nice animal or miss one, then you do not belong in the hunting woods any more. Then its just killing to keep score. That is just disrespectful to the resource and the sport.
Or you hunt entirely for food, and the miss was a mistake that should be analyzed and fixed in the future, or the hit was a useful but not completely happy end.
But then, I'm an OCD science nerd and a functional sociopath due to experiences. My parents hunted out of necessity, and I only started because it made economic sense.