Unless the game is close, the last couple of minutes of legal shooting time is shaky ground. Things change rapidly during those last couple minutes and nothing about it is good.
Battue,
Agreed
I should add one thought.
I keep a Coast LED lenser P7 in my pocket. That thing puts out 200+ lumens and will light up a 4 foot diameter circle as bright as daylight when it's defocused. Focused, it will allow me to finish one out past 100 yards if need be. The LED color is almost perfect for spotting blood.
Knowing that I have as good a light as I might need short of the sun and long battery life does affect my decision to shoot or not at times. I would say it has more bearing on the decision to shoot or not than the caliber of the particular rifle, or the optics I have on it, that I have at the time. If I forgot the light back in the cabin, I almost never shoot at last light. I can shoot five deer/year and I would much rather come back the next morning and hope for another chance than shoot one and have to leave it over night.
