Scott:

While it is nice to have a mindset about being willing to hunt in an emergency situation, it is more important to do so before hand.

You have to kill the animal without going through a moral question and answer period that might put a quick kill out of range.

You have to retreive the dead animal without thinking of what you did to something that has not done you any harm or threatened you.

You have to gut, skin, and in some cases remove musk glands to prevent the animal from becoming unpaletable.

You have to prepare the animal for consumption or preservation for future use.

Doing the mental exercises and having the instructions on proper proceedure are all well and good, but it is a "blood ritual", and until you spill the blood and eat the harvest you can not really know.

Bountyhunter

(PS The first time you get "hives" after handling an animal, you will swear that you will never do that again, but you will.)