A couple of years ago, I used one of my doe tags to harvest a crippled doe with only one working back leg. I was pleased about that and wanted to use my other tag on another crippled doe in a different area that was even in worse shape. I got very close to this targeted deer on numerous occasions, but never got her--passed up plenty of others in the attempt.

IN THIS CASE---if I were given a high percentage opportunity on <u>my own property</u>, I would feel obligated to put the deer down if I was sure it was going to die or suffer terribly for the rest of it's life. As for the meat and rack--why should it be left to rot even though the circumstances surrounding the harvest are different. Illegal? --probably. Ethical? --DEFINITELY.

Today's small bucks are tomorrow's trophies.