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<blockquote data-quote="Deleted member 115360" data-source="post: 2084329"><p>No, but I don't believe there should be a stigma surrounding taking a risky shot. When you miss, you shouldn't feel guilty about it. Everything about hunting involves taking chances and calculated risks. There seems to be this artificial, (and very modern) aversion to taking a chance while hunting. Every time you decide the location you hunt you are making the best calculation you can and hoping you are right. Now, I'm not talking about people trying to take down a deer with a pellet gun at 800y, but like the young man above who attempted a double, got a clean miss and appears to be dealing with guilt over it. Hell, more than once in my life I've done everything right, had everything dialed, trained to death, had the right gun in the right place with the right ammo, and wounded an animal that I never recovered. If you bow hunt and pretend you are above taking a chance with an animal's life, you aren't being honest. If you shot and lost 3 deer a year with a bow, nobody would attempt to make you feel guilty, but missing a deer in what sounds like a rushed shot in an attempt to double up is wrong? </p><p></p><p>By the way, I am also a former B4</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deleted member 115360, post: 2084329"] No, but I don't believe there should be a stigma surrounding taking a risky shot. When you miss, you shouldn't feel guilty about it. Everything about hunting involves taking chances and calculated risks. There seems to be this artificial, (and very modern) aversion to taking a chance while hunting. Every time you decide the location you hunt you are making the best calculation you can and hoping you are right. Now, I'm not talking about people trying to take down a deer with a pellet gun at 800y, but like the young man above who attempted a double, got a clean miss and appears to be dealing with guilt over it. Hell, more than once in my life I've done everything right, had everything dialed, trained to death, had the right gun in the right place with the right ammo, and wounded an animal that I never recovered. If you bow hunt and pretend you are above taking a chance with an animal's life, you aren't being honest. If you shot and lost 3 deer a year with a bow, nobody would attempt to make you feel guilty, but missing a deer in what sounds like a rushed shot in an attempt to double up is wrong? By the way, I am also a former B4 [/QUOTE]
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