ORIGINAL: racewayking
ORIGINAL: bowtechben
If you are planning to shoot a doe in your area this year, this may be the perfect one.
A. By November, the yearlings are able to take care of themselves.
B. If one of the yearlyings is a buck, which odds are it is, this may keep this buck in your area. Meaning the mother won't be around to drive him off to seek a new home range. If you want to let something walk it is him for the next 3 years.
I say if you are looking to kill a doe, this is the ideal situation.
Would you say that the yearlings seeing their mother get shot wouldn't cause them to move off the area? This is where I have always been curious, does a yearling that witnesses the death of another deer stay in the area or leave in fear of the area?
NO.In fact just the opposite is true the yearlings will hang around and most likly stay in the area.In fact if you are looking to fill your tag fast kill the adult doe and the yearing will come back looking for her for a least a day.I would'nt kill the yearling if it was a button buck,but I did kill a doe one morning with a yearling in toe,went back to that same stand for the evening hunt and the yearling hung around all afternoon,this has occured on two different occasions.