Yes sir my sentiments exactly. “Ethical hunting” is a bunch of crap. The “Ethical hunter” movement was started as a way to put yourself on a pedestal. I doubt anyone hunting to feed their family is posting on online forums, so at the root of it everyone is hunting for sport, but mention an unclean kill and everyone goes all peta on you. You’d have to be an Olympic trap shooter to hunt birds by the online ethical hunting standards, but oh yea no one cares about them.....Ethics of killing things, why are you killing them?
If you are killing them for consumption, it shouldn’t take any longer than it takes to reel in a marlin off the coast.
If you are killing them because they are a pest, it shouldn’t take any longer than poison takes to kill a rat.
The real concern would be does a squirl taste any worse if you don’t kill it DRT?
Anyone interested in a slow elk hunt? I pay a trained professional who kills slow elk DRT 2 days a week year round to do my shooting for me. He does head shots too, I guess it is the professional method of choice. Never worked consistently for me, but I’m no professional. My guy has never had one get away and a follow up shot would be extremely rare.