YES! This long haired freaky person deffinitly thinks so.
I've had to to deer damage control hunting, have fed my large family with venison for many years. Even my son who has downs syndrom, is 23 and loves to eat will tell you that a young doe is the best venison. A nubber buck isn't quiet as good and any doe is better eating than most any buck. I say I got a buck, he says yummmmm sausage. I say I got a young doe, he says yummmm steak. I say older doe, he says yummmm roast. The kid knows his venison. lol
Read any history about people who hunted to live such as American Indians. The choice meat is the younger smaller deer. Choice hides were the younger smaller deer. The older the tougher the meat and hide. Bucks hide and meat both tougher than doe of the same age and season.
Unlike veal though deer get exersize and there isn't much difference between the meat of a spotted fawn or yearling except that a yearling has a lot more meat. I won't shoot a spotted fawn opening weekend but come Oct. any fawns still nursing are better off in my freezer with there mothers than becoming coyote and wolf bait. A harsh winter, they won't make it. I will shoot the doe first and the fawn if I can. I've seen coyote eat an orfinned fawn alive and won't let that happen again if I can help it. Not pretty but it's reality. If I got to kill it, might as well grill it, the smallest deer is still more meat than the largest rabbit. At least here in Wisconsin. lol I went deer hunting in Fla. and I think some of our rabbits are bigger up here than the deer are down there. I shot a 40 lbs deer down there that was 4 years old. Go figure. They must weigh about 1 lb at birth?
In an overpopulated area such as the area I hunt, taking yearlings is needed and I don't mind filling that roll. Somebody has too. I don't condem trophy hunters, to each is there own. Fact is, the younger the deer, the better the meat. Doe is better than buck at any age but old doe can be as tough as a young buck. Yearlings doe that field dress at about 60-100 lbs are absolute best eating. Any smaller makes little difference, might as well let them grow another month or two unless you're trying to prevent crop damage. Then, the smaller the deer, the more crop damage you prevent.
I heard a guy say he shot a bambi and let it lay after shooting the mother. What a waist and disrespectful. More human than coyote but still a waist. Put a $15 tag on it and call it a big tasty meal. I've got a lot more respect for a hot meal than any set of antlers hanging on the wall. If my sausage meat happens to also have a nice rack, then maybe, but I don't hunt just to put antlers on the wall. That would be disrespectfull to the deer. I'd rather the best looking bucks get a chance to breed the most, if I have to take a buck, I try to take an ugly young one. Knowing I stopped that bloodline is my trophy. My favorite rack is an ugly 6 pointer with a perfect 4 point side and an ugly 2 pointed hook on the other. Now that he's gone and the pretty buck rules, the yearling bucks have gotten better looking racks, the doe are closer to numbers with the bucks and all is well in the woods.
It takes all kinds to make the world go around, even long haired freaky people who hunt deer for venison for him and his family to live on. Yes, people still actaully hunt deer for meat, call me a wack but, that's just me.