Have I ever regretted killing a deer? Yes a few times. Is that negative satisfaction?
What made you regret it?Have I ever regretted killing a deer? Yes a few times. Is that negative satisfaction?
I have less than zero use for a canned or high fence hunt. Same for spotlighting or other illegal means of taking game. Like I mentioned previously, everything up to the shot I view as the hunt. That act is separate from the act of killing or taking the shot. I have killed deer when I just barely got in woods and a shot opportunity presented itself. There wasnt really a hunt in those cases. The satisfaction in that case was with executing a clean shot and quick kill, a independent act from the hunt. Much better to me is having the hunt too and then completing the kill. Saturday, I spent the first half of the day scouting a new area on a big piece of public. I did not find anything that looked good enough for me to hang on yet. I did find a couple of spots that will need eyes again in a couple of week though. The afternoon was spent checking 5 different spots on a different piece public that I know well. Again none of the spots looked good enough to hunt yet but will be hot later. For the day, I did not climb a tree but saw 20ish deer, had a run in with a mama bear with 3 cubs at 35 yards, and covered 11 miles of beautiful river bottom ground. It was a good hunt because I eliminated a lot of ground for the rest of the season, learned a lot of spots that may be great in years to come and found some spots that should get really good a little later this season, saw a bunch of game and had a cool encounter with the bears even if it did get a little uncomfortable for a few seconds.So...if it's all about the kill, how do you feel about canned hunts?
I live in an area where I could kill several deer a night with a spotlight and a .22wmr. Super rural. Out of everything but sheriff jurisdiction. Anybody who I met with at night would likely be doing the same thing I was.
Don't get me wrong, I like killing deer. But if you found me a job where all I did was bonk them on the head as they came down the assembly line for 40 hours a week...i'd pass.
I hunt to kill, but I guess my testosterone has dropped enough I can admit I don't just hunt to kill.
I have only had one that upon recovery I was disappointed. It wasnt the hunt or the kill that was disappointing it was my lack of recognizing the deer. The deer I killed was a 3 y/o that looked very similar rack wise to the buck I was hunting that was older. I saw the rack and failed to look at the body characteristics to correctly identify the young buck from the older buck I was hunting. I was happy with the kill just not with the hunt because I did not master all of the aspects I intended too.Have I ever regretted killing a deer? Yes a few times. Is that negative satisfaction?
What made you regret it?
I've killed several that were more than I bargained for finding and getting back to the truck. I've killed a few where I had to run late for work. Killed one that made me late for a party.
No ragrets!
Amazing we were typing the same thing in different threads concurrently.I like @boyne bowhunter take on this. I want every hunt to last till the last second of legal and season time to punch every tag. Get all the juice you can out of the tag and the season!
No that's not negative satisfaction, that's what's called good old "type 2" fun. I've had me a many of type 2 fun hunts. I once killed a mouflon sheep on a close to shear hillside. 450 yards from where I shot it. Getting that thing off the mountain sucked horribly at the time. But I look back on the hunt fondly now. Same goes for another hunt when I was on Guam this past spring, shot a pig that dove into the the thickest densest vegetation I've ever come across. It was one of the worst tracks I've ever been on. But I have good memories from it, and I'll probably do it again next year.........Have I ever regretted killing a deer? Yes a few times. Is that negative satisfaction?