he following comes from the Writer's Guidelines for Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine:

"Avoid graphic descriptions of blood and gore while being honest about the fact that game is harvested. Show respect for the game in both text and photographs. Some examples of ways to handle this follow.
No: Among the five of us, we had 50 dead geese piled up on the ground.
Yes: Each of us took our limit of geese.
(The body count is not important, but the way you treat harvested game is.)
No: On the way to my blind, I killed a rattlesnake.
Yes: On the way to my blind, I was startled by a rattlesnake.
(You may indeed kill a rattlesnake while hunting, but we don't want to hear about it, nor do we want to rile readers who object to such behavior.)
No: I cut a limb from a tree to probe for hidden obstacles in the water.
Yes: I used a stick to probe for hidden obstacles in the water.
(Harming vegetation is forbidden on most public land, and many private landowners don't appreciate it, either.) "