You are right, even feeling a spiritual connection to an animal doesn't make it pleasant for the deer to feel the arrow pierce its skin. Guess I was just idealizing being connected to nature, rather than bagging your limit.

I know a man who had herds of deer trampling through his homestead, destroying his garden. He finally got a rifle and license in self-defense. And there are arguments about managing wild populations, for the good of the most animals.

I don't dislike hunters. But when they are shooting on three sides of my property I wear a red hat, hah!