I'll be the first to agree that a hunt isn't about THE KILL, time spent with mother nature, family and friends is EVERY BIT, if not more important to me. BUT, if you ever walk into the woods with the weapon of your choice, you should have ALREADY made the decision to take an ethical shot on a legal animal. If you ever wake up facing the delima of weather or not to shoot then you have already wasted even the time it took to set your alarm. This is not to say you wake up and decide not to take say a 130 or better or the first 100+lb. doe whatever parameters you have set stick to them by any means, but you should have that decision made before you even go to bed the night before.