ORIGINAL: Sliverflicker
ORIGINAL: TJF
ORIGINAL: shed33
Never, less Iwas starving. But before anyone blows a gasket, I say this because we dont have high deer densities in these mountains, every doe fawn that can make it to their 2nd birthday,I am happy for her, because shes lucky to avoid the mt.lions, wolves, bearsand yotes that run this country.
I'll shoot a big buck,bear, cow elk or bull elk to help fill the freezer; they have a lot more meat on them anyway..
If I lived where deer populations needed thinning, I'd be glad to fill those antlerless tags.. but honestly I have a hard time shooting youngsters, I'd believe I target/shoot a mature does..
Silverflicker
One winter Tylerand I quit counting after hitting 300 pluswinter killed fawns while shed hunting. If we would have kept counting... the number would have been close to twice that. The coyotes couldn'teat them all and most rotted that spring. I kept thinking what a waste. Granted it was a badwinter but itis not auncommon to find50 -100during tough winters. Since" most " hunterswill not kill a fawn... there are a lot running around towards the end of bow season.If I have a tagthat late in the seasonthen doe fawns are fairgame. One less possiblewinter kill that goes to waste.
Read the post I quoted above. Troy is a great friend which I respect and mean no disrespect. If it were me in a low population situation likeTroy's... I wouldn't shoot a mature doe period.I would rather shoot a doefawn all though I doubt I would even do that.A fawnis less likely tosurvive due to the reasonsTroy listed. Amature doe is more likely to survive winter/predators to producefawns the next year. Too mepassing a mature doe at all costsis good for a low population. I wouldn't bank on the fawn.
I've got my reasons... you, Troy and everyone else has theirs. Really is no right and wrong.
Tim
I have also seen the winter kills up here Tim, But it was back when our deer numbers were highand years with extremely bad winters when the snow had froze to ice and the browse lines were eaten up so high they could not get tofood standing on their hind legs. But those years are long gone here.
My post was not to offend anyone that sees reason to shoot young deer, but to make a point that an open public forum is no place to boast about killing Bambi or a place to look for justification in doing so. If anyone took time to look through my posts they would see most of them is me giving my congrats to those that have posted pic's of yes even button bucks.
I was going to ignore this thread completely till it hit 20 pages and figured it was just a matter of time till some uncle Ted wannabe posted a picture of a 30 pounder cut in half with a Rage.
I have a hard enough time with the non hunting public justifying our bow season.
Thanks for the polite post Tim, like you said there is no right or wrong, but there is a time and place for such things and I dont see this being it.
I see were you are coming from now. I've alway enjoyed your posts and that one caught me by surprise. Thanks for the reply to clarify!!
Tim