Your ethics?
 

Of your personal hunting ethics, which do you consider to be your most important...an ethic that you never ever even think about compromising on.

It is hard to explain but as an example, I would say that my biggest "ethic" that guides me in all of my hunting adventures is not losing downed or wounded game. If I shoot a deer I really go over the top to find it. My friends will always call for help and advice with their deer and I never say no. Even if I have to cancel something to help out, I do it. I just can't stand the thought of a deer wasted, lost to the coyotes or worse, dead someplace that non-hunters can find it.

I just wanted to hear what "internal standards" guide other hunters.

Greg

RE: Your ethics?
 

1. You shoot it you eat it, no exceptions.
2. If it is not sure shot, don't take it.
3. You shoot it, find it, tag it.

There is no grey area for this items. . . .

RE: Your ethics?
 

i would have to say for me it is respect the animal you are hunting be it doe or trophy buck they are living animals. if you respect them you will take the time to practice with your weapon of choice (hoyt viper for me)you will also take the time to scout for the best ambush position you will pick your shot well and then you will do what ever it takes to claim your trophy. personaly thats my most important hunting ethic "RESPECT".



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RE: Your ethics?
 

I don't eat every deer that I shoot. But I have a friend that doesn't get to hunt much that loves venison. He gets a couple of deer from me every year. I call this payment for letting me hunt on his ground occasionally. He returns the favor with fresh fish in the spring and summer for my family. Ethics, I play by the book and do what I feel is right...taking injured deer out of the herd, planting food plots, not shooting plots. I do what I can to help out the herd. They feed me, I feed them.

RE: Your ethics?
 

I would have to say Respect of the whole hunt! From the great respect I have for the whitetail by giving it a fair chance to the respect I give the woods I hunt. Putting my time in practicing, scouting and thinking of the end result of a shot I take before I take it! Knowing my limitations. I truly belive the you get what you put into it! I have personaly expierenced it this past five years! I put more and more time in and it pays off. I enjoy doing it!:)

RE: Your ethics?
 

Making a high percentage shot only,never waste anything you kill. If you kill it you eat it.

RE: Your ethics?
 

Not taking stupid shots.[:@][:@]

Clean, quick kill.

RE: Your ethics?
 

I would say the biggest for me is not taking a shot your sure you can make. There is really no excuse for it these days with rangefinders and newer sights. You can even pace distances off when you set your stand if you don't have a range finder. I hate hearing people say, "I think I hit him?" or "I think it was a good shot?". That drives me crazy. Sure everyone will miss at one time or another, but some just fling arrows at anything and hope they hit it. And if you had proper form you would see exactly where the arrow hit the deer any way.

Another pet peeve would be those that are not qualified to even be in woods with a weapon. You hear how they missed or wounded one or something. Then you get the opertunity to see them shoot and they are horrible. No where near good enough to be shooting at live game from a tree stand. They shoot a week before season and expect to hit everything they shoot at. I sort of understand with a bow, but with a gun, c'mon, it's a freakin rifle. If you miss it was your fault pure and simple. You either pulled the shot, shot at something that was too far away, or need to practice more.

Gun season is the same way. I sit in my blind during the first week of gun season and I hear a shot, then five more a few seconds later one right after onother. There is nothing in my area that requires six shots in 10 seconds from a shotgun to kill it. I think you should be limited to two shots at the most. One to shoot at the animal and another in the off chance you need a quick follow up shot to finnish it off. I use a inline ML for gun season though. If I can't get it done with one shot I'm done pretty much.

Another one would be people that hunt much later than they should. They come walking out of the woods saying they could still see well enough to count points if they had to. And it's dark out, not twilight, but freakin dark out. Bull crap. Your just asking to miss or shoot the wrong thing when your doing this. The hunting time are outlined very well for you, you should know enough to follow them.

Paul

RE: Your ethics?
 

Mine would be the importance of taking ONLY a shot that I KNOW I can make. I will never compromise a shot angle or try to extend my range while hunting. These are games you play on the 3D range NOT in the field on flesh and blood! It amazes me how many people have good ethics but then they seem to fly out the door when the "rack" becomes big enough??? [&:]

RE: Your ethics?
 

I've just started going after whitetail with a bow this year - beginning of November to be exact. In my few ventures I have actually already had a run in with a decent 8 pointer with about an 18inch inside spread. Anyway, ethics? I drew bow waiting for it to get close enough. At 35 yards it spots the movement of my bow following its. He stops and we look dead at eachother for a whole 10 seconds as he confirms that I'm not just a part of the tree. I could've let the arrow fly but the shot wasn't perfectly clear of small branches. Even if I could squeeze the arrow through the branches, 35 yards is out of my bow's range in that predicament. I watch, heart pounding and all as it turns and heads back from where it came.

Had I hit him, it would've probably been in a less than ideal spot and more than likely been a loss and waste of a bigish buck.