RE: small deer
Why not? Those 57lb doe are excellent to eat. I have eaten deer that are yearlings and have ate deer that are 6 year old mountain deer that tasted like sawdust.
I kill the ocassional yearling. For some reason, it does hurt me to shoot one with a bow. But I get over it pretty quick eating it. Usually its a situation where I have to take a doe on state parks before I can shoot a buck. So if it walks with no horns, it gets an arrow. Then onto some more serious hunting. If I don't get any bucksall the way thru bow, muzzleloader and then back to gun, you bet I pop me small doe in the late bow season. I got to eat.