The pig's and sheep and cow who's soul purpose is to be taken and slaughtered for there meat, do the deserve any less then these deer. The tree's that are cut, and habitat lost with millions of species all over the world, to plant soy feilds and any other crop that vegitarian's eat, does that not deserve a second look. I sit here and read the worry about anti-hunter's but they don't seem to worry how many animals they kill in the process of cultivating land for their food sources. As far as poor shot's, and being taught to only look for a rack. That isn't me, I could care less if the deer I get has antler's or not, as long as it fills my freezer and I enjoy its bounty through out the winter and spring. If I take a broadside shot, quartering away shot, who's to say whether or not something will go wrong. A 34 yard or Metre shot at a deer that is at a run or slow run, is not a shot I would take. The probablility is far gone out the window with that one. But a quartering to shot, or even a straight on chest shot with a deer that is not moving or not alert, I think those have a good probability factor, given the shot is within a persons comfortable range, and the peron has experience with live animals. As far as ethic's. It's a moot point, how can one person or a group of people, that can't even grasp what the word ethical mean's, push those of us who always have ethics in the back of our mind in the hunting community around. Why do we allow people that would sooner tear down forest's and tree's killing hundreds, even thousands of species. So they can have crop's from which to feed themselves. With human's it will always be a never ending conflict, hunter's can't win but neither can anti hunters. So lets just be ethical, because it's what we should do, for ourselves and the animals we hunt. If you or I feel comfortable taking a quartering to shot and are willing to put the time into tracking and everything else a hunter must do then do it. Just a few thought's. Good shooting.
Dylan

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