What deer would you take ? Opinions please

I have shot lone fawns in the late muzzleloader season. If hunting by myself and don't have to split the meat, its enough for me and is the best for the pot...:)
 
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We party hunt here and I generally only shoot bucks. Last season we only had one doe tag in the group, and that gentleman had to leave early in the week. I passed on several fawns early in the am on opening day, then shot an older doe with 2 fawns. I knew she was 4.5+ years old as I keep pretty good tabs on the local herd. Both fawns were really big and travel as part of the larger group of does. I felt that management wise, I was better to take an older doe nearing the end of her reproductive years, than a fawn that was likely to produce many more fawns in the future.
 
When I do decide to fill an antlerless deer tag or two I often will shoot a fawn. An ideal situation for me is to watch a group of deer and select a yearling. I base this selection on body size alone. There's certainly room for error in there but it makes me feel good.
 
I wouldn't shoot either....My freezers are always pretty full, I don't need venison that bad. Let the does breed and the little guys grow up.
Bucks and bulls only, no cows, does, fawns or calves for me.
 
Doe and fawn, neither, either.
Doe with more than a couple followers, take the bigger
of the followers.
Proves she's a good mom, leave her be.
 
First if the shot presented itself would be the fawn, a nice easy drag and tastes great, the doe if its the only shot I had. Meat first, horns second.
 
Doe.

If it's legal, it's going in my freezer. No need for me to micro-manage the regulations. They write the rules, I stick to 'em, not re-write them.
 
Neither, years ago moose hunting was there upon a cow and calf, no cow tag. Calf was shot, cow would not leave and would not let two of us close to the dead calf. We left and came back 2hrs later with more help only to find the cow trying feverishly to get the calf up. Finally it gave up when we had four guys to walk in and drag out calf all while the cow looked on from 40yds or so. Not a good scene and I don't need meat that bad to ever take a young from it's mother. Call me a sucker but IMO there's no great memories to a hunt like that. Now I target big full grown lone animals.
 
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Neither, years ago moose hunting was there upon a cow and calf, no cow tag. Calf was shot, cow would not leave and would not let two of us close to the dead calf. We left and came back 2hrs later with more help only to find the cow trying feverishly to get the calf up. Finally it gave up when we had four guys to walk in and drag out calf all while the cow looked on from 40yds or so. Not a good scene and I don't need meat that bad to ever take a young from it's mother. Call me a sucker but IMO there's no great memories to a hunt like that. Now I target big full grown lone animals.
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x2……I've passed a cow and calf this year, and last year I passed up a doe and two fawns. Can't bring myself to shoot a mom and/or her baby(s). I'm not even keen on shooting young males, I'm talking 4 points or less. So I guess I'm a sucker too. :)
 
Humanizing hunting is the tool of the antis.

These are animals with NO human traits or "feelings".

Harvesting cows or yearlings are conservation tools needed to maintain a healthy population.

Fine if you don't want to shoot them but don't humanize it by painting a picture of hunters ripping babies out of their mother's arms.

Dusty23 said:
x2……I've passed a cow and calf this year, and last year I passed up a doe and two fawns. Can't bring myself to shoot a mom and/or her baby(s). I'm not even keen on shooting young males, I'm talking 4 points or less. So I guess I'm a sucker too. :)
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Hay yomomma, one has to live with his own heart.
Keep the nonsense to yourself.
Pretty hard to eat a nice veal meal if the taste buds feel awful
trying to savour it.
 
Hey yourself Kamlookey

No issue with people deciding what to shoot or what to eat.

We don't need to further the anti's cause though, by calling them mothers and babies and giving them human emotional traits.
 
yomomma said:
Hey yourself Kamlookey

No issue with people deciding what to shoot or what to eat.

We don't need to further the anti's cause though, by calling them mothers and babies and giving them human emotional traits.
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I think you need to spend more time in the woods observing animal behaviour without a rifle in your hands.... Antis also portray hunters as cruel heartless people that shoot everything in sight and call it "management".....

Maybe you should try and get between a momma bear and her cubs sometime if you don't think they have any "feelings".... You'll learn fast....
 
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