"selling out"
 

If you are targeting a certain animal (for whatever reason), be it a deer, turkey, bear, elk etc., and you don't kill that certain one but you kill one you aren't targeting...do you feel you sold your self out? Or, do you not shoot any animal BUT the one you are targeting. Interested in the responses.

RE: "selling out"
 

I'm yet to target a specific animal. When the right one walks by, I shoot it. Be that a buck, doe, or a turkey.

RE: "selling out"
 

I got a little credit for targeting a specific buck I shot last year. Truth be told.....if another deer close to its caliber had strolled by.....he'd be (hopefully) in my avatar and NOT the one I ended up taking.

Would I felt like I "sold out"? Nope. I'd have taken advantage of the situation. Am I glad it worked out the way it did?

;):)

RE: "selling out"
 

Once they are in range, then they become a target

RE: "selling out"
 

I dont trget any one deer,if it looks good hopefully it goes down.

RE: "selling out"
 

Every year I develop a "hit list" based on the deer I am familiar with(Photos, sheds and encounters.) If an unfamiliar deer shows up that meets the criteria I've already established in creating my list, I'll whack him. To me a sellout would be shooting a deer that doesn't meet my standards just for the sake of taking up space on the meat pole.

RE: "selling out"
 

how could you not?

RE: "selling out"
 

If I am targeting a certain deer, I usually do not shoot a different one.

I said usually because I did shoot a deer I had mistaken for a different deer. I felt a bit bummed, but not like I sold out.

RE: "selling out"
 

I don't consider it a sell out in the least, the ranch I hunt is in a part of Texas where we have whitetail, axis, fallow, sika, audad, mouflan, stag and elk and various other all free ranging (no fences), therefore I can't consider it a sell out at all b/c you never know what you will see when hunting this place.

RE: "selling out"
 

I really target a specific deer. I will have deer on camera that I want to take, but again I don't really say I am hunting for this ONE deer. With that being said, I do have a "type" of buck I am hunting for and will not shoot anything that does not meet the requirements. I would think it would be really hard to hunt one buck. I know in my part of Illinois, once the rut starts you may not even see the bucks you have been getting trail pictures of and will see bucks that you have not seen all year.