How many of you, disgusted with the damage picture, have ever made a bad shot on a deer. Gun or Archery they happen. I spined a buck with a horrible shot. I was on the ground and he came walking by uphill from me. I leaned out from behind the tree judged the distance and shot. Arrow went almost completely through the spine and had just fletchings showing. I grossly missguessed the yardage and shot way to high. I am sure someone could say "you did not practice enough on guessing yardage, you should know yardage not guess", "You should have been in a treestand with more ability to shoot at the proper humane angles to kill a deer." Bottom line is every hunter in the world has made a mistake I don't care who you are. Get over it move on.
Mistake being the operant word here. What Len did was on purpose not a mistake. If he had merely made a mistake I don't think you would have heard a word from anyone. We all make mistakes. I think they part they had a problem with is the fact that he did it on purpose. JMO
It seems we have, on this BB, way to much holier than thou attitude. We are such stone throwers when we see even the slightest hint someone used bad judgement we pounce on him and have our way. We smell blood in the water and start the frenzy.
I agree with you there. There are some here with hollier than thou attitudes that try to pass judgement on others. However, this is a message board and sometimes criticism can be a beneficial thing depending on how it's done and being a message board everyone has the right to voice an opinion. We should all, however, give more thought into how we do that.