I can understand doing that. Lots of times it's just as much fun to know you "could have". Example, back in the 1970's I hunted with an "old timer", about my age now. We were both muzzleloader hunters and one day I noticed there wasn't a cap on the nipple of his rifle. I thought it had fallen off and mentioned it to him. He laughed and told me the rifle wasn't loaded. At that time that made no sense to me whatsoever. I'll never forget what he said....nothing particularly profound, just his view. He told me, best as I recall, "if I can get one close enough I could kill it, that's good enough. My season was a success". Seems the same to me, just different prey.