It is hard not to feel for someone who has had misfortune on a hunt.
Who wouldn't?
The obvious white elephant in the room is when that person is someone with thousands of posts about their experience, marksmanship skills, hunting accomplishments, and pages of advice to others. That bragging sets the bar high for themselves. No one else is doing that but them. OK to play cowboy as long as it is not all hat and no cows. Torture elk with novice mistakes and then expect sympathy? No.
Since we are now considering the ethics of the issue - and we obviously won't all agree on this; I'm not even going to throw out my take on it- would you: under similar circumstances and on open public land, punch your tag on this deal and quit hunting even as you trail the animal over the hill only to find another hunter, with oil still in his barrel, standing over 'your' animal with his tag attached?
