hawgdawg:

You are teaching the young man the right information and skills in the appropriate order. Does not sound like you laid a hard rule on him. You explained what you believed to be best for the management of the deer population, and he made his own decision. Nevertheless, until he learns more about taking wildlife, and eventually hunts using his own methods and ethics, there is absolutely nothing wrong with using your standards as an initial guideline.

Atlas: If he is being taught correctly, the young man will not wonder why he could not shoot the deer when someone else did. He may wonder why someone would shoot a deer that he would not. By being exposed to such experiences, he will learn that as long as an individual' s choices are legal, individual preferences will differ. In this case, maybe he learned that the other hunter may be a meat hunter, not a bone hunter, and that killing the 4-pnt did not devastate the population.