Personally, the bigger the deer the BETTER the shot has to be. Like someone said, hitting a losing a big buck is even worse than passing up the shot. Nobody wants to waste an animal of any size, let alone one that big.

Unfortunately, I know a lot of people who do just the thing we' re talking about here.

" Man, he was so big I couldn' t pass up the shot!"

I can' t count how many times I' ve heard that, only to find the buck dead months later. In fact, our hunting " group" has gotten a lot smaller by weeding out the hunters who take these bad shots. There is no room for that kind of behavior in today' s day and age. If anything, we should all be more cautious than ever.