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<blockquote data-quote="Old teacher" data-source="post: 733614" data-attributes="member: 48420"><p>Augustus: sooner or later, we all have an experience like that, and as we go along, they become more and more frequent.. A couple of years ago, my partner and I drew doe tags for southeast WA. My partner punched his tag within an hour, and I was sitting a mile away above the breaks of the Snake river watching a group of does below me , some lying down and some feeding, and I was relaxing in the unseasonably warm weather in just a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. A couple of fawns were hopping around playing with each other, and I was tremendously enjoying just watching them. They were about 150 yards away, but almost straight down towards the river. I watched them through my scope, picked out a big doe, but never took off the safety. My partner returned with his deer and was befuddled that I had not shot one of the does. Shooting one of those deer would have meant three hours of hard work just getting her up from the canyon where she was feeding, and I don't particularly like venison anyway (except the backstrap and the liver), and I just didn't, on that day anyway, feel like killing something just to kill something. A true hunter is just that, a hunter who enjoys the out-of-doors and the hunt itself, and you do not have to kill something every time you go out to enjoy yourself. If you do, you are not a hunter, you are just a killer. I got far more enjoyment spending an hour in the sun watching those deer do what deer do than I would have gotten out of killing one just to punch my ticket. There was no doubt in my mind that I could have shot any one of those deer, and on that day, that was good enough, and I went home empty handed, but heart-full. Your decision not to shoot that coyote was the morally correct decision. He was just out trying to make a living and doing nothing to bother you, and having watched a number of coyotes, they are interesting animals to watch hunt. Your reward was that enjoyment and your decision to let him go his way is a feather in a true hunter's cap.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old teacher, post: 733614, member: 48420"] Augustus: sooner or later, we all have an experience like that, and as we go along, they become more and more frequent.. A couple of years ago, my partner and I drew doe tags for southeast WA. My partner punched his tag within an hour, and I was sitting a mile away above the breaks of the Snake river watching a group of does below me , some lying down and some feeding, and I was relaxing in the unseasonably warm weather in just a pair of jeans and a t-shirt. A couple of fawns were hopping around playing with each other, and I was tremendously enjoying just watching them. They were about 150 yards away, but almost straight down towards the river. I watched them through my scope, picked out a big doe, but never took off the safety. My partner returned with his deer and was befuddled that I had not shot one of the does. Shooting one of those deer would have meant three hours of hard work just getting her up from the canyon where she was feeding, and I don't particularly like venison anyway (except the backstrap and the liver), and I just didn't, on that day anyway, feel like killing something just to kill something. A true hunter is just that, a hunter who enjoys the out-of-doors and the hunt itself, and you do not have to kill something every time you go out to enjoy yourself. If you do, you are not a hunter, you are just a killer. I got far more enjoyment spending an hour in the sun watching those deer do what deer do than I would have gotten out of killing one just to punch my ticket. There was no doubt in my mind that I could have shot any one of those deer, and on that day, that was good enough, and I went home empty handed, but heart-full. Your decision not to shoot that coyote was the morally correct decision. He was just out trying to make a living and doing nothing to bother you, and having watched a number of coyotes, they are interesting animals to watch hunt. Your reward was that enjoyment and your decision to let him go his way is a feather in a true hunter's cap. [/QUOTE]
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