My mantra if you will is...pick a spot, see the shot, execute. Pick a spot is just that picking a tiny spot on the animal I want to hit. See the shot encompasses draw, anchor and alignment check and execute is the transition into pulling through to break a clean shot.
As for the anxiety of watching an animal before you have a shot opportunity. Remember that until that animal is in your effective range, you are still hunting so relax and enjoy the encounter cause you cant kill him yet anyway. Once you or it is in your effective range is when killin time starts...
It sounded like you were referring to a similar incident here in Little Rock where the homeowner was shot and killed because he was trying to defend his home from a pre-dawn raid like that...
Depending on where you were hunting, it was not far from that back in the early 90's. It has always been bad here in certain areas and esp if we had good numbers of ducks.
I think we still agree or at least from my perception we do. Thats why I said the hunt you want is primary consideration. My year this year is a good example. Hunting with my longbow I have had 8-9 encounters with mature bucks between 12-35 yards that resulted in no shot. Almost all of those...
Because regenerative farming didnt start gaining any sort of foothold or even discussion until corporate farming had replaced family farming. It takes a good bit of time to make the conversion and really see what alternative practices can do and corporate farming is about today not tomorrow...