When I first started hunting, a friend told me a story about how, before the days of cell-phones and websites, hunters used to take their deer to check-in stations. As my friend was waiting for his turn, an excited hunter told him, "This is my first deer!" "Oh," my friend said, "let me see." So the other hunter took him over to his truck and revealed his animal. "That's not a deer. It's a goat!" The newbie hunter's eyes got wide. He looked again at the sacrificed animal, glanced around to see if anyone else had noticed, then he jumped into his truck and drove off. ******* The most famous and quoted sentence from Ortega y Gasset's Meditations on Hunting, is as follows: "one does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted" (Ortega, 105). People often appeal to this quote to lend authority to the view that killing is essential to the hunt: that one can't have hunting without the intention to kill because