Lazy,

Where I hunt we have a very good doe to buck ratio (no rifle hunting).
We have many deer and many doe tags are available.

I do not shoot does (or young bucks) because I simply have no desire to do so. What drives me to be in the woods almost every week from Jan to Sept (scouting) and then 2 to 3 times a week from Oct thru Dec. is the absolute desire to go one on one with the greates game animal on the planet - the mature whitetail buck.

In over 20 yrs of hunting I have never shot at a doe, never even considered it. For me they are just a different ballgame.

I wish I did have a desire to shoot does, I would have had many, many more successful hunts. I have good friends that get just as exited shooting a doe as I do when I get my buck - you have no idea how much I envy them. I can go for months without taking a shot while every one else is high fiving each other every other night.

You Meat hunters can slam me all you want, I consider myself no better than a doe hunter (to be honest I don't care what the heck you shoot), I don't shoot them because I don't want too.

I am a lousy population control tool. If that is the main reason why I should hunt then I guess I am a "slob" hunter. But I have never thought of myself as a "tool"

I could care less about "meat in the freezer". If that is the main reason why I should hunt then I guess I am a super "slob" hunter.

I hunt for the experience, the challenge, the huge amount of work and desipline it requires to reach your goal (whatever goal that may be). And for that huge rush I get when I see a deer (any deer), and the overwhelming sence of satisfation and pride when everything comes together and I am standing over my deer.

Some may argue I am a trophy hunter, but I don't see it that way. My trophies are no more important to me, than the next guys doe is to him. Trophies have nothing to do with the "trophy itself", all its meaningfullness comes from the effort and desire one has, and the road he travels to get there.

We are all on the road as bowhunters, Aren't we?