Originally Posted by
Magic
Ethics. How about Hunter Ethics. Suppose you have ONE tag left and shoot a VERY nice 8 pointer. Your best deer ever. Before you can climb down from the stand, a HUGE 12 pointer walks up and stands over the downed 8 point. You know that this buck will make B&C. Do you shoot???
You only had 1 tag. If you shoot, what do you do with the "other" deer? You now have an illegal deer. Do you then lie to B&C to have it entered?
I know that my example was different than yours, but it still boils down to ETHICS !!! The true test of a man is "what he will do when no one is watching and he knows that no one will ever know but HIMSELF" !!!
Now this would be a hard one...I believe to be honest I would shoot if the deer was that big! hopefully my son or buddy has an empty tag for the other deer....you said be honest!
As for shooting across the river or property line, no I wouldnt, not if I didnt have permission to hunt that area.
not sure what the difference is but there seems to be one?