B&C,
I agree to a point - ethics are individual. That is why we call them ethics and not laws. That being said, everything we do in the woods effects everyone else in the woods. To use someones example, that deer with the arrow in his butt walked through some old ladies yard last night and now she thinks that everyone who hunts is a heartless SOB out to hurt animals. I think that if you can make the shot, take the shot but if there is a doubt, do me and every hunter a favor and hold off. Mistakes happen but by the way some people talk, many could be avoided in the first place.

[:@]Now as far as bowhunters wounding more game, I' ll find the stats on that one. I know that that is absolutely false, both from personal experience and from the wounding studies I' ve read. Speaking personally, at 30 yards and less, I can shoot as accurately as anyone on this board. You use your gun and I' ll use my bow! Put hair on the target and get our hearts pumping and I' ll bet both of our groups get bigger. I' ve wounded two deer in the last six years with my bow. (Yes, I am embarrassed. I' m not bragging!) When you consider that I' ve shot six deer a year with my bow over that time, those numbers (36 and 2) don' t say that I am out wounding game.

Greg