I do not hunt over acorns, since we have none that I know of, or hunt on the edge of a plot.

To each thier own.

You don't have to go by my list of ethics, you can make your own. Tell us what your ethics are.

I have another one I just remembered.

If I am out hunting deer, I will only shoot a deer- I will not shoot a turkey even if presented with a shot.

I could go on forever on the subject of ethics but will instead put all my eggs in one baskett. The parts of hunting I hold dearest are the rules of fair chase. To me, hunting an animal by fair chase is the ultimate. Your wits matched with the animals. No cheating, just predator and prey doing what we've been doing for thousands of years.

Zak,How long have you been hunting? Just a question,ok?

Baiting is not legal in my state. But I'll sure hunt the acorns, apple orchards, alphalfa field edges, etc. which may be almost the same thing.

I hate to say it but I actually agree with datamax on this one.

Mother and baby???? That is too much of a touchy feely way to describe deer to me. I will not shoot the fawn but if the doe gives me a clean shot she is history. By hunting season fawns are weaned and can make it on their own. If deer season was in June that would be a different story.

Coyotes and hogs.. I don’t care when it is or how big or how many little ones they have behind them if I can get a shot off they will get shot at. They are a huge nuisance where I live.

Baiting... Where deer hunt if you want to kill one with a bow you are peeing in the wind IMO if you aren’t hunting over corn or at least acorns.

Deer Drives.. Are awesome. There is a lot of challenge to hit a deer at full blast with a shotgun. There is a lot of comrodery as well. Like it or not it is hunting. You ever watched the discovery channel? That is a method I have seen lions use. Run other animals into a trap.

Spotlighting is the lowest form of killing deer IMO. Would never do that.

One of the best statments I have read in a long time data cat.

I don't know if there is a correct given choice for every situation. Example I do not poach or believe in poaching for any reasons. Excpt a family that is starving and they need to eat. In todays world in the USA that is very rare. Anyway I stand by my point that I don't believe in poaching but if given the chance to kill a WOLF and not get caught you bet your but that I would do it in a heart beat. Why you might ask why? Well the wolves around here in Idaho were forced upon us by the stupid tree huggers. We are living and dealing with all their problems that they are creating. Even the local fish and game are tearing their hair out because their hands are tied. Biased (ie tree huggers) federal biologist come up with different stats than our local boys. In the units where the wolves are, the elk population is suffering. The tree huggers blame it on hunting of course, even though that 12 years ago (before the wolves) their was double the number of elk and double the hunters, figure that one out. I remember reading in the paper about two years ago a federal offical even told our local Fish and Game that they needed to limit the # of elk tags and hunters, along with the # of day allowed to hunt in cenrtal Idaho, like it used to be before the wolves were intoduced. Our local F&G just gave him the overall numbers of elk, and hunters/tags with harvest reports and season dates going back 20 plus years. Seeing for himself that the seasons were almost twice as long back then, with twice the number of hunters with twice the elk harvest, and twice the number of elk to be found. The Federal officer stated that either their counts were off or that central Idaho had some very bad winter kills and we in Idaho just didn't know it. He made it known though that the problem just couldn't be because of the wolves. The tide is starting to turn only because the wolves are creating a problem that can't just be covered up or overlooked by a simple excuse. Anyway back to my point would I kill a wolf here in Idaho? Your darn right I would, I would also kill its pups if I had the chance! Now on the other hand if I was in Alaska where the wolves have been and always will. Would I go on a wolf killing spree, I think not! I would kill one or more if I had a tag or tags. But I wouldn't break the law, like I want to do here in Idaho. Same goes for Idaho I hope we can hunt them and manage them and try to bring the problem under control because that what needs to be done. When that happens I wouldn't break the law then either. Just my 2 cents

If I was out hunting, and the buck of a lifetime stood up on the horizon and I only had a shot at his head and hind quarters (front shoulders obstructed), I'd put one right through his steaks, and finish him off quickly. I wouldn't think twice about it. Where I live, a gutshot or a steak shot is 100% legal means of taking, and I do not hesitate to act in such a manner.

I'm not gonna beat around the bush about this. I'm a hunter. When I'm in the field, I want to get a deer/turkey or whatever my quarry is. I do whatever is within the confines of the game laws to do it. I'm not on one of these holier-than-thou quests to see how humane I can be or try to act like god's gift to shot placement.

Yeah, I've gutshot a few, I've pinned them through the hind quarters. Fact is, I think I'm a very hard-nosed tracker and have rarely let a wounded deer get away. When it happens, it happens, and it bothers me, but I get over it and get back in the treestand.

Hunting isn't all peaches and lollipops. It's an activity that's not for the faint of heart and if you're so sad about shooting "Mommy" or "Baby" you might want to take up skeet shooting.

Every Pope & Young buck ever killed was some Mommy's Baby, and was probably some Baby's Daddy. Again, if that makes you sad, you should take up target shooting.

To each his own, I suppose.