What’s this “shooting does late in the season is shooting her babies too”. So now you can only shoot a doe before she’s impregnated? You’re still preventing that doe from reproducing. Can’t shoot fawns. Can’t shoot button bucks. Can’t shoot any buck under 6 points because you’re not letting them grow. What are we supposed to kill? P&Y mature bucks only? What does respect for hunting, wildlife, and nature have to do with the size or gender of the deer you’re killing? Folks that discriminately kill deer for crop protection are somehow disrespectful to the animals?

There were 17,000 plus deer taken in Virginia last season duringarchery. Some 243,000 taken with a muzzleloader, during general gun, and property owner tags. 35,000 plus were killed by automobiles. TWICE the number taken in the archery season, and almost 100 deer daily. How many were wounded during the hunting season that died and were never recovered? How many poached? How many taken by other predators? Couldn’t guess. This, out of a population that is estimated at 1 million. Guess what? The population is still estimated at 1 million for 2008. If a particular state regulates, or started to regulate the number of does taken, I’d willingly and gladly adhere to the law. Until then, why would it concern anyone what people legally kill to put in their freezer?

In the end, it doesn’t matter what we kill as bow hunters, because the gun fellas and their dogs are going to kill everything that moves come gun season here in Virginia. They try to spare button bucks. TRY! You guys from Michigan, aren’t there some 700,000 licenses issued during the gun season there?Kill a fawn, good on ya! Pass on a fawn, good on ya!Kill a fawn with a bow, good on ya! Shoot aP&Y buck at 150 yards withan.06, good on ya! The only ethics and morals I see in deer hunting, regardless of the weapon, is making horrible shots, tresspassing,poaching, and having no regard for the land you hunt on. I've actually found entire ungutted deer carcasses in dunpsters with the heads cut off. They got their trophy though!