Personal ethics

[KFhunter]

It's all up to you.  If it's legal it's good.   I can tell you, you won't shoot big bucks if you shoot the first ones you can though. That's a given.   Big bucks might be more important to you than freezer faire, maybe not. Changes can happen yearly.  I didn't notch last year for the first time in 33 years I think it was, because I didn't need a buck, and I felt the herd could use a break.   Trust me, I could have notched.   My choice.

You do all hunters credit 

[acnewman55]

Take the meat.


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[Magnum_Willys]

I enjoy the experience as much as the meat so I’m prone to passing up most everything until the last days of the season so I don’t lose hunting days.  This also gives me a better chance at a mature animal but it also means I get tag soup sometimes.   In the end whatever eats well is a trophy to be proud of.

[bearpaw]

I view ethics as being variable based upon personal opinion and what is lawful. I generally figure there are two primary types of hunters, meat hunters and trophy hunters and then there are hunters who are somewhere in between in one way or another. Sadly, too often hunters who lean towards one group are critical of the other group and fail to consider that it's a person's choice what type of hunter they choose to be. I fully agree with both types of hunting and wished all hunters would respect each other's right to hunt as they choose as long as it's within the law.

The meaning "trophy" is judged differently by each individual hunter!